Learning in the Library

Each week, the first graders review the organization of the picture book section (alphabetical order by the author’s last name) and where the books by the featured authors are shelved.  The fiction picture books have yellow stickers with letters on the front covers.  The letter is the first letter of the author’s last name and they match the letters on the front of the shelves.  The children are learning to be more independent in finding books they are interested in reading.

This week the first graders were introduced to author/illustrator Denise Fleming and her books.  They enjoyed two of her rhyming books, In the Small, Small Pond and In the Tall, Tall Grass, before meeting Buster, a dog who gets lost after running from the cat his person brings home. 

In recognition of Halloween, the lesson ended with a new book, Ghosts in the House! by Kazuno Kohara.  After the story, the children made ghosts out of two tissues and a piece of yarn.  They are boo-tiful!