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.