The Library staff teaches a progressive program of
skills instruction in all grades. Primary level activities are centered
around literature appreciation while the middle grades concentrate on
the organization of information and evaluation of .
To see what we are doing in a specific class this
week click on the grade level below:
| September |
- stories about starting school, families
- decorate book-saver boxes
- learning how to care for library books
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| October |
Halloween
stories! |
| November |
Autumn/ Food/ Thanksgiving |
| December |
Books about winter holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa |
| January |
Stories about friendship and equality; Library Friendship Tree project
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| February |
Fiction and non-fiction books about dinosaurs |
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March |
Springtime! Gardens, bugs, and farms |
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April |
Fairy Tales |
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May |
Picture book classics |
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| September |
- stories about starting school, families
- decorate book-saver boxes
- learn how to use Save My Spot shelf passes
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| October |
Halloween Stories!
Save My Spot shelf passes
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| November |
Stories about Art and Artists |
| December |
Stories about winter |
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January |
Stories from all the continents:
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February |
- Europe and Antarctica
- North America
- South America
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March |
Poetry and stories that rhyme |
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April |
Paired fiction and non-fiction |
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May |
Summertime fun |
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| September |
- How to find the right book for me
- Introduction to genres
- Captain Book: Library Superhero
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| October |
Halloween Stories!
- parody
- allusions
- idioms
- figures of speech
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November |
- Map of the library scavenger hunt
- Favorite book posters
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| December |
Holidays around the world; Holiday research |
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January |
Chinese Folklore |
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February |
Aesop's Fables |
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March |
Tall Tales
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April |
Fractured Fairy Tales |
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May |
More Fractured Fairy Tales |
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| September |
- What is a story? What are the elements of a story?
- Locating different kinds of stories in the Town library
- Using the library catalog and self-checkout system
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| October |
- Mystery Stories and Horror Stories (introduction to genres)
- Piggins and mystery keywords: crime, evidence, clue, suspect, motive, mystery
- Sherlock Holmes
- Build Your Own Scary Story
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| November |
- Storytelling Through Pictures
- Wordless Picture Books
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December |
- Storytelling Through Pictures
- Wordless Picture Books
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| January |
- School Stories from around the world
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| September |
- Introduction: The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary
- "Fast Facts" project (research a topic that interests you, choose a fact to highlight and illustrate)
- introduce CultureGrams and Worldbook, begin States project
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| October |
- States project
- Spooky Stories
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| November |
- Read The Two Bobbies
- create life maps for The Two Bobbies (writing trait = organization)
- read Never Smile at a Monkey
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December |
- Never Smile at a Monkey research
- create safety posters based on Never Smile at a Monkey
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| January |
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February |
- Read Sundiata and Macbeth
- finish biographies project
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| March |
- Continue reading Macbeth, begin preparing mini-plays
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| Fifth
Grade Media Literacy (co-taught with Technology department) |
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| Week 1 (9/7) |
Media Use Survey |
| Week 2 (9/14) |
Class #1
Class #2
Use the following links to complete today's activity. DO NOT give out any personal information to ANY of these websites!
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Week 3 |
Class #1
Class #2
- Introduction to Gmail
- E-mail Etiquette
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Week 4
(9/28 - 10/2) |
5A Class #1
5A Class #2
Persuasive techniques
Sample Videos for Persuasive Techniques
5B Class #1
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Week 5
(10/5 - 10/9) |
5B Class #1
Persuasive techniques
5B Class #2
Persuasive Techniques, part 2 |
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Week 6
(Tues. 10/13 - 10/16) |
5A Class #1
Persuasive techniques, part 2
5A Class #2
Target audiences
5B Class #1
Target audiences
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Week 7
(10/19 - 10/23) |
5B Class #1
Commercial Presentation
5A Class #1
Commercial Presentation
5A Class #2
Website Evaluations
All About Explorers
- http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/home
5B Class #2
Website Evaluations
All About Explorers
- http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/home |
Week 8
(10/26 - 10/30) |
Finding and Identifying Reliable Websites
Imagine that you are a 5th grader doing a research project on San Francisco. Choose TWO of these websites to evaluate, using a Website Evaluation form.
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Week 9
(11/2 - 11/6) |
create San Francisco websites, add text and images |
Week 10
(11/9 - 11/13) |
use eLibrary to locate information and take notes |
Week 11
(11/16 - 11/20) |
use eLibrary to locate information and take notes
update San Francisco websites |
Week 12
(11/23 - 11/24) |
Tech Topics:
- Creating and organizing folders
-- Accessing Community
- Synchronizing the My Documents folder
- Basic troubleshooting:
-- Connecting to the wireless network
-- Offline files
-- "Resolve File Conflicts"
Complete Google Sites
Typer Shark - http://www.popcap.com/games/free/typershark |
Week 13
(11/30 - 12/4) |
- Create a Google Doc for your California story.
- Select THREE locations for your California story, and type them into your Google doc.
- Start brainstorming your story!
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Week 14
(12/7 - 12/11) |
Work on your California digital story
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Week 15
(12/14 - 12/18) |
Finish California digital stories |
Week 16
(1/4 - 1/8) |
5A (Tuesday x 2)
- MovieMaker lesson
- Google Images work
- Save images in Community (in appropriate folder)
5B (Wednesday)
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Week 17
(1/11 - 1/16)
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5A
Tuesday #1
- Finish searching for images.
- Place your images in your Windows MovieMaker storyboard, and have the storyboard checked by a teacher.
- Use "Save Project As" to save your work in progress in your Community folder.
Tuesday #2:
- Finish work from Tuesday morning class.
- If time, begin recording your audio narration.
5B
Monday: Find AT LEAST ten images for your digital storytelling project. Save them in your Community folder.
Wednesday:
- Finish searching for images.
- Place your images in your Windows MovieMaker storyboard, and have the storyboard checked by a teacher.
- Use "Save Project As" to save your work in progress in your Community folder.
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Week 18
(1/19 - 1/20) |
Tuesday, 5A
- Finish your storyboard.
- Finish recording your audio narration.
- Small groups will be pulled aside to help us record a movie for the Martin Luther King Jr. assembly.
- Lesson on importing music from Freeplaymusic.com
Wednesday, 5B
- Finish your storyboard.
- Finish recording your audio narration.
- Small groups will be pulled aside to help us record a movie for the Martin Luther King Jr. assembly.
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Week 19
(1/25 - 1/27) |
Tuesday, 5A
- Finish your movie project
- Save your project as a movie file IN COMMUNITY
Wednesday, 5B
- Finish your movie project
- Save your project as a movie file IN COMMUNITY
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Week 20
(2/1 - 2/3) |
- Finish your movie project, save it as a movie file IN COMMUNITY. If you are not able to finish during class, you MUST come to the library during recess or after school and get extra help.
- Introduction to copyright: What is copyright? What is fair use? Watch Fairy Use video.
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Week 21
(2/8 - 2/10) |
Happy Spirit Week!
- Copyright scenarios & debate
- Digital Storytelling Film Festival!
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Week 22
(2/22 - 2/24) |
Introduction to Poetry Project
read Selvakumar Knew Better and The Two Bobbies
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Week 23
(3/1 - 3/5) |
Read instructions for Natural Disasters project
Complete Part One of natural disasters project |
Week 24
(3/8-3/10) |
Guest speaker on Haiti and photography
Begin Part Two of natural disasters project |
Week 25
(3/15-3/17) |
Complete Part Two of natural disasters project, revise part one (as needed)
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Week 27
(4/11 - 4/14) |
Begin ecology project. |
Week 28
(4/19 -4/21) |
Work on ecology project |
Week 29
(4/26 - 4/28) |
Work on ecology project |
Week 30
(5/3 - 5/5) |
- Work on ecology project
- Begin Google Presentations
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Week 31
(5/10-5/12) |
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Week 32
(5/17-5/19) |
- Make sure you have cited your websites in NoodleTools and pasted those citations into your bibliography slide.
- Begin practicing your group presentation.
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Week 33
(5/24-5/26) |
- Finish practicing your group presentation. (1st period)
- Begin presenting (2nd period)
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Week 34
(6/1-6/3) |
Presentations |
Week 35
(6/7 - 6/9) |
Take final assessment.
Fill out course evaluation. |
Media Literacy Resources
"When You're Done" Activities
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Library activities for each week are listed in the table below. Check
back for weekly updates!
Educational Games resources:
Auditorium -- Force beams of light toward targets in order to create mysterious, otherwordly music. Can you solve these unusual puzzles?
Nobel Prize Games -- A series of flash games related to the work of prize-winning scientists.
Free Rice -- Help feed the hungry while simultaneously boosting your vocab! Warning, this game is more addictive than you'd think.
EdHeads -- Perform virtual surgery, analyze a crash scene, and explore the physics of some really weird simple machines.
| Week 1 |
- introductory survey & course overview
- review Tiger Points system
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| Week 2 |
Searching, Skimming, Scanning lesson (BINGO!)
Use Social Studies for Kids to help you complete your team's bingo board.
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Week 3
(10/5/09) |
Magazine Project |
Week 4
(10/19/09) |
Magazine Project |
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Week 5
(10/26/09) |
- Spooky Stories (Halloween week)
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Week 6
(11/2/09) |
Medieval Fair!
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Week 7
(11/09/09) |
- independent reading (6A)
- spooky stories (6B)
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Week 8
(11/16/09) |
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Week 9
(11/23/09) |
Book trailers project
- review project guidelines
- create Google doc for narration text
- create project folders in Community
- download Firefox add-on (optional) for video capture
- MovieMaker review
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Week 10
(11/30/09) |
Book trailers project
- work on narration text
- when you are finished with text, begin locating images and video clips
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Week 11
(12/7/09) |
Book trailers project
- Review project guidelines
- finish Google doc for narration text
- start gathering images & video clips, and SAVE THEM TO COMMUNITY!
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| Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade |
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Seventh and eighth graders in the Literate Writer class visit the library weekly for independent reading. Approximately once a month, the librarians give booktalks highlighting books they feel are of particular interest to this age group.
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