April
Library Skills: Chapter book read aloud, OPAC book searching
Literacy Skills: How to read a recipe, cooking/math skills, maps, compass skills,reference materials with focus on dictionary skills, newspaper as a sources of information, book organizations, guide words, alphabetical order
Technology: no use of the lab due to testing
March
Library Skills: Book talks non-fiction titles
Literacy Skills: Emergent reader read aloud making connections
Technology: No lab due to testing
February
Library Skills: Time magazine for kids, Meet the author and illustrator of book fair books.
Literacy Skills: Book talks with book fair books, read alouds from book fair.
Informational text, author visit how to write a good story with Brad Herzog.
Technology: Microsoft Word poster real life connections creating a lost dog poster. Part of the computer ( mouse, mouse pad, keyboard, speakers, printer, CPU, motherboard, hard drive, flash drive, CD Rom, 3-1/2 floppy, monitor, screen, output input. Magic School Bus Gets Programed video)
January
Library Skills: Time magazine for kids, meet the author and illustrator of book fair books.
Literacy Skills: Book talks with book fair books, read alouds from book fair. Informational text, author visit how to write a good story with Brad Herzog.
Technology: Microsoft Word poster for the book fair
December
Library Skills: Dewey posters, Time magazine for kids
Literacy Skills:Informational text
Technology: Cyber Safety, Cutting snowflakes online
November
Library Skills: Dewey Bingo
Literacy Skills: Continue with ABC order
Technology: Continue with log on skills and saving projects in the correct folders for grading. Continue with Word Skills from September and October.
October
Library Skills:
Literacy Skills: Continue with ABC order to the 2nd and 3th letters.Arthur stories in preparation for our guest D.W. Video "Meet author Marc Brown" Pat Gallager Books and connections, Arthur Book club.
Technology: Continue with log on skills and saving projects in the correct folders for grading. Continue with Word Skills from Sept.
September
Library Skills: Students are working on locating books within the library. They are also being introduced to using the online catalog for searching for materials in our library. We are learning the concept of numerical order in reference to non-fiction books. Our genre of the month is Historical Fiction.
Literacy Skills: We are working on ABC order to the 2nd and 3th letters.
Technology: This month students will continue with activities that build key awareness as well a building basic Word skills such as point size, font changes, color changes, bold, itallic, underline and allignment.Students are also learning to log into the computer with their own student ID and password. We are also review vocabulary from last year such as: mouse, mouse pad, headphones, keyboard, monitor, screen, systems unit, Log-in beginning keyboarding, Key awareness-shift, caps lock, spacebar, enter, backspace, alignment, Word art, point size spacing, double click/single click, vocabulary building, care and use of the lab.
End of a Chapter...
It is with sadness that I post that this is the end of a chapter in the story of the Harritt Elementary Library Media Webage. Due to budget cuts in the district the position of Library Media Technology Teacher no longer exists. The library at Harritt will remain open and staffed with the help of an instructional assistant and volunteers. However, there will no longer be instruction in literacy skills or library skills as well as technology instruction from a certified librarian. This blog will remain open as a symbol of what was once taught at Harritt and what has been lost due to lack of funding for education.
Don't Unplug Technology from K-5th Grades
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