Lunch Bunch Reading Club

A big part of our library programming this year has been Lunch Bunch Reading Club. Basically, I plan out a schedule for discussing different types of books, and interested kids pick up a pass to attend the Lunch Bunch meeting...

...Kid reads book in that month's genre
...Kid picks up Lunch Bunch pass from the library
...Kid brings lunch to the media center
...Kid discusses his/her book with the group

So easy, so effective!

Here's the schedule for this year...

2018-19 Media Center Planning File

I shared this file with lots of folks via social media, but have not taken the time to updated my blog with this information.

Nevertheless... here's my plan for the 2018-19 school year.

PGM Media Center Events for the 2018-19 School Year

Media Center Planning -- Google Calendar

August

• Summer Reading Ends August 10
• Summer Reading breakfast for students meeting 1000 minute goal - August 17
• Wonder schoolwide read-aloud
• Friendship Week -- August 19 -- make & take friendship bracelets
• Kindness Challenge Bookmark
• Chrome Crew - one student per homeroom to serve as media rep, be trained to help new students access online resources, take pictures, plan library programming
• Student library orientation and kick off of reading challenge
• Yellow Sheet 2018
• Introduce Lunch Bunch Reading Club -- setup Google Hangout for each meeting to allow for participation with LMS and HMS as well
• MakerSpace opens when library orientation is complete

September

• National Honey Month -- Spotlight PGM Beekeeping Club
• Book Speed Dating -- during September, when classes come in to checkout books, I’ll have a selection of books on tables for students to speed date.
• Teacher Tech Training -- Open Ed Resources
• National Read a Book Day -- September 6
• Library/Online Resources for Parents Class
• International Dot Day - September 15 - Make your mark on the world with artwork and poetry to display in the library
• Constitution Week September 17-23 -- memorize the Preamble to the Constitution contest
• CPIE Social Media Class -- September 28 to coincide with Good Neighbor Day
• Shelfies -- students take pictures of themselves and the book they’re reading, post to social media, tag PGM OR share via Google Drive; random pics selected for prizes (Shelfie-sticks)
• Banned Books Week - Sep. 23-30
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: historical fiction -- September 26

October

• World Card Making Day (to celebrate during October) -- have scrapbooking supplies out for students (at PGM and around LCS) to create cards that I will deliver
• Teen Read Week: Oct 7-13 -- Read for the Fun of It!
• MakerFest
• Book-to-Movie Event -- afterschool screening of (TBA) with popcorn and drinks
• Grab & Go Mystery book -- mystery, suspense, and other fall-themed books will be bagged up for students to choose randomly
• Lexile Training for Parents
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: graphic novels -- October 31
• Students “Caught Reading” to win book fair gift certificates. Teachers snap pics of students with books, share, and tag PGM on social media to be entered into the prize drawings.
  

November

• Book Fair November 5-12
• Origami Day -- have origami books on display, how-to videos streaming, and papers out for students to try their hand at folding -- November 14
• I Mustache You to Checkout These Books -- Mustache PhotoBooth
• Game & Puzzle Week - Nov. 16-20 (though really celebrated during Thanksgiving week) - will have iPads, board games, card games, and computers setup for gaming/coding
• I Am Thankful For… leaf display at library entrance
• Announce PGM Film Festival - November 1
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: books in a series -- November 28

December

• National Cookie Day December 4 - students who visit and checkout books get a cookie
• Merry MakerSpace
• Hour of Code -- Dec. 3-9
• PGM Film Festival -- book trailer voting
• Book Quote Ornaments (11/30 - 12/4) - have cutouts and calligraphy pens out for students to write their favorite book quote on an ornament to hang on the media center Christmas tree
• Read holiday stories to PGE students
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: any -- December 12
• Reading Challenge Ice Cream Sundae party

January

• Parent Google Class
• Remind students About Reading Contest
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: nonfiction -- January 30

February

• Digital Learning Day -- February 28 -- coding, robotics, etc...Maker Day in the Library
• Blind Date with a Book
• World Read Aloud Day - February 1 - collaborate with other LCS and schools around Georgia to continuously read aloud
• Begin collecting titles for March Madness and setup brackets
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: dystopian -- February 27

March

• March Madness of Books
• Teen Tech Week - app board for students to share their favorite apps, QR code scavenger hunt in the library
• Read Across America Day/Dr. Seuss’ Birthday - March 2
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: sports books -- March 27

April

• National Library Week - April 7-13
• Academic Olympics
• National Poetry Month
• Poetry Cafe -- setup in Reading Room for classes to participate in poetry readings
• Poem in Your Pocket Day - April 26
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: poetry books -- April 24

May

• Wrap Up Year Long Reading Challenge - Lunch in the Library
• Book Exchange Party - bring a gift wrapped book to participate
• Lunch Bunch Reading Club: Kick off Summer Reading Challenge -- May 22

Winter Break Reading Challenge

I did a Booktoberfest Reading Challenge for October where students logged their time spent reading through Biblionasium, but this time I wanted to something a little more crafty... I guess the holidays got me feeling all Pinteresty...

Here's the challenge I created. We'll kick off the Winter Break Reading Challenge the day we leave for Christmas and will wrap it up on January 10 -- that's when all challenges are due to the library. Overall, the students are expected to read a total of 300 minutes over the break -- 30 minutes for 10 days -- but there are smaller challenges within. For instance, one 30 minute segment might be for reading in your pajamas or 30 minutes spent reading to a sibling...

Here's are the image files, and I will link the editable Google Drawings below. Feel free to use, edit, share, remix -- I'm all about some Open Educational Resources!!

Here are the editable Google Drawing files:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1X2Glc3GwP2-l1FGtWBLGmcbxiQarRaFzWy7GORlrV_A/copy

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1k_E9_v0JqXOxABrDoO6Au_LdtzUIbUlLmZunVMIia_I/copy

Summer Reading 2017

Here's this year's Summer Reading Challenge...

Using Smore to get the word out easily via email and social media. Here's the online flyer:


Using Google Forms for kids to sign up so I can create their Biblionasium account.  Here's the Google Form:

Fail to Plan...Plan to Fail

Doing some research on the value (as we all know it) of collaborative planning between classroom teachers and library media specialists. I wanted to create a common planning document that I would print out into poster size, bring to our weekly professional learning, and have each academic area teachers, CTAE, fine arts, and PE add their plans for the year. This will serve TWO functions --

1.  If I know what everyone is teaching and when, I can better meet their informational needs; and
2.  Maybe someone might look at the planning document and realize it would be better to teach curriculum standard Q while someone else is teaching curriculum standard N.  Always be intentional!

I created the document as a calendar of sorts because I also wanted to include national celebrations and holidays to be helpful in planning.  Here's the document I came up with. Feel free to use it. I created it in Canva -- super awesome (FREE) graphic design website -- and here's the link to the file.

Here's the embedded copy of the file:

August Planning Sheet by Heather Morin

Ok, well....

Well poo. I WANTED to do March Madness via Kahoot! However....it appears that Kahoot doesn't have all the snazzy features I thought it did.... Anyway.... I created a ballot via Google Forms...Here's the link: https://goo.gl/forms/2OYy4Jc5WJBJJNfy1

March Madness for Books -- Field of 16

Getting a late start, but we are kicking off our March Madness for Books with voting for the Field of 16.  Rather than do voting through a Google Form, I thought I might get better participation with a Kahoot! that will be shared to teachers via email and through the PGM News.

Here's the link to my Kahoot:
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/71a2dfff-16ef-43cc-899f-ef08a3ba775b

This year, our Field of 16 was compiled by student suggestions through a Google Form. Our 16 include:

1. The Crossover - Alexander
2. Booked - Alexander
3. Stargirl - Spinelli
4. Wonder - Palacio
5. Black Butler (series) - Toboso
6. Love, Stargirl - Spinelli
7. Old School (Wimpy Kid) - Kinney
8. City of Glass - Clare
9. Prisoner B-3087 - Gratz
10. Bone (series) - Smith
11. Series of Unfortunate Events - Snicket
12. Fish in a Tree - Hunt
13. A Dog Named Slugger - Brill
14. Paper Towns - Green
15. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library - Grabenstein
16. Lions of Little Rock - Levine