No 180

 I closed the library today for students to finish their iReady testing and not that many showed up. I was a bit taken aback. I had maybe 40 all day rather than 40 every period. I got all the checked in books put away and cleaned up the books for the classes coming in tomorrow. I went through all the Chromebooks that had been turned in and I seemed to find ten that were really all right and put them back to available. Then I took the ones that needed to be sent back, put them in piles of what was wrong and sent in a tech ticket on that. I had 33 Chromebooks that need to go back. I had students bring in more Chromecarts. We don't use them anymore and tech doesn't want them. I have 13 in the library workroom now, along with the four carts with the new math books. Three more Chromecarts in the textbook room and there are at least three more coming. I asked if we could move them and kind of got a 'there is nowhere else to put them' response, which really sets off my clutter alarm. I am really hoping they can find a place for them, but I have no idea how. Shipping container maybe???

NonStop

First of all our weekly meeting. Ms. G asked me to make some book talk slips for her kids. She wants the jacket blurb, and the first two pages all on just one page. I had done that last year and I managed to get her the ten she asked for me to get for her. I was so busy today. Classes in every period. I finished getting the math books ready for their teachers. Each book was individually shrink wrapped and I had to unwrap about 152 of them! That's crazy. I managed to get all the books checked in today from classes, but didn't get anything put away. I will do that tomorrow when I have iReady kids in the library. I had four shelves of books come in. I also got some books for another teacher who needed books to test bridge structure weight holds. Since I had some great books I was discarding and he took them. I had to mark out all the stamps and barcodes and mark them withdrawn. Chromebook issues here and there as well. Glad I got to just go home this afternoon.

iReady Help

 Today I was approached by my principal who asked if I could open the library up for iReady testing without our Instructional Coach there and I said, sure! I plunked the testing into my calendar and have Thursday set completely aside for testing. Then I saw the numbers of students that need to complete, about a third of them need to finish! Not sure what I've gotten myself into, but hopefully it'll work out. Had both lunches in today. I found out I could put out my little stools again, and the students loved having them out. I also had a student offer to clean up the Makerspace cart. I put her name in for student kudos for this week. Because of her, other students as got to enjoy using it as well! Finished up that cart of books and yes, they were all withdrawn already, thank goodness. Now I just need to box them up. Emailed a bit on the new math books, and it looks like we won't even barcode them, but let each teacher have a class set. I just want the boxes for my withdrawn books! I put away all those science books I got in yesterday. Checked out books here and there all day. Did some Chromebook things as well. A satisfying day all around!

VolleyBall!

 I got to score my first games in Volleyball tonight! Such exciting games! A real battle back and forth with high numbers from both teams, a real contest! Loved it! It went to almost 6:30! Crazy! Work was a bit quieter and easier! I had a cart in the back room I didn't know if I had withdrawn the books on it or not, so I spent a lot of time working on whether these books were in the computer or not, and so far, I've only found one that was still an active book. Checked in a whole cart and a half of science books from Mr. F. Had both lunches in today. 

Friday the 24th

Classes in all day and those are my favorite times. Ms. G's classes were in all day and what a great end to the week! Got in our new math books, so I checked them out and then with help from a teacher moved all 28 boxes from the complete other side of the school into the library. That was a lot. They are mega math books, huge and heavy. Glad they came and we'll get them some barcodes and out to teachers.

Boxing Day

 Yesterday I took off for appointments. Today I had some catching up to do! My sub did a great job and after I checked through some things, I was pretty happy with how she took care of everything. I guess I am replaceable! Did more work with Chromebooks today and decided I had enough to check out two to every teacher. Did some ordering, had both lunches in. Packed up boxes. I was happy that I got all the Language Network 6th grade books packed up! And all the teacher clean out books as well. I only have one cart with books on it that I still need to go through. And I got new books!! Three sets of Junior Library Guild and one set from Scholastic and a few from summer school program that some Leslie students came for. Did one tiny lamination before I left. A very nice day and students coming in tomorrow!

Classes and Math

Monday was a megathon of Language Arts classes coming in to get books. All day. I checked out so many books! Made me so happy! That was Ms. G's class. I got to help some students as well, and that always makes me happy when I get a chance to suggest a book and the student picks it up! We also got in a ton of books and I didn't even wait for my aide to check them in, I had to get the pile down myself! Only had one lunch in and got a delivery of math books, now to find out how many boxes each of our 6th grade math teachers need and sort through the boxes to find the Volume 1 ones. A very busy and great day!

Tuesday was so much quieter, except for lunches! I think we had all our passes in and then some kids came in from Ms. S's class to return and check out books. It was crazy! I finished up my Mandatory Training for the year and could not believe I didn't get 100% on two quizzes! I have always gotten 100%! Oh well, just shows I'm getting older! Delivered 4 boxes plus 6 books to Ms. R for the 6th grade math books and 12 boxes to Ms. C. Then I had to decide where to put the old ones from last year and where to put the new ones from this year for Volume 2. So I moved over the computer boxes and put the math books beside them which freed up room in the other aisle. I'm also working on packing up the old discarded books. Some from me, others from teachers when they had to clean out their rooms for moving this summer for the science remodel. I even got to read a bit today. All in all, another great day.

Lockdown Friday

 Checked out a ton of books today to Ms. G's class. She had them in for five periods. I went around after each class left and put out new books, pushed books on shelves back together or added a book end. Put away non-fiction books. We also had our lockdown drill today and it happened during Advisory. So I did have a class in and showed them how we do that in the library. Worked on my next book order. Checked out Chromebooks to students who had forgotten theirs at home so they could do their testing. Reading Darius the Great is Not Okay. But glad that it is Friday and I could go home. See you on Monday.

A Wednesday and a Thursday

 I came into work on Wednesday to see police cars, all over the place. On the street I came in on, another pulling into some new houses across the gully, and one that was sitting by Leslie's front door. I passed by him and noted that I had seen several cars and he asked if there was someone who could pull up student names for him and so I took the officer into the building and no one was in the office! So I told him we'd head down to the library where I could pull up names and there were our principal and assistant principal getting ready for our meeting and I turned the officer over to them. The reason they were out in such force turned out to possibly be false information. We did test our lockdown procedures and went into a Level 1 Lockdown with our new announcement system and it worked really well. I did some laminating after the meeting and worked with students all day on tackling Chromebook issues. Either solving it or turning in the one they had for a new one. Had my first lunch in and I must say, I was pretty impressed with the students and how they handled themselves. It went better than I expected. I worked on the old Makerspace cart, taking away the paint and glue and just putting out the stuff I didn't need to worry about getting into the new carpet, but I didn't really have it out, just had the games out. We had a fire drill and I was so busy closing all the fire doors in the library that I totally forgot my mask to go outside and to come back into the building, drats!! 

Thursday was a regular day and I put in my first finished book notice to Ms. Smith on Ancestor Approved. Very nice book! I also got her 20 picture books checked out for next Monday for her next unit. Checked out Chromebooks to many teachers today since we have so many. Found out that I need to make a tech ticket for the returned Chromebooks that have issues, that will take some doing! I have to break them up into groups of the same issue, write the ticket with how many and then Tech will pick them up and bring new ones. I took those that had issues and marked them all as 'out for repairs' just to keep our records straight of what is really available. Checked out books here and there today. Had a math class into the library because the internet wasn't working in their room for the iReady testing they were doing. Worked on more Makerspace things and since I won't let them paint, I found we had a ton of watercolor packs and decided to make take home bags of some instructions, a pack, some watercolor paper. We'll see how it goes! I could not print them in color :( so I'm working on that for my instructions. A not too bad day all together though I am ready for Friday and the promise of rain.

Quieter Day

 No classes in today so I was able to poke my head above the Chromebook waters and get my bearings a bit. I still had students coming in to get Chromebooks all throughout the day. We had a glitch in our district, and I heard even through the country that Google was having problems. I had four students come in saying that they signed in, then the screen just went back to signing in. Luckily I saw in our library chat that everyone was having that problem, so I had students go through with me and Tech had gotten things to where they could sign in again. Yeah Tech! I got Geography books up to our Social Studies teacher today - he was down and I asked him when he wanted them, and he said, 'oh, last Friday' so I was able to find a moment and get them out and checked out and up to him. Had Leadership students come and take some of the Chromebook boxes they had all come in for a project. I boxed up withdrawn books. Took a box of Chromebooks upstairs to our DLC kids. Then their teacher came down and we went through my AEM cart and got the rest their devices for the year. Had students who didn't bring their Chromebook today and wanted one for the day, but policy is that every teacher gets one extra for class, at the moment until we are all done with students, which we are close to, but not quite there yet. Took my aide's attendance on time today (yeah!). And finished up with just a hint of lamination and working with a teacher on grammar resources. Cleaned up my desk a bit. Did some emailing with our JLG rep on the new bid for this year. Made passes for students to come to the library during lunches starting tomorrow. I asked if only five could come. That would be perfect. But really we could 40. Le sigh. 40. I hope I make it through lunch time.