By cook | Published:
February 16, 2011
This class is a great group of readers. They come each week, some with their own books, eager to finish their new “favorite” read. We’ve been working on learning where books are located in the library, locating them by their call numbers and understanding more about the Dewey Decimal system. We’ve also worked on some atlas skills which requires work with an index. The students have a great attitude toward all we do. When we have free moments we’re continuing our reading of a great novel called The Invention of Hugo Cabret. We’re all engrossed! I just wish we had more time to read in class.
By cook | Published:
February 16, 2011
Second graders took one class to select a book that they wanted to read to the whole class. Each Monday we have two readers from each section. The children who read have done a great job reading and then showing the illustrations to classmates. You can tell they have been attentive to how a library class runs or how one reads to a group. Although the books chosen range from a simple ABC book with illiterative sentences to match each letter, to a chapter book which we cannot possibly finish in the alotted time, each child is reading at his or her comfortable level. We try to keep reading time to 10 minutes per child. We should finish this unit in about 2 more weeks.
By cook | Published:
November 9, 2009
First term flew by! At parent night, I told parents that I would post links to great search engines for children. I had a list of about 6 or 7 at that time. But I recently found the following website that lets you go to search engines from the search line on their page and has lots and lots (did I mention they have lots?) of wonderful sites that are appropriate for children searching for information. Start with this list. If you need help culling from this list, please let me know.
kids search engines and resources
By admin | Published:
September 7, 2009
After a year of work with some amazing DDS parents, students and alums to get the school library fully automated, we’re finally done. After about 160 man hours of entering each book into a database by ISBN number, Library of Congress number or title, we completed logging the remaining 5,000 volumes this summer. We have over 11,000 books in our “little” library and having looked at each book during the automation process I have to credit Ruth Madlon for amassing an amazing collection of books. At some point soon I’ll write to tell you how you can access our library collection on-line.
