Rocky Creek Media Matters
3rd 9 Weeks Report
Fan Girl Moments at #SCASL18
2017-2018 GOALS- UPDATES
Original Goals:
Learning Commons Goal: Each class will visit the RCES Makerspace at least once during the 2017-2018 school year. I will ask teachers what they liked about last year's makerspaces and what they are looking for in makerspaces for this year.
Personal Professional Goal: To continue to build relationships with students and teachers by attending grade level planning weekly and observing individual teachers. All observations will be written up using the Notice and Wonder protocol.
Both original goals have been amended as of January 11, 2018 as the goals were either met or close to being met. I do not have the exact wording of the updated goals, but here is what I had written down:
Updated Learning Commons Goal: Add Curriculum/Content Standards to Makerspaces and continue to add to what is available year round for students to do.
* I have attached AASL, SC-CCR, ISTE, and SC Early Learning Standards to each activity and differentiated by grade level. I shared the activities list with teachers on each grade level and had them decide if it was appropriate for their aged students.
Updated Personal Professional Goal: Still visit classroom to observe, but visit planning for about 5-10 minutes a month to ask questions about what they need from me.
* I have attempted to speak with different teachers on all grade levels during planning or after school to find out any books, resources, or other things from me. I am keeping track of my discussions in a Microsoft Word document.
No Tech Makerspaces- Lower grades
Ranger Scouts
Valentine's Day relaxation coloring
Celebrations
We have already surpassed last year's circulation numbers for the entire year. The 2016-2017 school year had 24,150 check outs. The 2017-2018 school year through March 26th is already at 24,831 checkouts.
We began Ranger Scouts, a program for 2-4 year old children and their caregivers, once a month in February. Our first two programs brought in around 15 children. Parents and children both seemed to enjoy themselves.Ranger Scouts met in February and March in the LC and was a great success. February was Children's Dental Awareness Month so we read about teeth, learned how to brush correctly, and made mouths out of marshmallows and construction paper. March is Music in the Schools month, so our story time was all about music. We read books, did finger play, and danced to the Alphabet song.
A kindergarten teacher asked me to include specific standards in my lessons after I asked them if there was anything they needed and I created a Nonfiction mini-unit to teach text features and it will finish in April. We will write poems based on the facts we learned during our explorations of Nonfiction. I am excited to see what the teachers think of the end product.
I have visited at least 2 classes a week to sit in and observe the classroom management, physical and emotional environment, and teaching of classroom teachers. I feel that I am learning a lot from the others in my school.
Read Across America guest readers
STEAM Night
Ranger Scouts- March
Happenings In the Learning Commons
*Our Read Across America celebration allowed us to host the Public Speaking class from Lexington High School, Board Member Mike Anderson, Lexington Police Sergeant Barrett, and many parents. They read to many classes on March 1st and 2nd.
*No Tech Makerspaces are on Tuesdays and Thursdays during March and April. We are focusing on a lot of fine motor skills with lacing, sewing, lego building, beading, and using spirographs.
*I read Love by Matt de la Pena to many Rocky Creek classes. We had amazing discussions about love and kindness and how we can find it in every situation.
*Mr. Bundrick brought 4th grade students in a class at a time to learn about stress relief techniques to use instead of getting upset.
* I will be collaboratively teaching with Ashleigh Berrian, Spanish Teacher, in the weeks after spring break. She will be reading Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See? in Spanish and I will read it in English. I will add in some of the Spanish words that Ashleigh teaches them to reenforce those words and then will relate it to the Nonfiction unit we have been working on by sharing a book about bears. We will then write a poem using the facts we learned.
Stress Relief
Guest Reader Mike Anderson
Love by Matt de la Pena
Circulation
Book Checkouts for the 3rd 9 Weeks- January 8th-March 23rd
Total Checkouts: 9,345
Fiction: 2,315
Nonfiction: 2,692
Biographies: 386
Professional: 253
Holds: 185
Other: 101
The circulations for the same time frame in 2017 is 7,335. That is 2,010 more circulations this year. I think part of this is the new books displays, the Million Word Challenge, and students feeling more relaxed in the LC environment.
For the school year we were at 24,831 as of the 27th which is almost 700 more checkouts than all of last school year.