A newly-released character sketch of Marian the Librarian from The Music Man gives us more of her back story!
Does your district recognize the need for evolving school libraries? As I've written before, I believe school libraries are more relevant today than ever before... IF they are evolving to meet the needs of 21st Century students. I love this quote from the Mediamorphosis website, "The library, as we once knew it, may no longer
Just last night, the Broadway revival of The Music Man opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, starring Tony-winners Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. Check out a first look at the cast in action!
Librarians select informational resources and teach people how to use them. Learn about their education, skills, salary, and more.
Adopt-A-Shelf is something I’ve been considering for my library for some time now. A few weeks ago, several librarians were discussing it on my state’s listserv, so I thought I would start it in my library for the upcoming school year. I’ve been working hard on all the materials so you don’t have to! I’ve
Rachel Weisz in The Mummy, Seinfeld's Bookman, and more excellent librarians from pop culture.
It's that time of year and FALL is my favorite. I love the colors, the smells, the weather and most of all the books!! My favorite is CREE...
This year is the 10 year anniversary of International Dot Day and the 15th anniversary of the publication of The Dot. People all around the world celebrate creative expression, inspired by Peter H. Reynolds’ picture book, The Dot. Every year, Dot Day falls on or near September 15. I’d like to share how I helped my K-2 students explore their own creativity this year for
Free printable kids rebus puzzles in PDF form. These easy puzzles are a lot of fun and get children engaged and thinking about words.
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Library Escape Rooms are really big right now, so I tried to design this program so that any library can try to duplicate it. Because making something like this is kinda daunting–where do yo…
Classroom management in the school library with an simple system from our guest blogger in Ohio!
If you have ever visited my website, "Lee Ann's Girl Guide Notebook", you may have already seen this Rebus activity. I had originally scanned it from the Friendship Flyer that once was distributed to Guiders years ago around Thinking Day or as an insert in the Canadian Guider magazine. I did not see a date on the flyer but it refers to Canada's 125th Birthday so I am guessing it was distributed around February 1992. Guide, Pathfinder, and Senior Branches {now Rangers} are the suggested age groups for this activity but Brownies and Sparks can do it too! I can see many possibilities with this activity. It would be great for a gathering activity or as a Guide Patrol activity. Guide Patrols could make a Rebus then exchange it with the other Patrols. First explain/show what a Rebus message is. {a puzzle consisting of pictures representing syllables and words. For example in such a puzzle the word hear might be represented by H followed by a picture of an ear}. Provide catalogs, magazines, stickers, clip art etc for each Patrol...or they can just draw the pictures themselves. Allow about 15 minutes for making the Rebus message. {Advise them to choose short messages otherwise it will take the entire meeting! You could assign certain Guide laws for each Patrol to turn into a rebus message...or anything else relating to Guiding...the possibilities are endless}. Then switch Rebus messages with other Patrol groups..allow 5 minutes to decipher. Provide each Patrol with a blank piece of paper and pencil so they can write down the deciphered message. Then gather all Patrols together and take turns reading the messages. Here are the answers for the above Rebus if you can not make out the writing on the bottom: A) You are my friend. B) I can't wait to go to my Guide meeting. C) Will you take me to a Pathfinder meeting? Here are a couple of Rebus messages that I made...I just have way too much fun making this stuff! This one has a lot of words to decipher so read the rows carefully from left to right as best as you can. {It is a little crowded since I wanted it all on one page}
The role of archivists has always been in flux, responding to the needs of the information world and providing the unique skill sets that librarians, historians, and records managers may understand but do not hold. Archivists are colleagues to librarians, historians, and records managers, but are a
After twelve years in the same K-12 school library, I am ready for change! Oh, I’ve moved things around and redecorated the eight bulletin boards hundreds of times. Technology has taken its t…
Everything you need to know about dyslexia and how to better serve youth with dyslexia in your library
To succeed as a first-time School Librarian—or as a veteran in a new library position—we need to learn everything about our library and school, listen to everyone and ask questions, and leave every…
This is 58 pages of printables for any librarian who needs something fast and simple for elementary students. Great to pull out for sub plans, centers or when you are in a crunch. Includes Fiction and Nonfiction comparing Summarizing Predictions Main Idea Scavenger Hunts Word Search Connect the do...
If you were to walk into my classroom, there is a very good chance that music will be playing. Whether that be as background noise or as a classroom management tool, I cannot go without music in my classroom! Click HERE for all of my school appropriate playlists! Our kids now are stimulated 24/7 by all of the technology at their fingertips. They are watching Netflix, while Snapchatting, while playing a video game all at the same time! They go from an overstimulated environment at home, to school where they are expected to be quiet the majority of their day…
Book display--get hooked on the first sentence. Open to discover the book! #engchat #reading #elemchat
One of the things I’ve become known for is my colorful and visually engaging (and non-typical) shelving strategies. I like to call this “Dynamic Shelving” and I love employing the…
One of the goals I have as a Media Specialist is to teach my patrons how to locate the materials they need and want without assistance. Of course, I am always willing to help, but if they can find it on their own, they won't have to wait for me to be free to assist them. I am (hopefully) accomplishing this goal by interweaving my Genre of the Month lessons with lessons about call numbers, sections in the Media Center and using Destiny, our online catalog. This month I taught a lesson about fantasy fiction to my second, third, fourth, and fifth grade classes and reviewed the different sections of the Media Center as well as how to locate a book using Destiny. I made a PowerPoint to discuss these items and at the end of the lesson, I had students do an activity where they had to look at the call number of a book and tell what section of the Media Center they would go to find the book. I emphasized the importance of using the provided search slips next to the computers to write down the title and call number of the book so that they wouldn't have to run back and forth from the computer to the shelves if they forgot what they were looking for. I think it has worked because I am finding search slips all over the Media Center. Apparently I needed to remind them to throw their search slips away once they locate a book, not leave them on the shelves. LOL At least they are using the slips. If you're interested in the activity sheet, you can get a copy here. Please note that this file is NOT editable. You can also snag a copy of the search slips I use here. Please note that this file is NOT editable. Hope you can use these. =)
