[LM_NET] Responses question: library time FILLERS at the end of elementary library class

[Julie Ellen Gott <julgott@YAHOO.COM>]

Helllo,
   
  Many People asked me to email them some responses to different library time 
fillers for the end of library class...
   
  Julie Knott ----Unity Elementary Schools Tolono, IL
  julknott@illinoisalumni.org
   
   
  Here are some:       (I have more to send too...) 
   
   
  I have purchased a number of trivia games from bookstores and book fairs in the 
past and pull out questions from time to time. It really gets the class to listen 
and they enjoy answering questions that may not always be about library. You may 
also check with classroom teachers and ask for some of their questions to help the 
students review various subjects.
   
  One strategy that can be fun is to establish a “ticket out the door.” Kids have 
to tell you one new thing they learned or one title they really would recommend, or 
something to show they are leaving the library a little different than when they 
came in. They can be thinking of what their “ticket” will be as they stand in line. 
Then they deliver it to you, orally, on their way past you.
Jane Behrens, Teacher-Librarian
Johnston High School
Johnston, IA 50131
jbehrens@johnston.k12.ia.us
   
  One of the librarians in our district reads a poem when the students
line up... they are quiet because she is reading and they want to hear
the poem. I was planning to give it a try.
"-)

-- 
Janice Conger
Librarian
Arrowhead Elementary
congerjan@gmail.com


    I have the younger students play "show & tell" with their books.  They really 
love to do this.  Another game that kids love is this: Pick a letter in the 
alphabet.  Choose someone to take a guess which one it is.  Respond by telling the 
class that your secret letter comes BEFORE or AFTER that letter.  Let kids take 
turn guessing until someone gets it right. The child who guesses correctly gets to 
choose the next secret letter. This is excellent practice with ABC order and kids 
have to listen carefully to you and each other to be successful.


-- 
Michele Nokleby
Hawthorne Elementary School Librarian
Missoula, MT
mnokleby@gmail.com 



  don't know what grade levels you have, but have you tried things like 
BINGO ( the song) and rhyming games? I talked to my music teacher and 
stole a few of the games?songs she has taught in music to fill a few 
minutes with the little ones. For the older ones, I try doing character 
descriptions and having them guess who/what book these characters are 
from. Hope this helps a little. Happy weekend,
   
  
Some of these are old, so there is no web site that I can give you. I LOVE
this sort of thing as the kids are lining up (and they seem to, also). I am
the Academic Team coach for grades 6-8, so I look at the last several
minutes of class, as the kids are lined up waiting for their teacher, as
fun for them AND "coaching" future prospects for AT.

Most of these are available in Parent/Teacher type stores, online, or maybe
even at garage sales (see below).

*Tot Trivia - PK/Kindergarten Trivia Games, Inc. Bellingham WA 98226
*Junior Trivia - 5-9 years
Language Arts Trivial Pursuit - in card form
Brain Quest card game (there are MANY of these - different ages/genres)
United States flash cards - 7 yr. and up (Golden Step Ahead)
Great Source Education Group - Daily questions in all areas - 
geography/phonics/science/vocabulary/analogies, etc.
www.greatsource.com
*20 Questions for Kids - board game/I just use the questions.
University Games.

*My favorites.

Janelle Quick Simon
Librarian
Christ the King School
412 Cochran Road
Lexington KY 40502
jsimon@ctkschool.cdlex.org
"Read, read, read" - William Faulkner


I am a high school media specialist, but last fall I
had to go to verious schools, at all levels, to
observe. One of the nice things I saw was that the
media specialist had taught the students numerous
songs that had to do with the county wide
Holocaust/tolerance unit - or just cute songs. This
certainly filled the empty time with a fun activitiy.
Carole Walkden
Fort Lauderdale High
Media Specialist
754-322-4450
carole.walkden@browardschools.com

Julie Gott
Unity East Elementary School Librarian
Philo, Illinois
JuLknott@iLLinoisaLumni.org
 
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