Amberly Media Center

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.