Week 10

This week I finally finished re-processing all of the books purchased with Title 3 funds!  I was so relieved to finally finish this project.  The students were very excited to have access to the new books this week too!

I spent most of this week doing book checkouts with classes.  I was able to recommend several books to students who were struggling to find something they were interested in.  We have many reluctant readers at our school and sometimes it is difficult to get them invested in anything besides a graphic novel.  One of our most popular graphic series' is The Babysitters Club.  On Friday, we were out of all of the graphic novels so I recommended one of the chapter books to a 5th grade student.  I promised her it was so much more detailed and entertaining than the graphic novel.  I hope she reads it and lets me know what she thought.

Our students use an online tool called Biblionasium to do book reviews for their peers and record their reading logs.  In a book review this week, one student said how people should always read books that were turned into movies because the book gives you more detail into the character's thoughts.  I love that!

This week we received twenty new Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment kits.  The classroom teachers use this system with their students to assess their reading level and their progress throughout the year.  It was my job to barcode each kit and enter it in the Destiny textbook administrator system.

On Thursday afternoon, I was able to attend the Georgia Children's Book Awards and Conference of Children's Literature which was held via Zoom.  This week's session was with author and illustrator Kris Di Giacomo.  She is the illustrator of one of my favorite picture books, When a Wolf is Hungry.  She told us that she started out as an English teacher in France and discovered French picture books.  She began creating her own English to French illustrations to teach students English and her career just kind of took off from there.  She has illustrated twenty picture books and authored a few of them as well.