First week September 2012

Angry birds bulletin board received many comments from all ages.
First time I am assigning seats to all classes.
And, 45 minutes for kindergarten. My helpers with orientation were giddy, and the kinders were baffled.

The Centered School Library: Shelf Markers with Bar Codes

The Centered School Library: Shelf Markers with Bar Codes

Look at this! Really nice to be mentioned in this blog post.

Teacher days

Welcome to 2012/13. It's a new year with many new faces, ideas and spanking fresh bulletin boards. Lot's of evidence of pinterest use abounds.The library was used all day, so I didn't get a chance to set up the tables until the last hour. Ready for Tuesday.

More Kindergarten lessons

Love Charlie and Lola! For the kinders. And how awesome is Flotsam?

More 4th grade booktalks

The rest of the items for the Nutmeg Award nominee booktalks.

CMT Pep and a Luau

 Cheerleaders from the high school visit to excite our kids. Too bad the C is reversed.

 This weeks 4th grade book talk books.

 Kindergarten materials.

 Preparation for our kiss the pig day.

 Kindergarten watched the book fair video.

 Assigned for shark reports, I erred in previous post, we used the whale shark instead of great white. And note the dot question derived from previous post, to get them thinkin'.

 Theme of book fair!

 Nutmeg book nominees on sparkly display

 Read-in theme is luau, love our library tikis created by our art teacher.

Read aloud for 2nd grade to get interested in sharks.

 Doesn't every library have  a volcano and palm tree?

 Book fair books from video

 Luau read-in! Bring your beach towel.

 Author visit for grade 4. Florida storyteller.

Kindergarten treasure box/ pencil/ books for fiction and non-fiction.

 Trying to get students to line up their chairs using orange dots, before the peeling off started...

 Grade 2 books for 500s.

 Grade 3 rock research.

 Materials for 2nd grade.

 Ahh Gloria, materials and video. Grade 1

 Grade 1 loved this book!

 Grade 3 lesson on plagiarism.

Guess what day it is?

Kindergarten materials. Read all together.

February materials

 Kindergarten lesson in February

 1st grade lesson in Feb.

 Comments by 1st grade on Lincoln

 Books read to 1st grade

Books for 2nd grade lesson on 400s

Yeah! I am back - and ready to post the rest of the pictures from the school year. The order may not be chronological due to the effects of the summer slide I am experiencing. Here goes...

The above was the culminating product for grade 2 shark research. 4 types of sharks were assigned per class. Depended on what table number you sat at whether you studied hammerhead, nurse, mako (favorite) or great white. Students wrote up findings and designed their shark with impressive results. They used websites and books, too.

I updated this board most weeks with library activities and hung it in the display case along side new books.

Sorry - I have been remiss

I have taken a break from posting, but not from taking pictures. So bear with me while I catch up. I probably will be posting pix in reverse order. I do hope to catch up soon as possible even if the year is 9 days from being over!

This is the greatest thing I discovered this year. Photographing my lesson materials for an archive. I can store these digitally or print and file for easy retrieval. This way I can figure what to use for next year or what really should be changed. The above shows the books I read before our annual library bingo session.  Everyone is a winner! I labeled every item that was given away - don't want the books, magazines or trading cards to come back to the library. The books are favorites in getting  grade 1 -3 excited for visiting the public library. The boy who was raised by librarians is notable for inference concepts.

Staff retirement dinner. Everyone loved the year books we provided. Some dating back to the 70s.