Week by Week Series - Week 26

Are you ready for another week? Here’s what we did in our library times last week.

With my “littles,” we read Make Way for Ducklings and One Boy. For their activity I had them complete a coloring page from LiBEARy Skills Grades K-3 on proper library behavior. They had made books with their teacher so while they were coloring, I walked around and let them read their books to me.

I read Verdi and Round Like a Ball to my kinder kids before our discussion about the difference between fiction and non fiction. After check out they completed a coloring page where they had to determine if the figure was fiction or non-fiction. I copied the page out of LiBEARy Skills Grades K-3.

I did a fiction vs. non fiction assignment for the first graders as well. We first read an old classic Bread and Jam for Francis. Their assignment was a worksheet I found on the Great Schools web site. It had four book covers and the students needed to determine by the title and pictures on the cover if the book should go in the fiction or non fiction column.

We continued our work with information found on the title page in the second grade. After reading out of a chapter book from the Imagination Station series, and encouraging the students to check it out if they wanted to hear the ending, we reviewed what information is found on the title page. This week I had a stack of books on each table and the students could pick from the stack to complete the worksheet. My worksheet asks for the basics – title, author, illustrator, place of publication, and publisher in addition to copyright, which can be a little challenging for the kiddos to find. If you’d like to get a copy of my worksheet for this activity, you can get it here when you sign up for my newsletter.

I continued last week’s lessons with my third and fifth graders. After reading to them from a chapter book (Dear Mr. Henshaw for third grade and Best Family Ever for fifth grade) we reviewed Almanacs. Then I had them continue on the worksheets from Hooked on Library Skills. The third graders finished theirs with time left so I had them look up New Mexico and write down 3 facts about our state.

After listening to part of Calico Bush, my fourth graders continued their work on the Dewey Decimal System. I used a worksheet I found at The Go Mom web site. I think they are starting to understand how to match book titles to subject areas and then Dewey numbers.

Wednesday we celebrated Read Across America Day. Each March our county enlists volunteers to read to students in elementary schools around the county. They also get grant money to purchase Dr. Seuss trinkets for the kids and books for the school library (and librarians get to choose the titles they want). Our readers this year were 3 students from New Mexico State University. I’d love to hear how you celebrated Read Across America Day. Emily from El Paso, who shares Dr. Seuss’ birthday, is a Kinesiology senior. Brittany from Farmington is a sophomore studying Animal Science. Alex from Colorado is a Mechanical Engineering senior. It was great to have these young people serve as role models for our students in the area of reading. Our elementary students were divided into three sessions and one of the college students read The Sneetches in each session.

Fifth grade came again this week to work on their Ancient Africa project. You can find a list of the books we used below. They also came to finish their research on their Internet Mysteries project – next week they will be putting this presentations together during their computer time and then returning to the library on Friday to make their presentations.

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Make Way for Ducklings

One Boy

Verdi

Round Like a Ball

Bread and Jam for Frances (I Can Read Level 2)

Imagination Station Series – Adventures in Odyssey – Set of 15 – Volumes 1-15 Including Surprise at Yorktown, Captured on the High Seas, the Redcoats Are Coming, Danger on a Silent Night,and more

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Hooked on Library Skills: A Sequential Activities Program for Grades K-6

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2019

Calico Bush

Best Family Ever (A Baxter Family Children Story)

The Sneetches and Other Stories