Jefferson City Librarians Present: Tried and True Part II

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Jefferson City Librarians PresentTried and
True Part II
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Orientation Scavenger Hunt

• Show student's Scavenger Hunt Sheet.
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• Show the blue labels and explain about the
  letters that are added with a visa vie marker.
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• Give examples of phrases that are "discovered"
  when all blanks are filled.

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Fancy Nancy Tea Party

• Display Fancy Nancy books
• Show pictures
• Give outline of planned party activities
• Demonstrate how to make a hat

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How to get books returned at end of year

• Wall charts for grade level and teacher
• Students earned an extra recess if their books
  were turned in.   
• Students earned a candy bar when they turned in
  their books.    
• The Library Fairy collects books  hands out
  candy bars.     
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National Library Week
If You Feed Them They Will Come        
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Fiction Call Numbers

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• Review location information while classroom
  teacher assigns partners.
• Using red and green "bookmarks" students play a
  game to practice locating books.
• Starting with red markers, partners locate the
  book and put the red marker in it.  Then they
  tell the teacher and they receive a point.
• Get another red marker from the LMS until all are
  gone.
• Then give green markers.  When students find the
  books there should be a red marker there.  They
  bring the red and green markers back to the LMS
  and get another point.  They continue finding
  books with the green markers until all markers
  are returned.
• Check to see "how we did" . 
• Watermelon cheer for the top three finder pairs,
  cantelope cheer for everyone else.
•  Also, recognize a couple of pairs that worked
  well as a team.
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Dictionary Drills

• Purpose to allow students to practice finding
  words in the dictionary.
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• Using dictionaries, students will find various
  words as they compete in teams.
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Recyled Showme

• Make activities for each current year Show Me
  Readers Award Nominees and then use them to
  introduce to students in coming years.
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• Examples  Melissa Parkington's Beautiful,
  Beautiful Hair, Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader
  Behind, One Potato, Two Potato, Hero Cat

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Library Games

• Diamond Dewey
• Heads Up Dewey Up
• Title Page Beachball
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• Library behavior and book care board game