Kindergarten

====Welcome to the Kindergarten page of the Hawthorn Library Media Center wiki. You can visit this page to learn more about the lessons and activities Kindergarteners are enjoying in the LMC as they learn how to: use our library, select books for enjoyment, identify fiction and nonfiction books, take part in an award book program, use technology, and much more.====

Building Block Award Books
====Each year our kindergarteners enjoy books nominated for the Building Block Award. These books are selected for their rich stories and illustrations. After reading the books, our kindergarteners will take part in online voting to select their favorite.==== ====Our current story is //Hugless Douglas// by David Melling. Did you know there are different ways to greet others? We discovered a website called Fact Monster which has all kinds of information. This is a safe site for kids to use and we even learned how to use a "keyword" to search for ways to greet people around the world! Go to Fact Monster to see if you can find out.==== ====We have also enjoyed, Dog in Boots by Greg Gormley and Lois Ehlert's //RRRalph.// We discovered that we can use many different things to create our own collages just like Lois Ehlert! Here are a few of our creations!!====



Choosing Just Right Books
====Kindergarteners are practicing skills they learned in readers workshop. Choosing books that are "just right" for us is an important skill! Mrs. Sweney's kindergarteners are practicing checking out the cover to see if it interests them, and looking inside to make sure!====



Kindergarteners are learning about the U.S. Constitution. We watched the School House Rock video, "Constitution Preamble" and read a story about Constitution Day.
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Books Are Treasures
====Kindergarteners enjoyed Edward the Pirate by David MacPhail, and learned the many ways to keep books safe because they are treasures. Mrs. Borsella's kindergarteners showed off some of the items they were able to match up to the rules of keeping books safe!====



Shared Research - Super3
====Kindergarteners are learning about what an author does and where they get their ideas. They are also preparing to do some shared research using a method called Super3. We practiced by doing some shared research about Laura Numeroff.====