Many thanks to all who responded. You've helped save
my sanity!
Melissa Askew
Media Specialist
Tarrant Elementary School
Tarrant, AL
heymist@yahoo.com
Here are some ideas...
Demco makes a display using Mr.
Wiggles, a character who tells children
how
they should treat books. There
is also a book that goes along with it.
I made a poster called "Good
Library Citizenship" and listed the
library
rules. I plan on discussing that
with the children.
The librarian I did my student
teaching under does a little skit the
second
meeting. She dresses up in a lab
coat with a stethoscope and she
gathers her
pile of damaged books. She uses
an accent and she "diagnoses" the books
problem. Each child gets a
popsicle stick with a happy face on one side
and a
sad face on the other. She
reviews good and bad book treatment. For
example,
She'll say, "Leave your books
out in the rain." The students when then
show
her the sad face side of the
popsicle stick.
Here are some great books to start the year with:
First Day Jitters by Dannenberg
(sp?)
A Fine Fine School by Creech
Mr. Wiggle's Book by Craig
The Library Dragon by Leedy
The Librarian from the Black
Lagoon by Thaler
Definitely use Miss Bindergarten gets ready for
Kindergarten (though
check
to be sure the K teacher isn't
already using it.
The Library Dragon is my
favorite for gr. 1.
Caldecott award winner A Story,
A Story retold by---Gale E. Haley, is
great because of the beginning
and ending little couplet about story
telling, Phrases such as
"children gathered round my knee" and "a
story, a
story, let it come, let it go"
set the tone I want with my youngsters.
And
of course it starts the year by
telling the folk tale of how the
stories
came to the world.
In response to a request from a new LMS, elementary
library media
> specialists in my county have
suggested the following books for K-2
> orientations:
>
> The Library
> Library Dragon
> Library 'Lil
> Walter's Magic Wand
> Stella Louella's Runaway Book
> Red Light, Green Light, Mama
and Me
> Blue Bug Goes to the Library
> I Took My Frog to the Library
>
> Can You Guess Where We're
Going? by Elvira Wood is a new one about
> going to a public library.
>
> I sometimes read books that
are about reading too, like
>
> Fix-It by David McPhail (good
for K)
> Wolf! by Becky Bloom (good for
1-2)
> More Than Anything Else
(Booker T. Washington will be studied by gr.
3
> later in the year)
> Aunt Chip and the Great Triple
Creek Dam Affair (4th, maybe 5th)and
>
> Alistair in Outer Space
>
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