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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
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