As much hands-on as you can. The more I talk to them and explain things,
the more kids I lose. I have collected a pile of objects and ask the kids
to put them in one of the ten categories (posters I made with kid
translations of the subjects in each). It has taken several years to find
good objects. Tag sales in the summer get a lot of them. I'll give you a
list when I get to school if you want.
Maybe having them go to the selves and figure out what is in each
division. I give a bag of books (nonfic) with as many different subjects
as possible (collected from damaged, too old or donations that I can't use)
each bag has at least 10 books in it and I ask each team to create two
different ways to put them on a shelf, assuming that each book stands for
5-10 books on the same topic.
I start this whole unit with my mind reading performance. I ask a child to
pick out a book from a crate of them in the front. I make a big thing of
getting in tune with each volunteer (looking into their eyes, so I can
align with the brainwaves) and of keeping my eyes closed while they pick a
book. When they have a book I ask them the color of the front, the first
letter of the author's name, how many words on the spince and oh by the
way, what is on the spine label... Then I tell them what the book is
about. If some wise guy says I've memorized all the books in the box, I
ask him to go to the shelves of the Number section (I refuse to call it
"Nonfiction" for a whole bunch of reasons).
\Johanna
Johanna Halbeisen, Library Teacher
Woodland Elemetary School
Southwick, MA 01077
JH@newsonglibrary.org
Original Message:
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From: Katie Farrington kmfarrington@GMAIL.COM
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:15:10 -0500
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: ELEM: Dewey Decimal Lessons
Hi All,
I know there are some hits posted in the archives, but most of the links
contained in them are out of date.
This past week I reviewed Dewey with my 3rd graders--we looked at a
powerpoint on the basics of the 10 sections and practiced using a sheet
called Dewey Decimal Number for Kids as I held up some books and asked which
section they belonged in. Over the next two weeks, I would like to continue
this discussion doing sections 000-599 this coming week and sections 600-999
the following week. What I am looking for is an interesting/exciting way to
do this since I think my powerpoint presentation almost bored the kids to
death. I would prefer something that does not involve powerpoint or too much
use of a computer. And I think I am being observed this week (although I
don't know which grade level).
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Katie Farrington
Media Specialist, grades 2-3
Hess Educational Complex
Mays Landing, NJ
kmfarrington@gmail.com
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