Grades 3-8: January (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Tour of the Library
- OPAC (card catalog) [Can search by keyword, author, title, and subject)
- Juvenile Fiction & Nonfiction
- YA Fiction & Nonfiction (grades 6-8)
- DVDs, VHS, Audio books, etc.
- Introduce to employees at circ desk
- Library card registration forms/safe child policy/letter to parents
Agenda
- Intro: January 18 is Pooh Day (& the author A. A. Milne’s birthday). Let’s listen to a chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh and then we’ll play a game.
- Listen to Story 2: In Which pooh Goes Visiting & Gets Into a Tight Place on Winnie-the-Pooh audio book (8:26)
- Readers’ Theater: “In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest & Has Breakfast” (Adapted from Chapter 11 of The House at Pooh Corner)
- Game: Rabbit, Rabbit, Where’s Your Carrot?
- Book Display: Books Similar to Winnie-the-Pooh
Grades 3-8: February (Fairy Tales)
- Intro: Jacob Grimm was born on January 4, 1785. Wilhelm Grimm was born on February 24, 1786. February 26 is Tall a Fairy Tale Day.
- Survey students: Favorite Fairy Tale
- Read fairy tale riddles from Spot the Plot by J. Patrick Lewis (Cinderella & Rapunzel)
- Fairy Tale Jokes (from PUBYAC compilation)
- Read “The Swan” from Today at the Bluebird Café: A Branchful of Birds by Deborah Ruddell
- Read poems from Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer (to correspond to their favorite fairy tales)
- Read “The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces” from Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Read “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” by Patricia A. McKillip from The Wolf at the Door & Other Retold Fairy Tales edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
- Read poems from Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer (to correspond to their favorite fairy tales)
- Group Activity: Fairy Tale Mad Lib (find it here)
- Book Display: Fairy Tales (J 398s, Sisters Grimm series, etc.)
Note: This group didn't return after the February visit. They had a problem getting a bus. If they had come in March, I was going to do Dr. Seusss and crafts as the visit themes.