2nd Graders focused on fleshing out the differences between fiction and nonfiction this week. To illustrate this point further, we enjoyed a new book in our nonfiction section called How Many Ways Can you Catch a Fly? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. The book is divided up into sections that ask questions like How Many Ways Can you Snare a Fish and How Many Ways Can you Hatch an Egg. Students loved hearing fun facts about different animals. Did you know that the ichneumon wasp lays its eggs inside a caterpillar? When the eggs hatch, the larvae eat their way out of the caterpillar's body.
Preschool: Preschoolers enjoyed Margaret Wise Brown's Big Red Barn this week. They loved pointing out the different farm animals and imitating their sounds. We observed how the pictures get darker and darker as the sun sets on the farm.
Junior Kindergarten: In Pigsty by Mark Teague, Wendell prefers dirtiness to cleanliness...even when the pigs move in. But after finding hoof marks on his comic books and bite marks on his baseball cards, he begins to change his mind...and his pigsty habits.
Kindergarten: Kindergartners listened to But Excuse Me That is My Book, a Charlie and Lola story by Lauren Child. Child's colorful collage-style illustrations and fun characters help teach the lesson that library books belong to all children. The book led naturally into a discussion about what to do if someone else checks out your favorite book (which can often be a cause for distress in the Kindergarten world).
1st Grade: 1st Graders started a unit on Fables this week. We discussed this type of story and read the classic tale The Ant and the Grasshopper. After the story we talked about the moral, there's a time for play and a time for work or you have to work hard to play hard. Students took turns sharing stories of how they apply this principle in their own lives.
2nd Grade: See opening post.
3rd Grade: 3rd Graders learned all about spine labels this week. Spine labels are like a book's address, and understanding how they work will help you navigate through the library. After figuring out how to differentiate fiction from nonfiction labels, students practiced writing spine labels on their whiteboards.
4th and 5th Grade: 4th and 5th graders missed library this week because of testing. More to come next week!
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