We're Thankful for November Library Lessons

November was by far the biggest month yet for our library program here in the North Andover Public Schools! Not only did we have lots of fun in the library with our lessons, but we also had Jacqueline Woodson come to speak to the entire school district!

It was so exciting, and lots of students have been requesting books by Ms. Woodson since the visit.

November was a combination of traditional library lessons and technology lessons, which made it a very dynamic month! The first weeks of library lessons had kids participating in Scavenger Hunts - the kindergarteners went on a hunt for monkeys in the library after reading Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett, which got them familiar with all of the different sections of the library.

Check out this book in the Stevens library catalog!

The first and second graders found monkeys in the library too, but they had to use clues to find specific monkeys - this scavenger hunt tested their knowledge of the sections of the library, and we found it to be trickier than we thought!

The 3-5th graders participated in a scavenger hunt that mimicked their lesson on using the catalog - we ran a keyword search in the catalog, cut out the titles, and broke up into teams to try and find as many of the titles in the library as we could! We've noticed that the older kids are much more comfortable finding books in the library on their own now, since they now fully understand the information from the catalog. 

December has been all about the Hour of Code - check out our post to find out more!