Alphabet and Call Numbers...How the Library Works

This past week our library was all a buzz about the alphabet and call numbers. Our students worked on these skills to help them become more proficient in their resource location abilities. Sometimes students don't understand that learning the alphabet proficiently leads to practical applications throughout their school years and beyond.

PreK and PPCD

This week we sang the alphabet song with Sesame Street and read Alphabatics by Suse McDonald. Students then completed a scavenger hunt among themselves to find either the capital or lowercase letter that match the one they were given. It was great to see our littles working together and helping each other to find their matches! 

Kinder

We read Alphabatics by Suse McDonald and closely watched our beloved alphabet letters change into images that represented each letter. The students increasingly became observant and aware of the growing changes the further we read and discussed the illustrations. Kinder students worked with their alphabet and practiced identifying letter that came before and after given letters. 

First Grade

First grade students enjoyed listening to Alpha Oops and discussing the possibilities of life with an alphabet that was in a different order than what we know. Students then worked with partners to collaboratively place words in alphabetical order by the first letter. 

Second Grade

The week our second graders completed their Creepy Carrot fence from their planned construction of the previous week. We had a great number of successes and some failures; however, we have learned that failures are a part of the STEM process as with any other scientific process. Students reflected on what worked, what didn't, and what they thought they could do differently to improve their designs.  All had a good time and experienced computational thinking at its fullest!  

Third Grade

Third grade was introduced to the Traveling Mural Project by Shannon Miller a librarian for Van Meter Schools  in Iowa. This project was inspired by Maybe Something Beautiful, a story about how one neighborhood went from drab to fab with mural paintings led by Raphael Lopez and his wife. Our students will be creating a 10 ft mural to represent Alkek's school motto: Be Kind - Work Hard - Dream Big. Then the mural will be cut into 1 ft sections and mailed off to 9 other schools across the country; in return we will be receiving 9 pieces back. We will put these pieces together and display them in the hallway. This is our way of making a world wide impact!  

 

Fourth and Fifth Grade

Students completed their library scavenger hunt by practicing the usage of call numbers to assist them in locating resources within the library. Not only did they get the chance to practice the use of call numbers, but they found many books they did not know our library housed. 

Book Fair is Coming!

This week students are previewing the book fair and all it has to offer! Our arctic reading igloo is also complete! Thank you for all of the jug donations that made it possible!