Heading toward Halloween

We are just finishing up this year's 7th six-day resource rotation and starting the 8th, which takes us just past Halloween.              

During the 7th "week":

PreK - After reading Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog by Mo Willems, the class colored a Pigeon and Duckling coloring page while we checked out books in small groups.

K and 1st grades renewed their acquaintance (or met for the first time!) Curious George as we read Curious George goes to the library.  Afterwards, while taking turns checking out books in small groups, the classes made their own Curious George bookmarks - which involved coloring, cutting, and visualizing the finished product.  All the bookmarks will be laminated and returned next time.

We started reading Horrible Harry in classroom 2B in the 2nd grades.  Chapter 2 of this book is "Horrible Harry, the Stub People, and Halloween".  Next week, for Halloween, the 2nd grade classes will be making their own "stub people" to invade the library, as Horrible Harry made a stub people army ("the scariest creatures on earth") to "bring doom to the classroom".

3rd grade students reviewed all the parts of a book - inside and outside.  We looked at a powerpoint about four parts inside a book:  The title page, Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index.  After an activity that involved cutting out labels to paste onto a book, they checked out books. This turned out to be a learning opportunity in more ways than one - many, many third graders learned the difference between "illustrator" and "illustration" with this exercise.


4  Fourth grade students went over the sections of the library and reviewed call numbers again.  To practice call numbers and "shelf order", each student wrote a big spine label depicting a Fiction book that they had written and then they got up and put themselves in shelf order (alphabetized by first three letters of the author's last name) as if they were the books on the shelves. 

5 - Making Fiction and Nonfiction "Halloween books" to practice and demonstrate knowlege of call numbers  - and also to decorate for Halloween.  Next time, in addition to reading a Halloween short story, the class will put their "books" into shelf order and "shelve" them on the shelves for their class.  I am labeling rows in the story pit with their teacher's names and whether it is a Fiction or Nonfiction shelf.

For next time: