Pre-K, K, and 1st: As far as I can tell, every student is familiar with Dora the Explorer and the library just happens to have a print version of Dora's Pirate Adventure. These younger students had a blast treating the book just like the TV show - calling for the "MAP" and the "BACKPACK" and singing with the Singing Bridge and then singing "Row Row Row Your Boat" the right way to teach the Bridge what the words really are.
Dora asks the audience to count to seven in Spanish at one point, and I was amazed at how many students raised their hands to do so. And they could say their numbers in Spanish! And they sounded like they had the best accents - much better than mine. I was impressed.
2nd and 3rd grade classes were introduced to the Melinda Long/David Shannon collaboration of How I became a pirate and Pirates don't change diapers. We read How I became a pirate together. It was a wonderful book to read and we analyzed the pictures to figure out everything that was going on. Afterwards, the students worked on a worksheet that was about the letter P and Pirates. The "Wednesday Word" was "trace" and the students traced the letter P over and over on their worksheet.
It seems like the 4th and 5th graders haven't been having many library times in the past two weeks due to play practice and testing, among other things. When we do get together, we are moving on with "Library Wars" and learning about the catalog and locating books. With the classes I do have, we go over the information and work on the worksheets before we check out books.
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