I love the first week of library lessons!!  While it’s often a blur of activity, it’s always fun to see the kids walking into the library, some for the first time, some for the 100th time, but all of them having that look of excitement.  I know just how they feel!    …

    Over the last four years, I’ve developed a tradition of visiting the younger grades as the “Book Fairy” on the first day of school, and then visiting 3rd-5th as the “Library Goddess” on the second day of school.  I quickly pop into all the classrooms after the announcements, and just do a quick…

     Now that Open House Night is over, my thoughts quickly start thinking about the first week of school.  We normally don’t have library classes that first week, but I do go visit all the classrooms just to say hi and introduce myself.  I warn the teachers during inservice the week before that the…

     Going back to school was always an exciting time for me.  As a child, I loved the newness of my school supplies (Let’s be honest….I still do!).  As a teacher, I was ready to try out the new projects or systems that I had worked on that summer.  Now, as a librarian, I…

           Our district has spent a lot of training and inservice on different ways to assess student learning.  The areas that we focused on the most were Assessment FOR learning and Assessment OF Learning.  I felt comfortable doing this in the classroom, but it became challenging for me to find ways…