Location! Location!
Location!
Students are
learning how to locate books in the Crockett Library.
Kindergarteners worked on how books in the
Everybody Section are put on the shelves in ABC order by the author’s last
name. Their challenge was to put a set
of letters that each held in ABC order. 
First graders did a great job of writing the first three letters of
their last names on a pumpkin cut-out , and taping it to the part of the
Everybody section shelves where a book they “authored” would be shelved.
Second
graders were given Dewey numbers to find a book for check-out. They learned about Melville Dewey and how
books with similar themes are shelved together. 
Third and
Fourth graders looked at the call numbers on the spine labels of books from the
Dewey section, Biography section, Everybody section and different genres from
the Fiction section. They learned how to
use the OPAC (online public access catalog) to search for books and to use the
call numbers to locate a book. 
Fifth and
Sixth graders have had plenty of time to get familiar with the genres in the
Fiction section so they were given a Genre
Challenge test on paper. This
required them to read a description of a Fiction book and decide which genre
they felt it would fit under.
Results: many of them decided to
check-out a book from a genre they had not tried before.
