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.