Hit: Library Centers

[Carolyn Gundrum <webmistress@MIKIDS.COM>]

This year, I am organizing centers in my library around the Lewis and Clark
Exploration.

I have 8 centers with 3 -  4 students at each:
The centers use:

  The Thesaurus;
The Atlas and mapping;
Math problem;
French-English dictionary (online);
The Almanac;
Reading for facts about Seaman (the newfie);
Drawing a picture of Seaman;
Gathering Bibliographic information from books;

I have the fifth grade worksheets finished...now I have to create a set for
third and fourth grade.

My classes are 50 minutes each. I teach keyboarding for the first 15, then
the kids come into the library and do centers! They LOVE them! I created
centers last year for the book, The Phoenix and the Carpet by Nesbit.

I am going  to put the worksheets into a booklet for each student to take
from center to center.

If you would like a copy of my finished 5th grade sheets,  please contact
me offline, and if there is a lot of interest, I will post them on my
website for anyone to use.

Cheers,

Carolyn






At 05:35 PM 7/16/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I am trying to work on making library time better for the two schools I
>work at, both are K-6.  I teach 29 classes per week, including 4 spec. ed
>classes.  I've gone into the archives and found some great advice on K-2
>centers and spec ed lessons but I have a couple of questions.
>
>First, I have purchased a lot of puppets, domino-type games (opposites,
>abc, matching, etc), puzzles, dress-up clothes, library related games and
>I want to set up centers for the K-2 classes using some of the ideas I've
>gotten, but I'm not sure how the students use the centers.  After I have
>read them their story and they've checked out their books, do I allow them
>to choose which center they go to or do I have them draw numbers/colors
>out of a hat which allows 4-5 students at a table.  Most of my classes are
>20-25 students and in one school I have 5 tables and 6 in the other.  I
>also thought one center could be some computer games, again I have 3
>computers in one school and 6 in the other.  In order to make it "fair"
>how do you rotate what center each student goes to each week?  I have k
>and 1 for 30 minutes and 2 for 40.  I would like to try something like
>this with the older students.  What I have done for the past 1.5 years
>I've been a public school librarian is to have word searches, crossword
>puzzles,
>and some other activity sheets for the 3-6th grade.  I find after my 20
>minute lesson, there are some students that get into trouble if they
>aren't checking out any books (their choice).  I have some students that
>NEVER check out any books.  I've tried harder activity sheets, but they
>only seem to want the word searches, sometimes they'll do crosswords.
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thank you.
>
>Wendy Carroll
>Library Media Specialist
>Ridgefield Park, NJ
>Grant (T&Th)
>Lincoln (M-W-F)
>
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Carolyn I Gundrum, B.Ed (UBC)  M.A. (WMU)
Technology-Teacher-Librarian,
Waukazoo Elementary School,
1294 W. Lakewood Blvd.,
Holland, Michigan USA 49424

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