Our Past Week and a Half in the Media Center

I can't believe that we are already into September!  The beginning of school has gone by in the blink of an eye! All classes Kindergarten through Fifth Grade has been able to check out books!  I'm always so happy when we can check out on the first day of class.

As always, at the beginning of the year is all about rules, and routines and book care.  This year with Third Grade through Fifth Grade we also talked about Respectful, Responsible, and Ready to Learn behavior for the library. This behaviors follow along with our PBIS program that we have started at HES this year. The Third Graders took some behaviors that I thought up and sorted them into what category they thought it belonged.  The Fourth and Fifth Grade students had to come up with their own behaviors for the different categories.  Below you will see some of my favorites.

Respectful	Responsible	Ready to Learn
*ask politely for help	*returning books on time	*listen to directions
*helping a classmate and/or teacher	*keep track of your library books	*have a positive attitude
*don’t talk while others are talking	*putting book back where they belong	*have an open mind
*read quietly after checking out books	*keeping library books in a safe place	*don’t be lazy

Coming up next for our HES students:

Kindergarten:  We will be learning all about what they author does.

First Grade: We will begin learning about the differences between fiction and                      nonfiction.

Second Grade:  We will continue to review the differences between fiction and
                      nonfiction.  We will also begin to learn about nonfiction text 
                      features. We will also be working on our new student log ins.

Third Grade:  We will be "Cracking the Library Code".  This means we will be
                   learning all about call numbers.  We will also be working on our
                   new student log ins.

Fourth Grade:  We will be reviewing how to read a record on Destiny, our 
                     online library catalog.  We will also be working on our new 
                     student log ins.

Fifth Grade:  We will be reviewing how to read a record on Destiny, our online
                   library catalog and find the book on the shelf. We will also be 
                   working on our new student log ins.

I will also be doing book talks to the different grades.  I'll be posting on the blog some of my favorites from the books that I read this summer. 

Happy Reading!!

Miss Hazuda