September Library Report

All classes have the opportunity to collaborate with me on any type of lessons. 24 collaborative lessons took place in the library during the month of September.

• ART - All K - 2nd grade classes participated in Dot Day activities with the library and art teacher.
• Cyber Safety -- 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes came in for Cyber Safety lessons co-taught by the ELA teacher and the librarian.
• 4th grade - 3 of the 4th grade classes came in for a lesson over identifying genres.

Kinder

• parts of a book
• author of a book

1st grade

• folk tales

2nd grade

• make inferences
  
• prediction

3rd grade

4th grade

• identifying types of genres

5th grade

This month we had CyberSafety awareness throughout the district. Over 30 students participated in the Cyber Safety poster contest. A fifth grader won the contest, and will move on to the district level.

• All classes visited the library for orientation during the first 2 weeks of school.
  
• 8 classes visited for Dot Day.
• 20 classes visited for Cyber Safety Lessons.

• 5,152 books were checked out from the library during the month of September.
• 87 holds were placed on library books during the month of September.
• 311 new books added to the Hillside collection.

Email: jharris@garlandisd.net
Website: hillsidelibrarian.blogspot.com
Location: 2014 Dairy Road, Garland, TX, United States
Phone: 9729262550
Twitter: @jharrisreads