4th Quarter Library Report

It's been another amazing year in our library with 16,682 check-outs, 492 items added, and 187 items removed - not to mention the magic that happens every day in our Library classes and book clubs! Click here to check out the 4th quarter library schedule at a glance!

Katie Sheehan invited Mary Klimack, Director at the North Greenbush Public Library, to come talk to all students, grades PreK-8, about the importance of reading over the summer. Mary promoted their 2019 Summer Reading Program: A Universe of Stories.

Third grader, Devin Oliver, chose to write about me for his biography project in ELA. What an honor!

I was selected to participate in the first ever regional Celebration of Teaching & Learning at the Desmond on May 8th. What an inspiring day to network with both fellow dedicated teaching professionals as well as the future generation of educators!

Sixth Grade student Janie Coonan volunteered daily in the Library to help get ready for inventory and the end-of-the-year. And a BIG thank you to my own daughter, Evie, an 8th grader at Hoosic Valley, for volunteering to come in to help scan the 16,000 materials after her final exams!

Sixth grade students created book talks and book marks for each other to help inspire their summer reading!

Students chose their own topics and decided to work independently or in groups to research contributions immigrants made to create our unique American culture. All work was housed in NoodleTools and presentations were shared via GoogleDocs or GoogleSlides.

Fourth graders wrapped up the year by exploring handy online reference tools and learning about genres through interactive activities!

Third grade loved listening for examples of humorous exaggerations and creative explanations in the final installment of our Folklore Unit: Tall Tales. They learned about larger-than-life American heroes including Paul Bunyan & Pecos Bil - and then they created their own Tall Tales to share with their classmates.

Look out Aesop! G-D's 2nd graders penned their own fantastic fables as the culminating product of our Fables Unit!

First grade practiced making and alphabetizing call numbers while learning about Caldecott authors and their books! They ended the year by creating their own Caldecott masterpieces to share with the class.

Kindergarten compared and contrasted children's author and illustrator, Eric Carle, with Lois Ehlert in our final unit. Here's a sample of an impressive story sequence they did for The Very Busy Spider!

Little Red explored the origins of the environmental movement and Earth Day as well as poetry to end the year! I am SO excited that all of my 1st grade LR friends will be coming to GD in the Fall ~ woo hoo!

A HUGE shout-out to the 10 fifth grade students who spent the entire year reading great books with me! It was an absolute pleasure to listen to these brilliant thinkers share their ideas and interpretations of a wide variety of literature - both fiction & nonfiction! I can say without reservation that working with these students was not only a privilege, but it was the highlight of my whole year!

The 4th quarter continued to be busy with teacher-librarian collaborations! Highlights included my work to help 4th grade with their annual Wax Museum, presenting an OverDrive eBook review to both sections of 7th grade ELA after acquiring a copy of their assigned book, Patina by Jason Reynolds, and working with 2nd grade on their fractured fairy tales unit. Please click here to view my complete collaboration log.

This summer I have been chosen to be the regional elementary representative at the Summer Institute in Syracuse, where select librarians from across NY will work with Barbara Stripling to unveil the 2019 IFC Reimagined. In the Fall, Kerri Burch, Maureen Squire, and I will provide PD based on what we learned to the rest of the school librarians in our area.

I will also be working on creating a new 8th grade research elective for Fall 2019. I am hoping to weave in elements from the revised IFC, Library of Congress, Opposing Viewpoints, and their core content area curriculum to develop a rigorous and enriching experience that will help prepare participants to excel wherever they opt to go for high school in 2020. I have already started working with ELA & SS teachers at area high schools to gather their input to ensure this course will be relevant and valuable.

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