Welcome to the 6th week of library story times and checkout. This week's lesson is introducing the parts of a book and a refresher as to where you can find the author and illustrator's names on the book. (You can find them on the front cover, the spine, and the title page.) 1st grade is preparing for to start checking out from the shelves next week. We are talking about the spine label having an E on the top row for the Everybody section, and then the first 3 letters of the authors last name on the bottom row. They are starting to understand that we shelve books by the authors last name, so to look for the letter the last name starts with to find the series or authors they like.
Our read aloud this week is The Bear In My Family by Maya Tatsukawa. It is a great story about how the narrator has a bear living in their house. The parents treat it like it is a family member, but the narrator thinks it is too loud and messy. What could make our narrator change their mind about the bear in their family? It is also a SCPBA nominee.
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Welcome to the 5th week of library story times and checkout. This week's lesson is introducing the parts of the book and checkout.
Our read aloud this week is Ronan The Librarian by Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie. It is a great story about how you don't have to stay the same. You can grow and change and try new things. It is also a SCPBA nominee. Welcome to the 4th week of library story times and checkout. The students are learning a song about the author and illustrators' jobs and we sing it each week before our read aloud. This week is our review of the jobs that authors and illustrators do and where to find their names on a book, and then checkout.
Our read aloud this week is The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds September 15th is International Dot Day which celebrates art and "making your mark." Be proud of what you do and let life inspire you to do great things and encourage others. We have a great display of art that kindergarteners and 1st graders have been inspired to draw/color. Welcome to the third week of library story times and checkout. It is a short week, but we are moving and grooving in the library. Most of our students have now learned our author and illustrator songs we sing each week before reading. They know the author writes the words of the book and the illustrator draws the pictures from the songs, but we will be going more into depth on their specific jobs and where to find their names on books in the coming weeks.
Our read aloud this week is If You Come To Earth by Sophie Blackall. It is a great story where Quinn gives possible visitors an instruction manual about Earth and its inhabitants. This is also the week I introduce the South Carolina Picture Book Award Nominees to our students. If you do not know about these awards, you can find out more information here. While we won't be able to read all of the award nominees, we will get to most of them before 4K, K, 1st, and 2nd vote on their favorites. We will get a school winner and then I will share the vote tally's with the SC Association of School Librarians so that our votes can be added to the rest of the votes from South Carolina to come up with our state winner who will receive the coveted SCPBA Winner sticker to place on the fronts of their book. |
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