December is upon us and the library continues to be grateful to be an integral piece to supporting instruction within the walls of Riverdale Elementary! Here are some highlights from the library in October and November!
* We have worked with third graders on their country research! Using World Book Kids (an online encyclopedia) and books, students found key pieces of information about their countries. They have become true experts as they were then responsible for teaching their classmates about their country in a PowerPoint presentation!
* We have read aloud some Colorado Childrens' Book Award nominated titles to preschoolers and kindergartners. They sure are enjoying the variety of interesting stories up for the awards this year!
* We have worked with fourth graders on Colorado animal research and creating their final products, which are called glogs! Glogs are online posters and you can see the links to the students' work through the "Student Work Gallery" on the Riverdale Library website. They have done a wonderful job using this really creative technology tool!
* Mr. Freeman's fifth graders and Mrs. Vollmar's fourth graders will be adding book reviews to our library's catalog, called Destiny, soon. They have read books for their book projects and are willing to help us pilot this cool new feature on our library catalog. Look for their reviews as a part of the book descriptions soon!
* Wordles (word clouds) were created with Mrs. Robinson's second graders in the tech lab using important social studies vocabulary words and great endings to personal narrative writing was explored with Ms. Zoeller's second graders in their classroom.
* In the month of October, the librarian met with an average of 4.7 classes per day, totaling 66 for the month. To illustrate that the job of a librarian has an impact on the technology use by students and staff, it is noteworthy to mention that 30% of these classes have taken place in the computer lab. :)
Students continue to visit us on a regular basis, both with their class and individually, to ensure that they always have interesting reading material for school and at home! Thanks to Mrs. Bonnie Watson, our wonderful media clerk, who handles the bulk of the circulation and manages student accounts! We couldn't accomplish our Power Library goals if it weren't for such a wonderful media clerk in the library! Thanks to Miss Bonnie we saw an average circulation on 211 per day books in the month of October with a total of 2956 items checked out in the month!
New books!
We will soon be receiving one of our first large orders of new books for the school year! With about 350 new books to choose from, we are sure to have many new books to match to many different readers at Riverdale. We display our new books on the "new book shelf" near the entrance to the library. Come check them out!
Battle of the Books
We have 22 participants who are beginning the extra-curricular book club referred to as B.O.B.! Ms. Dolan and Mrs. Lott are excited to begin reading the selected ten titles and getting to know these fifth grade readers in setting outside of the school day!
We have 22 participants who are beginning the extra-curricular book club referred to as B.O.B.! Ms. Dolan and Mrs. Lott are excited to begin reading the selected ten titles and getting to know these fifth grade readers in setting outside of the school day!
Visiting Author in January!
We are excited to announce that Justin Matott will be our visiting author on January 25, 2011! Our book fair profits will help pay for his visit which includes a school-wide assembly and smaller group workshops. If you are interested in ordering any of his books as holiday gifts before his visit, we have forms in the library and can help place the orders! See us if you are interested!
We wish you a happy and safe holiday season...with LOTS of reading over the winter break! Thanks for your time in reading our blog!
