GINGERBREAD

 

The theme of the 12th 6-day cycle is GINGERBREAD MEN. 

 

The library was decorated with the BIGGEST gingerbread people Miss Jennifer and I could make. 

 

 

 

 

In K and First grades, the students watch a brief animation of  The Gingerbread Man read by actor John Krasinski.  

 

 

Gingerbread Man Loose in School was the book chosen for 2nd and 3rd grades.  Afterwards we made a gingerbread man to look exactly like the one in the book....which was illustrated by Mike Lowery. 

 

 

The 4th and 5th grades went to the story pit to be read stories. The 4th grade listened to The Library Gingerbread Man and the fifth grade listened to/saw the Gingerbread Man Superhero! - both books by Dotti Enderle.  And they were both AWESOME.  The Library Gingerbread Man was also an introduction to the Dewey Decimal System. 

 
                                        

back from Thanksgiving 2012

After Thanksgiving, the Library returned to "normal" lesson plans. PreK heard Little Bear's Special Friend by Claire Freedman; illustratrated by Dubravka Kolanovic. During check out time, they were given a snowman template to color/design, and created a snowman on the back so that they had the two friends together.

Grades K and 1 were introducted to the Caldecott Medal winner for 2012:

After discussing what a Caldecott Medal was all about, we sat down to "read" this picture book without words. Afterwards, the students made their own picture books and were given "Caldecott Medals" to cut out and past on their book if they worked hard on it and did a good job.


           
The second grade was introduced to author Cynthia Rylant as we read the first two books in the "Mr. Putter and Tabby" series. The books were a big hit (rightly so!) and many second graders checked out other books in the series when we done.


We finished up our leaf man projects in the 3rd grade.

Grade 4, along with Grade 5, worked on worksheets that will teach them how to use the catalog and another worksheet on "call numbers". We are still working on the call number/locating a book concept in 4th and 5th grades.

Thanksgiving in the library, 2012. TURKEYS!!

The 10th 6-day cycle was all about turkeys.


In PreK, we read The Best Thanksgiving Book and worked on a turkey coloring page.

In Kindergarten we read Dave Pilkey's  'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving and colored turkey pages.


The first grade made turkeys by coloring a circle (the feathers) and a head, neck, and legs.

 In the 2nd grade, we made pilgrim paper dolls.  It was a lot of fun and they turned out great.  Nobody wanted to leave theirs in the library for decorations - they all wanted to take theirs home with them.

Grades 3-5 worked together in groups of approximately 6 to make a "Mr. Potato Head Turkey."  As a group, they had to decide which "parts" they were going to use, what eyes, what hair, whether the turkey was a boy or a girl.  The story pit was covered in turkeys when we were done. Here's a picture of the story pit as the turkeys were being created: