School Library Report 2014-2015
New Hampton Elementary/Middle School
Free reading after checkout
After checkout, students settle in and read their books independently or with a partner.
Flashlight Partner Reads
Randomly throughout the year, students may receive a flashlight read day in library during 2nd grade. They love it!
Free Reading Day
Nice weather and shorter classes=Reading outside! Hopefully this happens more this summer!
Highlights
- Re-arranged the library, both big and small room, to make it flow better.
- Added a reading zone to the library.
- New seating in the reading zone was purchased and new furniture was donated by Mrs. Edgar.
- Took some desktop computers out and created a classroom space.
- Received a laptop cart from the high school.
- Genre-fied the Fiction Section and added new signage.
- Trained all 3rd and 4th grade students on Destiny Quest.
- Began teaching 3rd and 4th grade about the AEA Databases and projects using Google Docs.
- Hosted the Fall and Spring Book Fair in the library for the first time.
- Provided space for Awaneas, Odessy of the Mind,Girl Scouts, and site visit to meet.
- Started a "What in the world" board for students to highlight interesting facts that they found.
- Started an Idiom of the Week for students.
- Began putting together a school library website.
- Began posting activities in the library on Twitter.
- Weeded both the general fiction and young adult fiction areas.
- Had students fill out an end of the year survey, to help make improvements for next year.
- Two former teachers volunteered in our library all year and helped to keep the book cycling from checkout to shelf, clip/package Campbells Soup Labels along with Boxtops for Education, cleaning, and any other items that we may not be able to get to in the library.
- We had two eighth grade girls who came in everyday to help with random odds and ends around the library during their study hall time.
- Compared our circulation to others around our size and found our students checkout almost double or more than many other schools our size.
Collaboration
- Went into Mrs. Snyder's Room to introduce databases for a research project.
- Worked with Mrs. Edgar's 8th grade students on database usage for a research project.
- Discussed a collaboration partnership with Mrs. Pfaffle on blogs, books, and working with another school, but due to fixed schedule it did not work.
- Teachers showed a shelfie presentation video in class, since the teacher librarian is not always present when they visit.
Some Library Activities This Year
Tutorial for Students after Genre-fying
New Destiny Quest 2015
Celebrated International Dot Day with 1,992,615 other participants in 91 countries!
International Dot Day 2014
Researched and Presented on Veterans Day!
Lichty- Veterans Day
A book trailer created by a student
Bud Not Buddy Book Trailer
Do You Want to Read a Book Parody Create by Middle School Students in Library
Do you Want To Read A Book Parody
An Infograph Developed from Student Survey and Circulation Information
Goals
- Finish developing a website that is user-friendly and insightful for both staff and students.
- Continue to work on making the space more inviting to both students and staff.
- Continue to weed and build our collection.
- Work more with the students and staff in the classroom in order to connect the library curriculum with the Core.
- Begin to conduct interviews for library helpers for each year.
- Develop multiple book clubs.
- Find authors to invite to our school.
- Create more interesting and exciting book displays.
- Try to continue to implement QR Codes into the library with book trailers, recommendations, etc.
- Bring larger STEM projects into the library for students to see. This goes with the maker-space concept.
- Continue to research the idea of a maker-space and begin to implement it into our library.
- Look further into the idea of a Summer Books Program.
- Look into the idea of Peer Helpers/Tutors in the library. This would be in regards to technology, writing, and research.
- Look into Noodletools as something for all grade levels to help with research and organization.
- Continue to listen to all recommendations and see if we can make it work.
- Continue to do what we feel is best for our students and teachers to help them succeed.