WASLing
Weeks 16th-20th & 23rd-27th
Since our schedule is a little off due to the WASL I have been working on small projects. One thing that I am going to do that I'm excited about is fix up the part of the books that are arranged by the dewey decimal system (the non-fiction books). Right now, on the shelf below the books there is just a label with the call numbers that the shelf contains (i.e. 341.002-345.1). We were thinking we could make labels that contains the subject and the call number, so that the students can browse the shelves more easily. We also want to create a corresponding wall chart. So I went to the public library to find kid literature on the dewey decimal system. There is only a small section of books on libraries in the children's library in Bellingham, but they're fun, and I couldn.t help checking out a few others. Here's some pictures of ones that I grabbed.
This is a really simple book about the Dewey Decimal system. I am going to use it as a reference for this project.
This book was mentioned in Sacred Stacks, about the saving of the books of Iraq. It is laid out like a graphic novel.
This is a book we read to the younger students during library. It's pretty cute. Although it does not directly reference it, I think it might have been inspired by the lion sculpture outside the New York Public Library.
And...here are a couple others...
