[CASL-L] pre-school library

[Marchisio, Linda]

I am a PreK-5 school and do 5 PrK classes a week.  Our PreK is age 3 & 4 together which actually can be age 2-5 depending on the time of year and birthdays.  My classes are 40 minutes which is long for the age group.  Just finished my 3 year doing this.
Here is the format that works for me:

  *   Opening songs and fingerplays
  *   Intro to the read aloud book topic, author, illustrator, if its about pets I ask what pets they have, etc.  It varys to match the book and the objective of reading the particular book
  *   Read aloud
  *   Coloring a picture with individual discussion of the book (thinking and retelling time).  Picture has connection to the book and practice for writing your name.  I resisted having a picture to color at first.  So old school and seemed so simple but I discovered the children requested coloring every class after I did one.  They need the fine motor skills.  The need the social conversation while they color.  I move table to table and have conversations with the kids.  I print the title of the book and author on the coloring sheet and information for parents so when the picture goes home, its also a mini newsletter or at least a reminder that their kids have library once a week with them.
  *   dancing and singing along with videos
  *   closure




Linda Marchisio
Library Media Specialist
International Magnet School for Global Citizenship
CREC (Capitol Region Education Council)
625 Chapel Street, South Windsor, CT 06074
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From: CASL-L [casl-l-bounces at mylist.net] on behalf of Farrales, Christine [cfarrales at east-haven.k12.ct.us]
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 10:04 PM
To: casl-l at mylist.net
Subject: [CASL-L] pre-school library

Dear Colleagues,

 Next year I will have a fixed schedule and will be servicing preschoolers, ages 3 to 5 years.

 I would appreciate information from anyone who serves preschool age children regarding the format of a library special/type of activities done with this age group.

Thank you,


Christine Farrales
K-2 Library Media Specialist



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