Book Fair Open

Yes today we officially opened the book fair and did a good amount for the first day. I may already have to order in some books, which is fine. We had attendance surveys in the library for the first three periods of the day today, so that didn't effect me too much. I got the notice that the grant money I asked for to get some more diverse books was awarded! Along with many others, but glad to know I'm going to get more books! Had to put on my calendar reminders of all the meetings going on so I don't forget to put out the carts!! Did that today. Was very busy with book fair stuffs, and collecting money and sending yummy books home with students. Even had some parents in after school to buy things for their children. A good busy day!

Almost Officially Open

Our Book Fair that is! We did a 'soft' opening today and raked in about $30, but we are all open tomorrow. Man, I just remembered I forgot to set up the computer cart for the Portland State class tonight. I have been so bad. And of course, the library is totally set up for the book fair and they will be in the midst of all that! But we did get all the books out for the fair today, so that is all set up and ready to go. Got up my fairy tale type of books cover images printed up for my Beauty and the Beast ALA poster. Love it! It was pretty quiet today, so we had plenty of time to work on getting that ready. Did some laminating today as well. Put out the Book Fair signs. In the rain. At least it was a soft rain and no wind!

Early Arrival

Our book fair arrived today and it's a bit early, well, maybe not! We are not on until Wednesday, but I may open tomorrow! Got all the boxes down from the top of the carts. Had to (of course!!) open up all the carts to see the books!! Had two classes in today to do book talks - and I found the Scholastic Book Fair trailer so I ran that instead! They are all so quiet when they watch the trailers! Had two math classes Kercheski style (my aides did that). We moved tables around for the book fair, though I may still change them a bit. Sent out three packs of books to other schools. Had my aides go through all the boxes and put in inventory sheets on what books were in which boxes for when I have to load them up and send them back. Last time there was a note on the carts saying to be sure you send the carts back with the stuff that was loaded on them! I was like, ah, oh. I set up the back a bit today with all the little trinkety stuff. Had a fire drill today and I had about 10 extra kids in the library. We used to have slips to write names, so I ended up pulling out a Emergency procedure sheet to write down names for Mr. M. When we got back in I was sure to put some notebook paper in the sheet protected items we have to carry out with us. A bit rainy, but not too bad. Looking forward to our last book fair for this school year! Took in my other quilts I have here for my quilt book display. One of the teachers loved my books and took one home then asked today if I wanted it back! I told her no, she could just check it out. She really likes it and and is thinking of buying it! Picked up change from the bank on the way home and some lock-ties for hanging the sign up outside on the fence. Time for book fair!

Half Day

Today for LMA's was a Professional Developement half day. Since the other part of the day was grading, and we really don't grade, that made it nice on a bright sunny warmer day! Went into Leslie and picked up my Chromebook to take, did a few little things like making sure all the computers were off for the weekend, redid a couple of call numbers on books, then headed up to the northeast part of town. Had a very interesting discussion for part of the meeting on how should a vision for library media work when we really no longer have Librarians (except at the High School level). Then a fabulous presentation by World Book Encyclopedia Online! He was fabulous! There are so many great ways to use their site and I really need to get him into Leslie for our teachers. Then we were off for the rest of the day! Lucky for me, my hubby is off too.

Granddaughter's Quilt Day

I was super excited to get my granddaughter's quilt back from the teacher who does long arm quilting and so I took it into work today on display with some quilting books for the students to see. I loved having it in there and showing it off to people all day! We had two classes in to check in/out books. Had the girls finish pulling our 'Least Checked Out' books. Got in my first Junior Library Guild selections! So excited! I went on their website and tried to log in and finally realized that I was using a password from another site. (Insert rolling eyed smiley here...) Got all books put away today! Tomorrow is a half day for me with 3 hours of PD (professional developement) so it will be a quick into school. Make sure things are turned off for the weekend. Pick up a Chromebook for my PD then off I go to PD then I'll be done! 

Going South

Or going to South High School next year! Today the library hosted all the 8th graders for a presentation by the South HS counselors, so we were pretty quiet today in the library. We did have a few kids come in, but for the most part it was dark (2 sets of our 3 lights off for the PowerPoint presentation) and it was just dark out today. I made extra stuffs for our Scholastic posters and got those all hung today. They only represented one book each, so I put in the dates and the other two lines I made book cover images and short blurbs about some of the books I had gotten in the preview package, then glued those all onto the posters. I think they turned out pretty cool! The Book Fair is just creeping up on me! It comes on Monday! Did three 'Kercheski' method math classes this afternoon. Another awesome day in the library!

Weeding

Had another snow day yesterday, so here we are at Tuesday already! I had my aides start to weed out the old books. I printed up a Least Circulated Items sheet, and gave that to the students telling them to pull any book that hadn't been checked out since 2011. They seemed to enjoy it and I'll still go through the carts once they're done and go through all of the books myself. Finished up checking out math books the 'Kercheski' method. My second period aides got it started, so I ended up checking up on them and then finishing their classes and doing the last class myself. I cleared off a cart that had all the VHS tapes on it and put them in boxes to start surplusing. Gave two book talks today as well! That was fun! Got my final budget notice, and I had $30.33 left in it for the year, so I quick did an order through our Central Stores for $30.25. Got my budget down to just 8 cents left! That is awesome! 

Workbooks Done

I got all my Dr. Seuss books off the big tables and put them up on the table by the door. Good to see the great group I have! Had my two health teachers come in and take the HRM resources so they could look at them. Finished up the pile of Realidades 2 workbooks I've had on my desk I think from forever! They were the last bit of workbooks from the beginning of the year and I was ready to finish covering them and then barcodes went on and the ends numbered. That was a great relief to get those all done!! I had three piles of them and that really cleaned off my desk! Took my watercolor of the Camino in to hang in my office today. Love the way it looks. Makes me feel very peaceful. Other than getting the last of that big project done, at the end of the day I had about 20 students in the library when we had a Lockdown #1 called. That means we just keep the students in class (or in my case, the library), cover the windows and just kind of keep school going. I had to go around and check off from my list who was in and who wasn't, then email the names of all the students in to the office in case anyone was looking for them. We were all kept in the school until about half an hour after school was over. So I had enough time to shut down computers, close the blinds on the outside windows, lock all the doors and leave! See ya Monday!

Remembering Dr. Seuss

 Today of course was the birthday of the amazing Dr. Seuss! I had my tables all full of our Dr. Seuss books and during the passing times, I wore the hat and read from Cat in the Hat, and Oh, the Places You'll Go and finally The Sneetches. I got some happy smiles, and once I had a whole group of kids stop and sit around me in the hallway (though I think it was just to not go to class...!). A great day! We had three classes in to check in/out books today. And our DLC class came in second period to be in the library! I so missed having them come in like they did last year every week. I covered the new Scholastic Book Fair preview books today and enjoyed the day immensely! Sent off for some books. Sent some books. It was a happy, sappy, Seussian kind of day!

More VHS

Did more titles and got a list of about half of them sent out. I had several teachers come down and look at the titles we had. One sent a list of the ones she wanted me to keep! I told her that I would as long as we made a deal that I could toss them if she hadn't used them for five years! Ha! Sent out a notice to remind the staff that tomorrow is Read Across America day. I'll be putting out all our Dr. Seuss books in the morning all out on the tables. I love to do that and encourage students to read him all day! Made an announcement for tomorrow as well. Had to do a book talk for a class today. Otherwise it was pretty quiet. Just me and my old VHS tapes!