Week 3

During week 3 we continued to dive into the basics of the library. With our younger students we focused on learning and discussing the parts of a book, and with our older students we reintroduced
how to use the online catalog.

A Book Is Just Like You! All About the Parts of a Book by Kathleen Fox  

Read to: Pre-K, Kinder, Primer, First and Second 

Skills: Parts of a book 

I read this book again this year as it is such a great one for teaching the basics of the parts of a book. It discusses the main parts students see and need to know about and compares the book to you and I. One example from the book might be, "Just like we have a name, a book has a title." Some of the parts we focused on were:  Title, Author, Illustrator, Text, Call Number, and Spine.  With the first and second graders I dove in a little deeper and introduced them to other parts of a book such as the Index, Table of Contents, and Glossary. These are terms that I think are important for these students to know as they will be exposed to them throughout the year.
 

With our Third and Fourth Graders we reminded them how to access and use the online catalog. Even though they used the catalog last year it always surprises me how rusty they are at it, so we will need to review this a lot this year.