Children’s Book Wee is almost here. As part of that celebration, some of my classes will be participating in the Children’s Choice Award voting process. With my littles, kinders, and first graders this week we read three of the books on the list: Day at the Beach, There’s a Dragon in Your Book, and I Say Ooh. After book check out, they had a few minutes to build with our KEVA Structures 200 Plank Set
I also read these titles with my second graders. When they finished, we complete another worksheet on the index of a book from Teaching Library Media Skills in Grades K-6: A How-To-Do-It Manual and CD-ROM
We continued with the Land of Enchantment titles with the third and fourth graders. The one title in our collection we had not yet read was The Book of Mistakes. The students really didn’t enjoy this title all that much. After we read, we moved on to a review of shelf order with the third graders. I had them complete a worksheet from the old LiBEARy Skills K-3 which is no longer in print. The fourth grade played a game I created, that I call “Are You Smarter Than a Librarian?” I took the 100 DDS classifications and put them on cards – number and category (590 Zoological Sciences). My assistant reads the category and the team has to give the correct “100’s” (Zoological Sciences would be 500). The students work in teams, competing against each other and against me. There was actually one team that tied with me this time. In the several years we have played this with the kids, I have yet to be beat. I usually try to give the more specific number, but I can’t always. Have you ever played a game like this against your kiddos?
We continued reading Best Family Ever with the fifth grade. I’m not sure we will finish it during library time, but the classroom teacher is willing to finish it with them. It has taken more time than I anticipated to read it aloud.
Our book fair from i55 Fundraising arrived on Wednesday. Thanks to several teachers who were willing to have their students help, we went from the first picture to the second in less than 15 minutes without me lifting a box. And I had help from middle schoolers and high schoolers in the afternoon to get it all set up.
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