September in the Library
Check out what we've been up to in the PHS media center!
Thank you!
I have been having so much fun teaching and learning during my first month at the PHS media center. The whole community has been very welcoming and I couldn't ask for a better group of students, staff, and volunteers. Thank you all for your support!
How We've Been Learning
During the month of September we:
- Determined our Hopes and Dreams for library class.
- Learned about how the resources in the media center are organized.
- Determined rules for discussions, book care, and other library routines.
- Participated in conversations about fiction and nonfiction texts.
- Named the author and illustrator of a story and defined the role of each.
- Described how characters in a story responded to major events or challenges.
- Used information gained from a text to demonstrate understanding of plot.
- Used various text features to help us locate information in a text efficiently
- Recalled information from experiences and gathered information from sources to answer a question.
- Began research projects to build knowledge about a topic.
- Adding drawings to our descriptions to clarify our ideas.
Total Circulations: 2,171
Featured Resource: Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus has a playful, dinosaur-themed interface for beginning searchers. The database contains full text for more than 70 popular elementary school magazines and provides students with encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. Researchers can use the search box or browse by topic, aided by picture icons.
Looking Ahead
Next month it is my goal to co-teach some lessons, in addition to our regularly scheduled library classes. If you have any areas where you feel I can help support your students' learning (by collaboratively teaching the technology or information literacy piece of a lesson), please do not hesitate to contact me to make it happen either in the library or in your classroom!
Also: Please know you are always welcome to send students down to the library media center to swap books or work on independent research between 8:10 and 8:40 every morning.
Want More?
- Email Miss O'Kane at o'kanek@bpsmail.org.
- Visit the PHS Library Media Center website at phlib.weebly.com for more resources and updates!