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The Library staff teaches a progressive program of skills instruction in all grades. Primary level activities are centered around literature appreciation while the middle grades concentrate on information and media literacy..

To see what we are doing in a specific class this week click on the grade level below:


Kindergarten	First grade	Second Grade	Third Grade	Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade	Sixth Grade	Seventh Grade	Eighth Grade

Kindergarten

Month	Theme
September	stories about starting school, families decorate book-saver boxes learning how to care for library books
October	Halloween stories!
November	Autumn/ Food/ Thanksgiving
December	Books about winter holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
January	Stories about friendship and equality; Library Friendship Tree project
February	Fiction and non-fiction books about dinosaurs
March	Springtime! Gardens, bugs, and farms
April	Fairy Tales
May	Picture book classics

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First Grade

Month	Theme
September	stories about starting school, families decorate book-saver boxes learn how to use Save My Spot shelf passes
October	Halloween Stories! Save My Spot shelf passes
November	Stories about Art and Artists
December	Stories about winter
January	Stories from all the continents: Africa Asia Australia
February	Europe and Antarctica North America South America
March	Poetry and stories that rhyme
April	Paired fiction and non-fiction
May	Summertime fun

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Second Grade

Month	Theme
September	How to find the right book for me Introduction to genres Captain Book: Library Superhero
October	Halloween Stories! parody allusions idioms figures of speech
November	Map of the library scavenger hunt Favorite book posters
December	Holidays around the world; Holiday research
January	Chinese Folklore
February	Aesop's Fables
March	Tall Tales
April	Fractured Fairy Tales
May	More Fractured Fairy Tales

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Third Grade

Month	Theme/Lesson
September	What is a story? What are the elements of a story? Locating different kinds of stories in the Town library Using the library catalog and self-checkout system
October	Mystery Stories and Horror Stories (introduction to genres) Piggins and mystery keywords: crime, evidence, clue, suspect, motive, mystery Sherlock Holmes Build Your Own Scary Story
November	Storytelling Through Pictures Wordless Picture Books
December	Storytelling Through Pictures Wordless Picture Books
January	School Stories from around the world
February	School Stories podcasts and CultureGrams videos Life Stories
March	Life Stories
April	Digital Stories
May

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Fourth Grade

Month	Lesson
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May

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Fifth Grade Media Literacy (co-taught with Technology department)

Date	Lesson
Week 1

Media Literacy Resources

Description	Resource

"When You're Done" Activities

Description	Resource
Mr. Picassohead - Make a creative self-potrait	http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
Smart Kit puzzles and games	http://www.smart-kit.com/
ThinkUKnow	http://thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/
Auditorium	http://www.playauditorium.com
Typer Shark	http://www.popcap.com/games/free/typershark

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Sixth Grade

Library activities for each week are listed in the table below. Check back for weekly updates!

Educational Games resources:

Auditorium -- Force beams of light toward targets in order to create mysterious, otherwordly music. Can you solve these unusual puzzles?

Nobel Prize Games -- A series of flash games related to the work of prize-winning scientists.

Free Rice -- Help feed the hungry while simultaneously boosting your vocab! Warning, this game is more addictive than you'd think.

EdHeads -- Perform virtual surgery, analyze a crash scene, and explore the physics of some really weird simple machines.

Date	Lesson
Week 1	Battle of the Books introduction course goals

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Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade

Seventh and eighth graders in the Literate Writer class visit the library weekly for independent reading. Approximately once a month, the librarians give booktalks highlighting books they feel are of particular interest to this age group.

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