While November is a week shorter due to Thanksgiving break, it was still an action packed month. Check out the fun we had below!
The month started off with a bang on November 1st as my aide and I were invited to attend the Garland Education Foundation breakfast to encourage local business to contribute donations. We were able to show off our coding mouse and our Beebots. We even saw another fabulous librarian there-Mrs. Fisher! The food was delicious and it was nice to be able to thank the people who fund our projects in person.
After working for what has seemed like weeks, I am finally done processing the new library books! I learned a valuable lesson, which is to always carefully review your processing selections when ordering! Thankfully Follett was nice enough to send me the labels so I could do it myself. The new books are ready to be gobbled up. Special shoutout to my aide and the IRC staff for putting plastic covering on many, many books.
November is Picture Book Month so our wonderful assistant principal Mrs. Pacheco read a fun Thanksgiving book to the kindergarten and first grade classes.
This book fair purchase from last year has become a favorite among the students and myself. All of the books by Lucille Colandro are big hits and frequently checked out in our library!
Our staff members recommended picture books to the students in this interactive hallway display. It was so fun to see the staff get excited about remembering the picture books that touched their lives.
I did my first i3 webinar of the year over digital choice boards. It was a little challenging doing it on our Chromebooks for the first time, but if you fast forward through the first part, then I hope you can learn some great information on how to create your own digital choice boards! :)
I attended an i3 (innovation in instruction) training towards the end of the month and we learned about many cool things involving technology. Here we were discussing Flocabulary. I thought it was just for social studies, but it was exciting to find out that it involves all subjects and even has raps for library skills!
I am so excited that we now have our own Little Free Library in front of the school. Our PTA worked really hard to get this project going and the community is already enjoying it!
I used our book fair bonus points to purchase books for every classroom in our school. I even was able to donate some to our Little Free Library. I feel like Santa when I get to deliver shiny new books!
My technology challenge of hunting for QR code turkeys that linked to i3 webinars was not very successful this month, but we will see how next month's challenge goes. Coding club for 5th graders has been great and they have been creating their own games in Scratch. I cannot believe we only have two more sessions left!
I am very excited that our district's librarians have their own 12 Days of Twitter Challenge going! We started the week after Thanksgiving and it has been a lot of fun to see all the responses so far. Our heads are full of hashtags and Twitter Fairies!
While I did not do much cooking over the holiday, I did enjoy eating lots of yummy food that my family made. I also was able to reflect on all of the blessings we have. One of them is that I get to do my dream job everyday!
