First+Grade

====Welcome to the First Grade page of the Hawthorn Library Media Center wiki. You can visit this page to learn more about the lessons and activities First Graders 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.====

Super3 - Plan, Do, Review
====[[#x-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.]]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.====

Old Black Fly
===="Old Black Fly's been buzzin' around, buzzin' around, buzzin' around. Old Black Fly's been buzzin' around and he's had a very busy, bad day." First grade students are learning about the importance of the alphabet in the library. We have discovered that not only is it important in helping us read, it also helps us locate books in our library. Our Everybody collection has "streets" that use the letters of the alphabet to direct students to books written by certain authors. Being able to independently locate books in the library is a great skill for every student to know. Students re-illustrated the book, Old Black Fly written by Jim Aylesworth and illustrated by Stephen Gammell, using vocabulary from the story. Once students alphabetized themselve, we re-read the book using our own illustrations!====

Constitution Day
====First graders are learning about the U.S. Constitution. We watched the School House Rock video,====

Learning About Authors on the Internet
====We are learning more about authors and studying the kinds of books they write. First graders will use the Super3 research process this year. We practiced the three steps of this process, Plan, Do, Review, by seeing how easy it was to use in preparing to take a special trip. We discovered that we can learn about authors on the Internet, but not all authors have their own website. Here is the site Doreen Cronin uses. After visiting Laura Numeroff's website we discussed the differences and voted on which one we liked best. Try out some of the games we played about Laura Numeroff's books at Mouse Cookies Books.====

Parts of a Book
====First Graders are reviewing the various parts of a book. Check out the "Parts of a Book" game we enjoyed playing on the SmartBoard:====

Stella Louella's Lost Library Book
====First graders had to search the library for Lisa Campbell Ernst's Stella Louella's Lost Library Book. They visited all of the important parts of the library to find clues before finally finding our book to enjoy.====