Second+Grade

====Welcome to the Second Grade page of the Hawthorn Library Media Center wiki. You can visit this page to learn more about the lessons and activities Second graders are enjoying in the LMC as they learn how to: use our library, select books for enjoyment and readability, learn about many different genres, take part in an award book program, use technology, and much more.====

Nonfiction Features of Text
====Second graders have been reviewing features of nonfiction text and how those features can help readers who are trying to locate specific information. Students participated in a scavenger hunt using different kinds of resources to locate information using these features. Check out "Non Fiction Rap" from YouTube that was created by students in another school.====

Super3 - Plan, Do, Review
====Need to do some research? Plan a trip? Break down a problem? Then Super3 is for you! Second graders are learning how to use a problem-solving process called the Super3. It's three steps are: 1) Plan, 2) Do, and 3) Review. By breaking down the problem into smaller parts we have discovered how easy doing research can be. We recently read //The Blue House Dog// by Deborah Blumenthal. After reading, we decided we would like to know more about German Sheperds so we began our "Plan" a decided what we wanted to know. We brainstormed a short list of things: 1) How big do the dogs get? 2) What are some special things about these dogs? 3) Did the dogs come from Germany? and 4) Do they do special jobs? Now we are going to try to decide where we would find this information? We learned that we have a book in our library about German Sheperds because we looked it up using Destiny. We also found out that the magazine Dog Fancy has lots of information about dogs, but we would have to know which issue had something about German Sheperds. We decided this wasn't such a good resource for our task. Using the Internet gave us some good information because we could use a "search engine" called KidRex to find some good resources to help us learn more about German Sheperds. Using a search engine means choosing the right "keywords" to get the best information. "Dogs" gave us too much general information, but "German Sheperds" got us exactly where we needed to be. We used the result summaries to decide which sites were best. Our next step would be "Do", and use these resources to search for information to answer our questions. Finally, "Review" would help us decide if we finished all of our Plan and/or decide if we needed to change something for the next time. Super3 is easy to use to help us make research more manageable.====

Understanding Call Numbers
====Second graders are learning how to use call number to locate books in the library. Knowing how to use these call numbers will help them become independent users of the library. Several of Mrs. White's second graders are hard at work!====



Destiny!
====As the school year began, we learned how to use our online catalog, Destiny Quest. This catalog allows students to search for books by title, author, subject, series, and even genre. We want our students connecting with books that are interesting and at their reading level. Destiny has a feature so students can narrow their searches to only books at their reading level. They can also create their own reading lists! One of the best parts about Destiny is that you can use it from home too! Click the Destiny link to get started today, and don't forget to make it a favorite!====