Five for Friday 9/9/16

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I guess I should start calling these Five for Saturday, because I rarely post them on a Friday. 

Here are some weekly cat pics that will make you smile. 

International Literacy Day

I dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, the art teacher was the Big Bad Wolf and the P.E. coach was my Granny. The kids loved it!

Book Fair

Anything that could go wrong during my very first book fair went wrong. The truck that the books were being delivered on broke down. They ended up arrived at 7:15 am on Grandparent's Day and Grandparents started coming to shop at 8:30. The amazing media specialist that retired last year and I am now working in her place came to help and we got it done. She is a rock star at setting up the book fair and answered about a million questions I had during the it all. There were also so many grandparents shopping that the line wrapped out of the media center and down the hall. 

 That was just the first thing that happened, then the AC started to make this loud crazy noises during the book fair. Maintenance came out at about 12 to work on it and now the AC doesn't work in half the media center until a part comes back. 

Then a light fell from the ceiling and starting smoking! Yes, real smoke! Evidently, we had some kind of electrical issue, but again the maintenance guys came to the rescue and resolved that issue. 

Basically, I feel that I have been properly introduced into the madness of having a book fair and may be invincible now.

Here's the Photo Booth area our amazing parent volunteers added.

When is the last time you were literally patted on the back?

Last week I introduced students to Caine and his arcade he made from cardboard. Now we watched the follow up video and joined the movement. We are going to participate in the Global Cardboard Challenge!

I am late to the game on this, but I made my own bitmoji! It's way too fun!

We are working on improving the outside of our new home! We are adding a fire pit and outside rock patio. 

Here is the before photo and materials.

The after photo is coming soon....

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Five for Friday- 9/2/16

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My principal and AP performed a song for Pay Day this week as George Jefferson and Weezie!

I turned some bookshelves into Technology Booths/Nooks in the media center. The stools are wobble chairs. I found them on amazon HERE.

Some new books came in to add to our collection from Scholastic and Follett. I love how the Follett books come with the call numbers already on the books. 

Podcasts and Makerspaces

I plan to start centers when students come to the media center during specials, but first we are learning what these centers are and what is expected at each one. 

I introduced the idea of creating a podcast book review during this time. I have a script that students can fill out for the book they are reviewing and then they will use garageband app to add music and record their book review.

We listened to examples from this website:

http://www.runkle.org/Podcasts/index.html

We also discussed what MakerSpace is and how I expect students to create something at this center. For inspiration we watched this 9 year old create an entire arcade from cardboard. It was so sweet watching student reactions to this video and how they were routing for Caine and now want to start creating!

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Getting ready for my first Book Fair! Can you tell it is Pirate themed?

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Five for Friday- 8/19/16

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Back to School!

We actually just completed our 3rd week back at school.

New Look in the Media Center

This is my first year as the media specialist at my school and I wanted to change a few things. 

I added this wonderful tapestry from society6 to add some color and inspiration to the media center. 

New labels for our computers!

A new sign to remind students to turn their books in! 

Bulletin Board and Activities!

As an introduction to the Media Center, we read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and then students created their own comic strip about what the sneaky pigeon would do if he had your library book.

During the second week, we reviewed internet safety. I made some Internet Safety Posters as well. 

You can find them HERE. 

Co-Teach with Technology

One of the best things about my new position is that one week out of the month I get to go into classroom for Co-Teach using Technology.

This month I worked with various teachers to create blabbers with their students. I try to plan activities that go along with what the teachers are currently working on. First grade is completing an author study about Kevin Henkes so we had students draw Lilly for Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and then had students write about what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. After that we uploaded their picture onto blabberize.com and recorded each student reading their own writing. 

Here is one of the end products. 

Smore!

I've started to use smore.com to create flyers and newsletters. This site is super user friendly and extremely visually appealing to those that view it. I like that it has a view counter as well where I can see how many people have viewed the flyers I send out. I created one last week for the faculty to read about my latest co teach experience as well as changes to the media center. It's a great resource for sending newsletters to parents. 

I am currently getting working on my media specialist certification at West Georgia and I've used smore multiple times for class assignments. Here is one I recently created to introduce myself to my professor and classmates.

Click to view the flyer HERE

Changes at Home

Yes, you heard correct, my husband and I bought our first house. :) We then painted every single room including the closets a nice gray. We ended up using Sherwin Williams Krypton. It's a bluish gray. I am a huge fan of Fixer Upper and it seems like something that Joanna would use. We also refinished a dining room table and chairs, hung new ceiling fans and a chandelier. Here is a photo of the dining room. 

We also added some additions to our family in the form of cats! Three kittens walked into my parents yard where they have dogs. The dogs attacked them, the kittens survived and now we have 3 cats at our new house. We grown to love them. Even though they all want to lay on my lap whenever I am trying to work on my laptop!

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