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Thanks so much to all who sent ideas. For the sake of brevity I tried to summarize your ideas as follows: Suggested read alouds: "The Library Dragon" by Carmen Deedy, "Cannon the Librarian", "Once in the Library", "Book! Book! Book!" by Bruss, and "Librarian From the Black Lagoon", Mr. Wiggle's Book", "Libeary", "YO Yes", "No David", "Sammy and Sophia's Library Sleep Over", "I Took My Frog to the Library" Ideas for Read Alouds by grade Level: K - "Mr. Wiggle's Book" and posters by Demco, "Yo Yes" ( how to treat friends with how to treat books like friends) 1st - "No David" (followed by use of the "NO NO Never" box discussed previously-check archives), "Sammy and Sophia's Library Sleepover" 2nd - "Officer Buckle and Gloria" (with kids writing library tips on stars to post in the media center), "First Day Jitters" Jeanne Claridge reviewed library manners and also used the video "What is a Media Center?" Meridian Corp. But with her 2nd graders she read "I took my frog to the library" by Eric Kimmel, using stuffed animals for kids to take to the places shown in the book and for other kids to retrieve them and bring them back to her. For 4th grade she used the video and did area location review. For 5th she used the video with the study guide and area location. She also went over policies and requirements for grading. 6th same as 5th. Anne Alatalo read some of the above books but followed with these things: Third through fifth have scavenger hunts to remind them of the different parts of the library. (e.g., How many magazines do we subscribe to? Find a book in the fiction section that has an animal in its title. Find a book in the 700s. What is it about? Use the search station to find a book by Suzy Kline. Look in the easy section for a book by Cynthia Rylant. How can you recognize a reference book? Sabine Rogers has games pertaining to the library out. The students walk around and review the areas. As a group they listed those areas, or/and played 20 questions about the list. Diannne Gibbons had activities built around a book and a bear named "Libeary". He helps to tell the behavior rules for the library and then gummy bears are handed out as a reminder of the rules and of their visit. Jokay Greer reviews the rules, by having the kids tell the rules. She shows where the new books are, reads, and reviews check out procedures so that the students will be ready to check out books the next visit. Robin Boltz has a Power Point presentation for library orientation that includes why we need rules in the library, 4 library rules, what happens when you break the rules, and a tour (with the lights out) using a flashlight focusing on each area of the media center. The flashlight helped to highlight those areas and the kids called out the names of those areas. Great review! Mary Ziller read some of the books above, went over rules, book care, and focused on pointing out sections with books by their favorite authors. Janet Johns had lots of great ideas and read many of the books above. She included lesson plans for a first grade lesson as follow up to "Sammy and Sophie's Library Sleep Over". In her lesson plan, by have children take turns pulling items out of a paper bag and stating whether it was good for a book or not, they had a discussion on how library books are treated. Items in the bag: sink - wash hands-good Bookcase- store properly-good crayon-write in books-bad dog-let eat book-bad baby-rip book-bad backpack- carry properly-good dirt-dirty hands-bad shoe-walk on books-bad House-don't leave outside-good Umbrella-keep book dry-good And I thought of one to add: bookmark-use instead of folding pages-good She also had the idea about blending "Y0 YES" and friendship, to book care. Doug Alichwer had the idea of making a library map with a color key and having them color the different areas. He also starts working on fiction/nonfiction, putting things in order (ABC order by names) or Dewey (by numbers, etc.) He suggested putting fiction call numbers on half of a 3x5 card. Do enough so each student has about 8 to 10 cards. Let them arrange them in order, then have the table of students arrange all their cards into one group. Do the same for the Dewey numbers. Mariya Rodriguez (for 2nd-5th) makes a big green paper tail and attaches it to herself and reads "The Library Dragon" book. She ties this in to library procedures and says just the threat of a tail showing up keeps most students eager to comply. For pre-k to 1st she reads "Mr. Wiggle's Book" and talks about how to handle books. Alice Clark suggested a book she says is fabulous for new Media S people: "Where Do I Start? A Media Specialist's Handbook" Frances Knight says do the same thing as any other day after you let them know the basic rules and where things are. Sandie Ruckman Library Media Specialist Elem FSUSD Fairfield, Ca wwjdruckman@aol.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml See also EL-Announce for announcements from library media vendors: http://www.mindspring.com/~el-announce/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=