Tomorrow's the big day!! I've already decided what books I'm going to read to my kiddos:
1. For the K's and 1st graders, We're Going on a Book Hunt by Pat Miller. It's an adorable book that's basically We're Going on a Bear Hunt, but it's about how to find a good book to read. It has motions and is really really cute!
2. For the 2nd and 3rd graders, I'm going to read Our Librarian Won't Tell Us Anything! by Toni Buzzeo. Also adorable! A new student at Liberty Elementary School (Go Panthers!) can't understand why his classmate keeps telling him that their librarian won't help them find what they're looking for. Turns out, the librarian just teaches the kids how to help themselves! (Another goal for this school year!!)
3. For the 4th and 5th graders, I've got Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes by Jackie Mims Hopkins. It's so fun and gives the opportunity for tons of voices in storytelling! It's a Snow White kind of story (barely), where an enchanting storyteller gets jealous of the new famous storyteller in the kingdom and tries to sabotage his new fame. But don't worry...they end up partners!
The other thing I did today was create my posters! Our district uses CHAMPS as our behavior management program. It stands for Conversation, Help, Activity, Movement, Participation, and Success. I took off the Success part because I don't really get it, personally, so my poster just says CHAMP. :) I'm pretty proud of it! A lot of classes have different posters for each activity. I just put all of my options on one board and made check marks to velcro under the appropriate one. Here's a picture in case you're thoroughly confused.
One side shows things that we absolutely should do with our library books, the other side is...discouraged. :)
Happy almost first day of school!!!!
1. For the K's and 1st graders, We're Going on a Book Hunt by Pat Miller. It's an adorable book that's basically We're Going on a Bear Hunt, but it's about how to find a good book to read. It has motions and is really really cute!
2. For the 2nd and 3rd graders, I'm going to read Our Librarian Won't Tell Us Anything! by Toni Buzzeo. Also adorable! A new student at Liberty Elementary School (Go Panthers!) can't understand why his classmate keeps telling him that their librarian won't help them find what they're looking for. Turns out, the librarian just teaches the kids how to help themselves! (Another goal for this school year!!)
3. For the 4th and 5th graders, I've got Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes by Jackie Mims Hopkins. It's so fun and gives the opportunity for tons of voices in storytelling! It's a Snow White kind of story (barely), where an enchanting storyteller gets jealous of the new famous storyteller in the kingdom and tries to sabotage his new fame. But don't worry...they end up partners!
The other thing I did today was create my posters! Our district uses CHAMPS as our behavior management program. It stands for Conversation, Help, Activity, Movement, Participation, and Success. I took off the Success part because I don't really get it, personally, so my poster just says CHAMP. :) I'm pretty proud of it! A lot of classes have different posters for each activity. I just put all of my options on one board and made check marks to velcro under the appropriate one. Here's a picture in case you're thoroughly confused.
I took everything to Office Depot to have printed in color, then took it home to assemble, then took it right back to Office Depot to have the whole thing laminated. Then I took it home to do the velcro and voilà! It's ready for our procedures lesson!
The other poster that I got ready for tomorrow was all about book care. I got the template from The Book Fairy Goddess on Teachers Pay Teachers. I am so happy I found it because creating my own would have taken foreeeeever. I'm not into that. It was $3 and totally worth it. The pictures are super cute and everything was already formatted. All I did was get it laminated and, again, velcro! I'm all for preserving things I'll use in the future, and since I plan to be a librarian for a long time, I wanted to save these!
Happy almost first day of school!!!!
OMG!!!!! I LOVE THE POSTERS!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo CUTE! Colorful originality combined with tried and true methods of others - genius! Looking forward to hearing the kiddos reactions to today's book choices!
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