The librarian was in charge of the technology committee and helped solve technology issues that the grade levels were experiencing. She also collaborated with the ITS and admin team on a roll out plan for the one-to-one chromebook distribution for 2nd-5th grade and helped to organize, label, and distribute the chromebooks and helped the teachers set them up for their class.
The librarian collaborated with teachers for the annual Winter Wonderland Read Around the School event. Upper-grade classes were paired with a lower-grade book buddy class in the library to learn about the event, plan out which books they wanted to listen to, and map out the most efficient route.
The librarian collaborated with her PLC group monthly on Smart goal setting, action plans, and lesson ideas. She also attended monthly librarian training, where she learned new strategies to use in the library and about new library digital resources to share with the teachers.
Students made storybook character pumpkins to donate to the Laurels Retirement Community. The librarian was in charge of this event, and the family specialist was the liaison between the campus and the Laurels. The residents always enjoy seeing the fantastic creations every year right before Halloween.
Kinder participated in a two-week-long unit focusing on Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Week. The librarian collaborated with the district reading specialist and the Kinder teachers to create stations for the students to rotate through. Each student was able to read multiple Dr. Seuss books, match rhyming words on green egg puzzle pieces, use positional words to place different Dr. Seuss characters in places, write a sentence about, and draw a picture of their favorite Dr. Seuss character.
They then got to make their drawing of their favorite character come alive by using Chatterpix where their character reads their sentence, and take their picture with a Dr. Seuss happy birthday sign to hang outside of their classroom at the end of the unit. Each student strengthened their knowledge in rhyming, positional words, writing a sentence, and using technology to enhance their writing.