We keep the old card catalog as a display in the hall because it’s so fun to look in:
Below are the binders the 3-5th graders will fill in during library class during their Big 6 research projects. Wilson is the only school where I teach single grades – the other schools have combined grades, so [...]
A typical Wilson pile: pages from encyclopedia for student’s Big 6 research project, receipts to record in the various school budgets, books on hold, catalogs to go through and orders to phone in. It’s a paperwork blitz!
Gumdrop books, ready for cataloging…
Books from Alta, cataloged there and ready to be processed and brought back (no processing [...]
The circ desk, where the check-out magic happens, and much of the processing, cataloging, and other administrative work.
One of the computers the students use for classes and labs, and then our non-fiction section.
Displays (and the goose) still in tact…
But some lesson planning to be done in “the horseshoe!” (Where the kids sit during presentations and [...]
While my time is divided amongst the four libraries, I spend the most at Wilson Elementary School, in Wilson, Wyoming, which has about 200 students. I teach grades K-5, two sections of each, and teaching is mainly what I do. I have a fabulous para there, Patty, who works there on the days I am [...]
The fiction collection here has a lot of paperback books and very long shelves, which means the books get out of order easily and they fall, or even explode off of the shelves when students are using the bookends – if there are bookends. I am hoping to get more soon.
But, for now, on the [...]
I get to spend about 3-4 hours a week (an afternoon) working at the Moran school library, which is up north, right near Yellowstone National Park, at the Moran Junction. It is about 40 minutes drive each way, depending on road closures. There are two teachers and a dog, and sometimes in the playground, you’ll [...]
