Monday, January 25, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010 8 hours
7:30-8:10 Prepare for the day by checking work email and responding, assisting teachers who come into the library looking for books, schedule changes and checking out of AV equipment.

8:10-8:50 Am
Books are collected by the 4th graders, a volunteer parent and the library clerk from all the classrooms. We check them in and divide them into there appropriate shelving categories of fiction, nonfiction, periodicals, video, and everybody. Shelving the books according to call number and display of books for appropriate season, holiday, etc. I pulled books on kindness for the 4K EC children to pick from today during class. Kindergarten and first grade reports are run and printed.

8:50-9:00 AM Preparation for classes begins with the placement of student name cards on the tables. Prepared three internet webpages to show the second grade.

9:00-9:30 AM Read Curious George Goes to the Ice Cream Shop to the kindergarten students and we discussed that this monkey in the story is not a real monkey. Fiction books are make believe and therefore we do not necessarily learn facts from fiction books. We also read a non fiction monkey book and discussed the facts contained in that book along with the helpful parts of a nonfiction book that help us find the information we need easily, Table of contents, glossary, and index. The library book return report was read to the children and those allowed to take out books went to look at books and those who did not return their books sat at the round table and looked at books there.

9:30-10:00 4K EC We sat on the carpet and talked about kindness. I asked them questions on what kindness means and how we can show it to others. We discuss that friendliness was part of kindness and that by being friendly to new children at school we are showing kindness and gaining new friends which can be a lot of fun. I read the Friendliness to the children which prompted more questions and discussion and examples of how they have been friendly and kind in their lives. I handed out the library cards and the children selected from the books on the round table which I pulled for them.

10:00-11:15 Second grade is learning about monkeys and learning how to take notes from reliable websites. We read the book Curious George Goes to the Ice Cream Shop and discussed the situations Curious George got himself into and how he is not a real monkey. The students stated that real monkeys are not allow in stores. We talked about how this book is fiction and therefore does not contain facts about monkeys. We then discussed other sources we could use to find facts monkeys. I handed out the Super 3 Plan, Do, Review Thinking Web: p. 55 Super 3 Infomation Skills for Young Learners and we began looking at websites to fill in the bubbles on notes about monkeys. I projected the websites on the Promethean board. We went to (video)http://www.bronxzoo.com/plan-your-trip/exhibits/monkey-house.asp, http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-monkey.html, http://www.enchantedlearning.com. We wrote down 1-2 facts about monkeys from each page only writing notes and not complete sentences in our own words.

11:15-11:30 I cleaned up from the previous classes and prepared for my afternoon classes by getting out the necessary books and name cards.

12:00-12:50 I assisted the students with finding books and check books out for open book check. This requires checking the 5th grade library cards for their Accelerated Reader level and making sure they are selecting books with in this level. If they have met the requirements for the month by having an approval from their teacher on the monthly recording slip they may select any books they wish. Otherwise they must have all books within their level. They may select 5 books. II was able to shelve a few books during this time as well.

12:50-1:00 Prepare for the 4k EC afternoon class.

1:00-1:30 4K EC We sat on the carpet and talked about kindness. I asked them questions on what kindness means and how we can show it to others. We discuss that friendliness was part of kindness and that by being friendly to new children at school we are showing kindness and gaining new friends which can be a lot of fun. I read the Friendliness to the children which prompted more questions and discussion and examples of how they have been friendly and kind in their lives. I handed out the library cards and the children selected from the books on the round table which I pulled for them.

1:30-2:00 Second grade is learning about monkeys and learning how to take notes from reliable websites. We read the book Curious George Goes to the Ice Cream Shop and discussed the situations Curious George got himself into and how he is not a real monkey. The students stated that real monkeys are not allow in stores. We talked about how this book is fiction and therefore does not contain facts about monkeys. We then discussed other sources we could use to find facts monkeys. I handed out the Super 3 Plan, Do, Review Thinking Web: p. 55 Super 3 Information Skills for Young Learners and we began looking at websites to fill in the bubbles on notes about monkeys. I projected the websites on the Promethean board. We went to (video)http://www.bronxzoo.com/plan-your-trip/exhibits/monkey-house.asp, http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-monkey.html, http://www.enchantedlearning.com. We wrote down 1-2 facts about monkeys from each page only writing notes and not complete sentences in our own words.

2:00-2:45 4th Grade is working on the Big 6 Research process. This is the second lesson on building our research for our imaginary animal power points. The students were given their worksheets that outline the Big 6 and we went over the notes we completed from last week. They were instructed that today they would be using either an encyclopedia or nonfiction book to get 3 facts about one of the 3 animals they have selected for this project. They were told that if they selected the head of the lion for one of the body parts then they would have to have 3 facts about the lion head. They should give facts specific to the animals body part. Some of the students were confused in the previous class and wrote down any facts about the chosen animal even though they were not specific to the animals body part they wanted to use to create their imaginary animal. The bottom portion of the worksheet has space for all the information required to do an appropriate citation of the source. Again there was confusion as they were not paying attention to the type of resource that went on each page and we had to go over that again. Most of the students were able to get to the internet source as well. It was a really good class and the children got further than I expected even though some still were writing in the wrong place.

2:45-2:55 Cleaned up from my classes and prepared to go outside for circle duty.

3:10-4:00 Wrote questions for Battle of the Books book Tweets of America, answered work emails, assisted teachers in finding books and AV equipment