Posted by: eiela on: 23 February 2008
I know that collaborating with my teachers is the ideal situation to teach kids research skills, information literacy, etc. But I’m on a fixed schedule, library classes are planning time for my teachers, and I have SO much trouble getting them to work with me. I did get to work on a collaborative project with [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 18 February 2008
I just discovered LibraryElf. It will check your library card account for you and email or RSS reminders when things are due, overdue, when holds come in, etc. Check to see if it works with your library. You can put several cards on your account (so, if you have a card for all your kids, [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 18 February 2008
This happens at least once a day. Child will ask my Amazing Assistant a question. Amazing Assistant answers. Child will turn around to me and ask the SAME question again.
Me: Didn’t Amazing Assistant just tell you the answer to that question?
Child looks confused.
Why?
Posted by: eiela on: 14 February 2008
This week, one of my little ones wanted a particular book.
BF: What’s the book about?
Kid: It’s brown.
BF: The cover’s brown? What else was on the cover?
Kid: It had a dog on it. You know, the one ___ had.
BF’s wonderful library assistant, holding up a book she’s about to shelve: Is it this one?
Kid: YES!
I dare [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 11 February 2008
So I had this great idea for a 5th grade lesson. . .
We’ve been working on nonfiction books, leading up to research skills. Indexes, guide words. (I know, it sounds boring as snot, but we’ve been mostly playing games with it, the idea being that they’ll use it for Science project research later [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 8 February 2008
What is this blog going to be about? A lot of things. Sometimes it might just be a vent, a rant. Sometimes it might be a book review of a book I simply HAD to read to my students today. But, mostly I want it to be about teacher librarianship. What is that?
The teacher part: [...]
