What are grades 4 and 5 doing in Media Sept and Oct?

Standard 1.1 Knows library procedures for circulation and equipment
1.3 Understands difference between fiction and nonfiction
1.4.1 Understands the ten major classes of the Dewey decimal system
1.4.2 Uses dewey Decimal system to locate books independently
1.5.1 Learns that fiction section is arranged alphabetically by authors last name
1.5.2 Identifies call number in fiction section as authors last name alphabetized to the first letter
1.5.3 and 1.5.4 alphabetizes to the second and third letter to locate books by call number

In order to acccomplish these standards, the students have used the following

Websites

Do We really Know Dewey?

Dewey Challenge Game

Do the Dewey Game

Gettting to know the Dewey Decimal System

Books

The Shelf Elf Helps out

"I've got your number" Library Comics

Dewey and the Decimals

Videos

The Sharp Wits Lure of the Library

The Sharp Wits Dewey Decimal Delimma

Media Mania Fiction Nonfiction

What is a Media center?

Games

Book Spine Bingo

Dewey Match

Lets Do the Dewey

Dewey Dog : I have a dogs with bones 000,100,200,300,400,500,600,700 800, 900, Fiction and Biography. The dog will hide a bone and I say "Where can I find a book about people?" etc. If the student gets the right answer they are a prize like a bookmark

Game Boards: I have 8 games boards one for each table. There are 4 categories
( ex: 100,200, 900, 500)Students have 12 sentence strips that have titles of books ex: Jewish Religion, Feelings, snakes and they have to put them in the right category

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Some students are doing a shelf hunt to find the different categories. We also have been playing a game called sticks and stones in which students are given sticks with the authors last name and they have to alphabetize using two to three letters to put the sticks in order. We also have been doing Dewey match, in which students have to put puzzle pieces together and arrange different Dewey categories in numerical order.