Each year it is always very exciting to introduce our newest FPG students to the library and all the fun you can have in a exploratory space filled with books, technology, and learning. The first two lessons of the year with Kindergartners have been fun, fun, and more fun!! As a way to introduce them to the fun in reading we chose two separate themes for these lessons. The first theme revolved around apples being that September is National Apple Month. Students listened to an interactive read aloud of 10 Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSeig and then sang a super silly song entitled "Apples and Bananas". Of course, the students giggled more than sang as they played on the words by replacing bananas with banoonoos and baneenees. We wrapped up our time in the library by placing apples up on top of our own heads by making apple hats. By the end of the lesson we were all ready for a nice big delicious bite out of an juicy apple!
Our most recent lesson revolved around Pirates as we celebrated National Talk Like A Pirate Day. And no lesson about pirates is complete without real pirate eye patches and a few "Arggghhhh's" thrown in! We had soooo much fun when we realized that pirates stopped by our FPG library, made a mess of some of the books, and left their eye patches behind for us to wear. We got to be real pirates as we shared the book, How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long. Afterwards we found library treasure maps the pirates left for us and we used them to explore the different areas of our library and found a treasure waiting for us in the picture book section! We wrapped up our time together with an animated pirate song on the Smart Board.
I can tell that the next several years are going to be LOTS of fun with some wonderful learning experiences to look forward to together. I am always reminded of the power of books and how they can spark imagination and curiosity in kids when I work with the kindergartners. And while we may not really be pirates, we sure do find treasure in the books we read.
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