Posted by: eiela on: 28 May 2009
So I found this video on Joanne Jacob’s website. It’s a great explanation of the problems with merit pay.
In my area, teachers do get value added scores. So much depends on the group of kids you start with, how well you get them to do their work, the backup you get from parents and [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 20 May 2009
Ahh. . . summer vacation beckons. The students are wild, the teachers are frazzlesd, and your friendly school librarian is nagging, nagging, nagging. I spent the better part of my day calling the parents of the kids who still have 80ish books checked out of my library. That’s about 60 phone calls, people. Of [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 2 January 2009
So, I’ve managed one thing during my vacation. . other than family time. . . cleaned up the office. Oh, two things–I got rid of some old books (gasp).
I’m ready to go back to school.
Posted by: eiela on: 23 November 2008
Just got back from the Tennessee Association of School Librarian conference yesterday. Too pooped and sick to write much today, but hope to have more later. Lots of good ideas I want to take back to my teachers and students. Loved hearing Deborah Wiles and Will Richardson speak! Wanted to blog about it while [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 25 September 2008
The Day Leo Said “I Hate You!”
by Robie H. Harris • Illustrated by Molly Bang
September 2008 • Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers •
I’ve been reading this book to my kindergarten through second grade library classes this week, and it has been a definite hit. An applause-after-the-story, read-it-again-now hit. [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 11 September 2008
This week we’ve been reading Maybe a Bear Ate It! by Robie Harris with my little ones. (K & 1st). It is such a fun book, told just as much through the pictures as the minimal text. A little purple and green monster is reading HIS BOOK in bed. Then it [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 1 September 2008
Also Posted at The Picnic Basket.
This book is a definite winner. I read it to all the second graders at my school, and it makes a great read-aloud. When Judy Moody visited the art class and called it the “Naked Lady class,” she had them rolling with laughter. The story moves quickly, and it’s full [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 29 August 2008
I love Kindergartners sometimes.
ME: What’s your name?
K student: “Freddie the Rainbow.”
Turn to my assistant to see if she heard the same thing I did. She did. (She has the best faces!)
ME: Could you tell me that again?
Second try reveals that his last name does rhyme with Rainbow, but is not, in fact, rainbow!
Posted by: eiela on: 25 August 2008
I’ve been tagged for an interesting original meme by Where’s the Sun? (More numbers! ack! I just finished counting about a bajillion pennies for our Book Fair One for Books change drive!) Really, though, this is the first time Ive ever been tagged for a meme, so I’m excited.
Back To School Meme
Completed in [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 24 August 2008
Found this via the teachers.net chatboard. Wouldn’t this be a cool tool to talk about the presidential candidates with students? The presentation style really lends itself to a discussion of whether or not the president actually has the power to do what the candidates are promising to do. Which is one of my huge [...]
