The librarian collaborated with 3rd grade teachers to reinforce learning of Freytag’s Pyramid. Students listened to a story and were given manipulatives that they had to plot on student created plot mountains. Students took plot mountains back to class and used them to plot other stories they were reading. Students then came back and coded Ozobots to move along their created plot mountains
The librarian was part of the Literacy Night Committee. Literacy night involves having students and their parents come to the campus in the evening to engage in literacy activities and the opportunity to come to the school book fair. The committee is in charge of creating the activities, decorating the school and creating promotional flyers and social media posts.
Working with the Instructional Technology Specialist, we kicked off the “Connected Classroom” district initiative in which every student in grades 2-5 received a chromebook and chromebook “boot camp” lesson on best practices.
The librarian collaborated with 4th/5th grade teachers to get students excited about figurative language in poetry. After learning about predators and prey in class, students came to the library ready to create similes and metaphors about their chosen predators and prey. The librarian showed the students how to create a comic strip in Canva to make their figurative language come to life.
The librarian created a Who Would Win research project based on the popular Who Would Win series. Students picked an animal, bird, mammal or insect to research in class after learning how to take notes in the library. The teacher and I wanted to give the students the opportunity to practice typing up their writing on the computer to help them with the upcoming new STAAR, so after writing a rough draft that included three reasons why their animal would beat any other animal in the classroom, the
students typed up their essay on the computer. Students were engaged in the research process since they were able to pick their topic, and they were excited about battling each other at the end. Each day two students read their argumentative essay to the class, then the class picked who would win. Everyday, two more students battled until everyone got a chance to present.