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 they work on 2- and 3-year cycles, and require unique curricula. So the lessons at each school are very different every week.
Above is the shelf at Wilson where I keep everything I’ll use to teach during that particular day. Today, I taught 5 classes, grades 1, 2 and 4.
This is the main setting for the lecture/intro parts of lessons: the Smartboard (an electronic whiteboard), book box, storytime chair (for the younger grades), my Mac for PowerPoints and Smartboards to display, and for technology, catalog and database demonstrations. Each library class at Wilson is 40-50 minutes long, with each class coming once a week.
Each of the 12 classes at Wilson has named the pink clock on the wall. It is a classroom management tool that I use every single day. It doesn’t operate, but I set it to a “choosing time” for end of class. If I have to wait a minute for the class to settle, then they have to wait a minute for me to finish up…it’s based on Love and Logic.
2 Comments
November 14, 2008 at 3:48 am
I’m so tickled you are our librarian, Grace! This is an impressive blog and I learned more about our own library as well as those 50 and 70 miles away! I do hope you have good tires, my dear. : )
November 15, 2008 at 3:05 am
WOW! This is GREAT, Grace. When are you finding time to sleep?? Thanks for all of your hard work. Thanks to Patty, too. You two make a wonderful pair for the kids at Wilson.