missing my new favorite lesson
Off sick today. I decided three days of not talking was not making me better.
The week always ends with the evil third graders. Each kid is not bad, though hardly a saint. So the third grade teacher and I work as hard as we can to make up interesting and fun lessons. The teacher has been spending time on teaching the kids about Caldecotts, mostly from appreciating the art of a book.
Last week the kids had to present books they thought were caldecott worthy. This week she has moved into them making their own Caldecott worthy book. So I suggested we catalogue and put the books in the library.
As I was putting together the lesson yesterday I realized it was the perfect way to do a several things: 1) show them what is important when finding a book (author, title, subject); 2) Thus show them how THEY can find books; 3) start teaching them about the elements of citing a book (publisher, copyright); 4) positive reenforcement.
Our third graders are just about the right age for having them look up books with the OPAC.
I'm one of those people, fortunately, who has an aide who is probably better than me. Everyone knows she is the hardest worker in town.
But that isn't to say I am not jealous of her starting this lesson. Though I should have let her anyways, at least since she is in charge of doing much of the processing --- putting on the barcode, call numbers and so on.
Of course taking a long nap makes up for it!
The week always ends with the evil third graders. Each kid is not bad, though hardly a saint. So the third grade teacher and I work as hard as we can to make up interesting and fun lessons. The teacher has been spending time on teaching the kids about Caldecotts, mostly from appreciating the art of a book.
Last week the kids had to present books they thought were caldecott worthy. This week she has moved into them making their own Caldecott worthy book. So I suggested we catalogue and put the books in the library.
As I was putting together the lesson yesterday I realized it was the perfect way to do a several things: 1) show them what is important when finding a book (author, title, subject); 2) Thus show them how THEY can find books; 3) start teaching them about the elements of citing a book (publisher, copyright); 4) positive reenforcement.
Our third graders are just about the right age for having them look up books with the OPAC.
I'm one of those people, fortunately, who has an aide who is probably better than me. Everyone knows she is the hardest worker in town.
But that isn't to say I am not jealous of her starting this lesson. Though I should have let her anyways, at least since she is in charge of doing much of the processing --- putting on the barcode, call numbers and so on.
Of course taking a long nap makes up for it!
posted by Library Monkey at 8:25 AM
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