Amberly Media Center

Kindergarten

Freymann. Fast Food.
Timmers. Who Is Driving?
Willems. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

First Grade

Montes. Los Gatos Black on Halloween.
Ancona. Pablo Remembers.
Pilkey. The Hallo-Wiener.

Second Grade

Yolen. Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid.

Third Grade

“Green Ghosts” in Yolen. Here There Be Ghosts.
Also mentioned Bruce Coville’s books, The Ghost Wore Gray, The Ghost in the Third Row, and The Ghost in [...]

Kindergarten

Arnosky. Every Autumn Comes the Bear.
Ehlert. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf.
Fleming. Time to Sleep.
Shecter. When Will the Snow Trees Grow?

 First Grade

Van Allsburg. The Stranger.

 Second Grade

Yolen. Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid.

“Are you a gifted child looking for Special Opportunities?”
Eleven-year-old Reynie is one of several children who answer this unusual newspaper ad only to find that the tests they must take are stranger still. In the end only four children pass the tests: Reynie, Sticky, and Constance. Their mission: to spy on what goes on at [...]

Kindergarten

Shannon. No, David!
Shannon. David Goes to School.
Bruel. Who Is Melvin Bubble?

First Grade

Davidson. Princess Justina Albertina.
Burningham. Edwardo, the Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World.

Second Grade

McEwan. Rufus the Scrub Does Not Wear a Tutu.

I can’t remember the exact history of this activity….I know I “borrowed” the idea from Nancy Atwell or my East Lansing colleague, Mimi Cecil. The idea is to encourage students to try books they might not otherwise pick-up. Instead of selecting a book based on the cover illustration or jacket blurb, students actually read for [...]

In addition to 12 desktop computer stations we are fortunate to also have a cart of laptops for use in the media center. This makes teaching a lesson on research sites to an entire class much easier. However, laptops have a few drawbacks, so we take time in 2nd grade to learn about their use [...]

Here’s another addition to the “what to read next” list. The first book in Angie Sage’s Septimus Heap series is called Magyk and readers shouldn’t worry that the title character appears to be dead right from the start. Many of the characters are not exactly who they seem to be in the beginning. If your [...]