Re: [ha-Safran]: looking for library programming ideas- 3/4th grades
Hi Rachel, Two things that might work are a bingo game and a scavenger hunt. With the bingo game, you can ask the students to find certain kinds of books with certain information. With the scavenger hunt, your clues would be directing them to the books or items, so you could tell them to look in a dictionary for a definition, or an encyclopedia for a famous person's birthday, etc. That way they are learning some basic library skills at the same time. Also check out www.chinuch.org for programming ideas. Kol tuv, Kathe Pinchuck SSC Secretary Past Chair- Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee Association of Jewish Libraries --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Looking for library programming ideas- 3/4th grades
Rachel, In reply to your follow up question. Here is a list of stories that are published in different versions. Divide the students into 2 or 3 groups. Ask each to read a version tell the story to the other groups and compare the versions. I have not been working for almost two years so I hope that I remember correctly Yettele's feathers by Joan Rothenberg (or Ruthenberg) Feathers by Heather Forest Feathers in the wind by Marian Chaikin All three stories are easy reading so the children will have time to read and compare. It is about the damage done by gossip. In the collection of stories Ten best Jewish children stories By Chan and Daniel Sperber there is a story titled The love of two brothers There are at least two more versions The brothers promise by Frances Haber and Brothers: a Hebrew legend by Florence Freeman A legends about brothers caring for each other. When I read it to children I always finish with the song heenay ma tov umah naeem. Something from nothing by Phoebe Gilman Joseph had a little overcoat by Simms Taback About grandpa making something new each time when the coat gets too small. There are many versions of the story about the man that complains that the Rabbi his house is too crowded. It appears in many collections of short stories under the title It could be worst. If you put a question on Ha-Safran you will get more replies that you can imagine for the titles of a book or a collection of stories. Or email to Linda Silver silve...@roadrunner.com or Heidi Estrin he...@cbiboca.org . They don't even need to look it up to reply. I hope that this helps. Amalia Warshenbrot Director emeritus Levine-Sklut Judaic Library Resource Center Charlotte NC Email: amalia...@att.net Phone: 704-365-3313 - Original Message - --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: looking for library programming ideas- 3/4th grades
Hi, My religious school director has asked me to come up with some sort of library programming for the 3-4th grade students when they visit the library as part of their Religious School curriculum. We originally had an idea to do mini research projects. The idea was that I would give them some sort of question on a Jewish topic, and they would need to research the answer. The idea was that the question was supposed to be somewhat open ended and could have more that one answer. For example, What do we do at the end of Yom Kippor? Possible answers could include: eat, havdalah, blow the shofar, kiddush lavanah. etc and then they would discuss their answers with their teacher and myself. This program didn't work out for 2 reasons:1) I couldn't find age-appropriate Jewish reference sources for them to use, and 2) They attend a variety of different schools during the week, and I found that some of the kids didn't have the library skills to look up things in the encyclopedia, etc... If you have any suggestions for Jewish themed activities and programs that you do with middle elementary, I would love to hear them. Thanks so much, Rachel Lewin Myerberg Library The Day School at Baltimore Hebrew/Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Baltimore, Maryland rle...@bhcds.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
