Sharing the Library and Its Resources with our Two-Year-OldStudents and Their Teachers Last week, one of the teachers of our school’s two-year-old program asked if she could bring her class to the library because they were studying “community helpers.” At my school, while the library serves all of the faculty with books and resources, students do not come to my library classes until they are in pre-kindergarten. I was thrilled to be able to show them around and to talk about the library and what it means to the community.
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Partnerships Make the (Library) World Go ‘Round
A school library builds on partnerships with public libraries, independent bookstores, and non-profits. Learn how to form your own partnerships for collaboration and synergy.
A New Back to School- Dealing with Screen Time
Yes, it is September! This time last year, many students and teachers had either just begun their school year or were gearing up to go back. This year looks a little different. With the pandemic still raging onward, many schools have chosen to start the school year either completely remote or are using a hybrid model where children switch between remote and in-person learning. This means there are many changes to come. With so many students doing their schooling from home, in addition to other media consumption, the concerns over screen time are valid! While previously, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) had recommended limits on how much screen time a child should have for children six and up, more recently they have changed this suggestion to creating a family media plan. Through their website, AAP has created a guide on how to set up a family media plan. These…
AASL 2018 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning #ALAAC18
What a great session from the AASL! While many librarians may be aware of the AASL’s annual listing of the best websites for teaching and learning, this session delved into each website giving information about the site, age levels, the standards the site addresses, and even showed short video clips about each site and its application. It was a fun way to learn about new resources, and I plan to experiment with a lot of these and hope to use them in my elementary school library curriculum next year. To check out the AASL’s best websites, here is the list… https://standards.aasl.org/project/bw18/ Past recommended websites can be found at: http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/websites And now, I am signing off to build my own code using Pencil Code!!! This post addresses the following ALSC Core Competencies: II. Reference and User Services and IV. Knowledge, Curation, and Management of Materials.
Map it! Write it! Yell it!
I’m ready for school! Singing the song, “Going back to Cali” by LL Cool J but I changed the words …”going back to school, to school, to school” and “I’m ready!” I have a jar pencils, a rolled up map of school books and four school poems to yell out. I’m ready for school open house nights!