Amberly Media Center

Kindergarten

• Seeger. Abiyoyo.
• Kroll. Big Jeremy.

First Grade

• Houghton. Walter’s Magic Wand.
• Slater. The Sea Serpent and Me.

Second Grade

• Speck. Mable Goes to Tea.

Oh no! A tornado hit the Amberly Elementary Media Center and all the books are on the floor. They need to be sorted, but where do we begin?

2nd graders agreed that we should first separate the Fiction from the Non Fiction. We first decided that Fiction books tell a story. The story could be “realistic” or it could be “make-believe.” Either way, we agreed the author wrote the story to entertain the reader. Non Fiction books are written to provide information. Non Fiction books give facts about a subject.

When we sorted the books, we found some of them were tricky. Some of the books told a story AND gave information. Some of the Non Fiction books gave information about things that might or might not be true like Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and ghosts.

Kindergarten

• Silverstein. The Giving Tree.
• Sherry. I’m the Best Artist in the Ocean.

First Grade

• Sherry. I’m the Best Artist in the Ocean.
• Williams. Library Lil.

Second Grade

• Speck. Maybelle Goes to Tea.

September 11-19

How do we identify books? We look on the cover and expect to find the name of the author, possibly the name of the illustrator, and also the name of the book or the title. These are the first three words on our library media word wall.

For practice, each student created the cover of a book of their own design. They put their own name in place of the author. They created an descriptive title. They also added a cover illustration.

Next we “shelved” these books by author’s last name. Then on that shelf, students found four other books by authors that have a last name with the same first letter and recorded the authors’ names and the books’ titles on a worksheet.

We also learned that titles and authors’ names are usually capitalized.

Kindergarten

• Brandenberg. Fresh Cider and Pie.
• Hall. The Apple Pie Tree. (583 Ha)
• Scheer. Rain Makes Applesauce.

First Grade

• McPhail. Edward in the Jungle.
• McPhail. Edward and the Pirates.

Second Grade

• Speck. Maybelle Goes to Tea.

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Second Graders at Amberly come to the media center twice each week.

On Monday or Thursday, classes come for book checkout and a story. Books are chosen to expose students to a variety of genres and literary terms that they will be using throughout their school years and that they will encounter on the MEAP.

On Tuesday or Wednesday, classes come for media lessons. We began by reading Toni Buzzeo’s book, Our Librarian Won’t Tell Us Anything!  (Mr. Butts’ has a hard time with this, but he’s trying!) The Second Graders agreed that if they could master all of the skills needed to use the library, they would become Library Ninjas.

Second Graders learn how books are identified, arranged and shelved by author, title and subject. They will learn how to use InfoCentre, the district’s online library catalog system. They will also learn how to use the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Later in the year they will also begin using the online encyclopedia, an online database, and an internet directory.

Kindergarten:

• Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are.
• Kimmel. I Took My Frog to the Library.
• Cummins. Inside Outside Book of Libraries.

First Grade:

• Bunting. Our Library.
• Shaw. Raccoon Tune.