Orientation

Orientation Ideas:

• General lay out of the books

• Special Collections

• new incoming books

• review the Dewey Decimal System with a Nonfiction Booktalk

• take a tour of the library IRL or virtually

• check out books 1 fiction and 1 nonfiction

• talk about book club, donations, and events we may have throughout the year, like book fair or contests

• Scavenger Hunt

  • Goosechase.com  Scavenger Hunt

  • Flipgrid Scavenger Hunt

  • Scavenger Hunt on the Library Website

  • Photo Scavenger Hunt

• Introductory Video

• Library Brochure 

• Hand out Dewey Bookmarks

• Review the Dewey Decimal System and Library Information using Quizlet.

• How to choose a good book by Barbara Paciotti (4:36 on Vimeo)

• Digital Breakout for Library Orientation blog Tales from a Loud Librarian

• Quiz students on the Dewey Decimal System using a Kahoot Quiz

• Dewey Snowball Fight:  Put Dewey numbers on pieces of paper. The students each get one and will crumple it up. They get 1 min to have a “snowball” running around throwing their “snowballs”. When time is up they have to pick up the nearest one (I always have extras just in case) and then they have to get themselves into the correct Dewey order. We do this a few times.  From Melissa in the School Librarian's Workshop Facebook Group.

Resources:

• Looking @ Creating a Meaningful Library Orientation

• Joyce Valenza's Orientation Inspiration for SLJ

• Mrs. ReaderPants

• Orientation using Memes by Naomi Bates

• Orientation Prezi by Jane Lofton

• Orientation Using Memes by Elsa Ouvrard-Prettol