Amberly Media Center

Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/index.html
>Symbols of U.S. Government>Bald Eagle
1.The word “bald” does not mean that this bird has no feathers. Instead, it comes from the word piebald, an old word which means “___________________________________________________________.”
>Symbols of U.S. Government>The Liberty Bell
2. The last time the bell rang was on February 23, 1846 for _____________________________’s birthday [...]

To review the parts of a web page we will be doing a worksheet on this student-created timeline of Martin Luther King’s life.
 If you finish early, here are some videos of Martin Luther King’s speeches to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMXaTktUfA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8&feature=related

Downloads:

Web Browser Worksheet
MLK Matching Worksheet

Have fun practicing your library skills.

ABC Order–Authors (hint: find the last name first!)
ABC Order–Titles & Authors
Parts of a Book Hangman
Dewey Decimal System Matching 1
Dewey Decimal System Matching 2
Dewey Decimal System Concentration
Books, Books, Books Hangman (genres and types of books–a bit harder)
Genre Battleship (choose EASY…still a bit challenging, but fun to play)
Genre Battleship Level Two

This week and next week in media we put on our lab coats to investigate the meaning of those numbers on the spine labels of our nonfiction books. We learned that Melvil Dewey was a librarian in the 1800s who solved the problem of how to arrange his books with a numbering system based on [...]

With conferences and Thanksgiving, we’ll be doing something fun: online “refrigerator magnet” poetry. You can try this at home at  http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm
For some students, not having every word they want available to use is frustrating. Others enjoy the creative freedom of just trying out the words that appear before them in unusual ways. I will post [...]

The second graders know the secret: any book can be found if you know how to look it up on the computer with InfoCentre. Pairs of students began searching for subjects and then finding the books in the nonfiction section by call number last week. This week the students will continue by searching for authors [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

Second Graders at Amberly come to the media center twice each week.
On Monday or Friday, 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 [...]