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Randa Bruce Library Media Teacher Shadow Valley Elementary Ogden School District

Rolling With the Punches Randa’s Style

 Life Lessons I Have Learned: o Be a life- long learner

o Be flexible, you never know when “Murphy” will show up.

o What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger (long before Kelly Clarkston’s song!)

o “It’s the little things that matter that add up in the end…”

o Advanced preparation and prioritize, then you can meet “Murphy” head on!

o Give the students ownership

o Keep your eyes and ears open

o Let it go… makes life less complicated

 Management o Planner placed at the check out area

. Who comes when

. Who my assistants are in order of the day activities

. Topic of the lesson

. School events for the day

. Appointments/ meetings

. List new students on the day they arrived or date I learned of the arrival. Also when a student leave the school.

o Each class’s work is stored on the counter in a container with folders for each table.

o 10 minutes for book exchange ( this year it is after the lesson):

. Destiny quest: search for book or place one on hold

. Check out books with student librarians

. Students bring something in to read if not checking out . Students receive a preparation grade for the month from me that many of the teachers use in the grading system (preparation/ citizenship…)

o 20 minute lesson

o Reinforce our school rules: Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe, Be Ready

o Be FLEXIBLE

o Be CONSISTENT

 August 20: Train the first Shadow Valley Eagles Network (SVEN) Crew and prepare the PowerPoint format for the SVEN News broadcast

 August 21- September 7

 Meetings

 Assist teachers prepare: laminating, gathering library material etc. as well as set up the Library Media Center (LMC)

 Finalize LMC and PLC schedules

 Make sure Renaissance Place is up and running

 Create current years LMC assistants application forms  SVES Student Library Media Assistant Application 2012- 2013

Last Name ______First Name ______

Grade ______Teacher ______

1. I wish to help in the library because: ______. 2. Library experiences/ skills: ______. 3. Preferred library tasks: rank in order of preference, 1 being your top choice: a. _____ assist during my class’ LMC time b. _____ assist with kindergarten: ___ Tuesday 9:50-10:00 ____ 10:20-10:30 ___ Wednesday 10:20-10:30 ___ Thursday 10:20-10:30 ____ 1:50-2:00 ___ Friday 10:20-10:30 c. _____ assist with 1st grade: ____ Tuesday 2:50-3:00 ____ 3:20-3:30 ___ Wednesday 10:20-10:30 ___ Thursday 10:20-10:30 ___ Friday 10:20-10:30 d. ____ assist 2nd grade: ____ Tuesday 10:50-11:00 ____ 11:20-11:30 ____ 12:50-1:00 ____ Wednesday 12:50-1:00 ____ Thursday 12:50-1:00 ____ Friday 12:50-1:00 e. ____ Shelving books during recesses; check which day(s) of the week ____ Monday ____ Tuesday ____Wednesday ____ Thursday ____ Friday f. ____ Helping before school; check which day(s) of the week ____ Monday ____ Tuesday ____Wednesday ____ Thursday ____ Friday g. ____ Helping after school; check which day(s) of the week h. ____ Monday ____ Tuesday ____Wednesday ____ Thursday ____ Friday

______Student’s signature date

______Parent‘s signature date

______Teacher’s signature date

 August 20: Train the first Shadow Valley Eagles Network (SVEN) Crew and prepare the PowerPoint format for the SVEN News broadcast

 August 21- September 7

o Meetings

o Assist teachers prepare: laminating, gathering library material etc. as well as set up the Library Media Center (LMC)

o Finalize LMC and PLC schedules

o Make sure Renaissance Place is up and running

o Create current years LMC assistants application forms o Become reacquainted with Destiny and Destiny Quest

o Lesson planning- mapping out the year

 English Language Arts Crosswalk  Common Core Standards aligned to the AASL Standards o http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/commoncorecrosswalk/ccelafirst  September 10-October 31 o Beginning a new school year

o Library Expectations

o Locating, choosing , Destiny Quest, and care of books

o Library Media Assistant job application

. Checking out/in a book

. Shelve books

. Various tasks

o Library assistants: check books in and out

. Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd classes: 4th-6th assistants who applied for the job

3rd grade: class’ student of the week, teacher helper for the week…

4th, 5th, and 6th classes: assistants who applied for the job

. Library assistants sort and shelve books before and after school, or during recesses.

. Library assistants during their recesses help with various tasks I may need help with: stamping new books, collating and stapling packets, sharpening pencils, opening and closing the library for the day.…

o Media Literacy

. Everyone’s Purpose (PIE: Persuade, Inform, Entertain)

o 3 Rs

. Review

. Reflect

. React

o Genre (See Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes in Works Cited list) o Information Literacy

. Pioneer Online Library Scavenger Hunt

o When I teach how to created a bibliography for the first time each year I hand out graph paper for them to practice writing and spacing correctly.

o http://www.schools.utah.gov/CURR/library/Core-Curriculum/K-6-Core- Curriculum/Bibliographic.aspx

o Holiday stories (see Works Cited pages)

o Book Fair

. Run by the PTA

. I am able to choose books for the library with a major portion of the profits.

. I pull titles and then have the upper grades identify the genre, evaluate them and then make suggestions as which books should be added to our collection.

. With the younger grades I read some books from the fair.

 November 1 – January 11

o Storytelling (Also see works cited pages)

. recalling / retelling a story

. character traits

o summarizing

o storyboarding

o sequencing

. critiquing

o collaborating

o climax/ turning point

o point of view

o genre of their story

. Big6 . Modeling storytelling

. Poise

. Vocal Clarity

. Voice Expression

. Eye Contact

. Body Language

. Gestures

. Familiarity with the story

. Uniqueness

. Satisfying Ending

. Audience Appeal

o Point of view

. character traits

o Summarizing

. Genre

o Storyboarding, sequencing

o climax/ turning point

o recalling / retelling a story

. Big6

 January 14 – March 15

o Books: care of, parts of…

o Weber Reads (see works cited pages)

. Modified KWL chart

. Visited Google Earth:

. get a feeling/ understand the setting . Illustrator’s purpose o studied pictures to learn more about Emily than the author wrote

. Read a historical fiction

. note taking

. facts vs. opinion

. inferences, drawing conclusions, predicting

. Compare/ contrast life o in the 1800 vs. now

. Vocabulary building- context clues

. Analyzed 1 poem

. Mapping skills grades 4-6

. Viewed map of the community in 1873

. Locate Dickinson Family property

. Located Amherst College

. Google Earth :

. Located The Homestead, her home now a museum

. Located The Evergreens, her brother’s home

. Located the house across the street, the little girl’s home in the story, Emily by Michael Bedard

. Explored the community of Amherst, MA

. Latitude/ longitude

. Emily Dickinson’s Family Tree:

. graph/ charts

. identifying characters in the book

. Read a historical fiction:

. note taking . facts vs. opinion

o inferences, drawing conclusions

. Compare/ contrast life in the 1800 vs. now

. Vocabulary building- context clues

. Analyzed 2 poems

. reading graphs/ charts

o creating a graph/ chart: grades k-2 make their family tree

. characters of the book Uncle Emily

o Substitutes

. Almanac Jeopardy

 Table of Contents

 Index

 Key words in bold print

 Listening for key words in the questions to look up in the index

 Finding information on the correct page

 Reading charts, graphs, maps, nonfiction text

 Summarizing

 Predicting, inference, conclusions

March 18 – May 10

 eBooks: Follettshelf: train 2-3 students in each class, 3-6 grades, then they will assist in their class, article in newsletter.

 Review For End of Level test: get suggested topics to review from teachers

 Review Games

 Students’ evaluation of the year : favorite lessons, wish lists May 13-24

 Gather all books

 Pack up for the summer

 Shut all electronics down

 Yes, I have survived another year And so can you!!!

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