Our first week back at school was only 3 days so I didn't hold classes. I just lesson planned and cleaned and did a bunch of boring stuff. The next week back was a full week, but between meetings and testing, I only saw a handful of students. We were SUPPOSED to go over the Accelerated Reader program, however, my technology failed at the last minute so we switched to talking about genres which I'd planned to do the following week. THIS is why I plan ahead! So I have this cute little tree and all the branches have different genres written on them. We talked about what they all were and then I picked books and had the students try to guess the genre. We then wrote the book title on a leaf and stuck it on the appropriate tree branch. Super cute. However, I was only about to do this with 3rd grade completely. So we will continue next week. That's a little much for Kindergarten and Preschool so we talked about fiction and non-fiction with the kindergartners and had them choose between a book about cows and Click, Clack, Moo! Cows That Type and pick which one was fiction and which was non-fiction. Preschool we reinforced author and illustrator because I had just gotten word we'd be having an author visit the following week. So I read a few of her books and then talked about what an author and an illustrator does. It was a pretty easy week, but I got a few displays done and more planned in my head. |
About MeI am a first year elementary school librarian, and let me say it is QUITE the adventure! Although I've worked in public libraries on and off for 10 years, this is a horse of a different color. Bare with me as I brave the new struggles and pure joy that this career is bringing! Archives
March 2016
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