Library Signage FREEBIE

O those library signs...
I am always looking for ways to help my students become self served patrons in my media center.  I want them to be able to locate what they want easier and quicker.

This year I created more signage for my library!  I hope this will help my kiddos or atleast allow me to point to the sign from across the room to help them locate what they are looking for.

Here is the sign I have for poems.

My sign for pets and in the background animals.

Feel free to use these signs in your library, HOPE YOU ENJOY!
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THEM HERE

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Five For Friday with the Teacher Librarian

 Five for Friday is a weekly teacher linky party where you post five random things from today or this past week and on your blog. Then, you come back and link your blog post up at the bottom of this post in the linky tool.Grab the button above and link back to this post on your blog.

My sister posted this on my facebook yesterday because like everywhere it is COLD outside.  Plus as a little girl I loved watching wrestling and Ric Flair was one of my favs, don't ask, it is hard to believe I watched it but I did and loved it so much my sweet daddy took me to see them on a couple of occasions.

Baby it's Cold!!!! Wooooooooooo

Baby it's COLD outside is also the title of my centers for January.  How fitting is that.  If you have bought my centers before, these are just as good and are themed for January.

Be sure to pick up this months library center here.

A New year and I am reading to change it up a little.  I am working with my 1st and 2nd graders doing research.  Scroll to the next post and you will get some FREE stuff to help you out.  My district uses the research model eWISE which has helped me explain to the kids the process of research.  Be sure to scroll to the post after this one to READ ALL ABOUT IT>

During the break I worked on some close reading for President's Day.  The passages are written on three different levels to meet the needs of all the students and differentiate. 

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And lastly, who doesn't wait till after all the festivities to get back on track with health.  So I overindulged this break and now I am paying for it!!!  Time to get back to my low carb and 5k. 

Don't know how I cooked low carb before without Pinterest!!! Great recipes, had the spaghetti squash carbonara last night...look it up, it's delicious!

Check out Doodle Bugs Teaching blog for more Five for FRIDAYS! and be sure to follow my blog for more FUN!

Second Research

It's a new year and time to try some new stuff!

 I am put off doing too much independent research with my little ones just because the time I have with them is short, and I just haven't' been brave enough to let them loose. But this year I am giving it a go.

Coming back from winter break and tackling it head on!! Our county has a research model that we have adopted called eWISE.

 I made posters for the acronym at the beginning of the year to look nice and pretty but now it's time to put those babies to use.

 I introduced the model with Wonder. I talked about how I wonder about things, like what do snakes eat, how many babies do kangaroos have, what are meerkats. Then I talked to students about where you find those answers. In the library! You can find them in the nonfiction books or the internet sites that our county pays for NCWiseOwl.

Here is the Wonder poster and Investigate poster I made to guide them.

This discussion of wondering lead to talking about how to find out the answers of my wonders.  To find answers, we investigate.

How do we investigate, we read the text we found about our wonders.

After modeling how to do this, students were open to wonder about any animal they wanted using the Amazing Animals website we have at our school.  

Then I had the kids read or investigate the text to find answers.

Students then Synthesize (the s in eWISE) by writing 4 facts about what they had read.

I was surprised how busy they were, were they really investigating and researching or were they still asleep from winter break...

I think they were learning.  They used this print out I got free somewhere on Pinterest.

We stopped there because time ran out and I am trying to decide if we are going to do more with that they learned Express it (the e in eWISE) or if we are just going to continue to practice the act of researching??

Here are the posters and things I used if you want it!!!

eWise POSTERS

What's new in your library or classroom?