January+2012

Happy New Year! 2012.....

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 * Happy New Year!!!! I wish for you both a new year fill with perfect health, happiness, wealth, and abundance! Cheers.....
 * Josie, this month is Black History Month. There are several pieces in the box for this celebration. Break down the display case and create this today please. The Bio section has great graphic novels for people to highlight. Completed 1/4
 * paper from mail room We have to find the cart or have other ways of bringing it up? I can do one at a time? Mr. Gregory has it for his overhead projector.
 * box to my car and bring back gallon of water from back of car for fish Completed 1/3
 * January birthday sign and change cut outs in basket Completed 1/3
 * What are the books in the bin close to me for??? JLG??? Completed 1/3
 * Kathleen, please refresh my memory of where you are with MLA project
 * Good morning, keep on moving through your lists.....thank you!
 * I'm working with Mrs. Fitch's 8th grade Room 213 class on //Plagiarism// Periods 1,3,5,7,8
 * Tomorrow I am teaching with Mrs. Crawford in Room 197 Periods 1,2,4,5,8 //Parenthetical Citation//
 * Teaching with Mrs. Crawford: Parenthetical Citations
 * Teaching with Mrs. Kopp: Website Evaluations
 * Teaching with Mrs. Kopp: Databases
 * Teaching with Mrs. Crawford: Work Cited
 * Fines/Overdues delivered to HR mailboxes with labels stating: "Please send kids up ASAP to take care of accounts" and "REPORT CARDS WILL BE BLOCKED"
 * Josie: "Collaboration", Review teachers accounts/materials and email them . Q readers.... Completed 1/17
 * Kathleen: WorkCited packet
 * Busy morning with kids coming in to take care of accounts
 * Mrs. Cayan will be bringing in her classes to take care of accounts in one bunch and to also take out new AR books
 * Kathleen, please make the Ebsco Host call today before Work Cited
 * Please chat with me about it. I'd like to help you complete it and put it to bed :P
 * Josie: Please take care of your "in box" before moving on the Q readers. Okay
 * Let me know where you are with the Q readers at this point I am finishing up the extra one's that were laying in the bin. Then I believe I am moving on to the S's... I can double check when I finish up the one's on the white cart.
 * Secure popcorn kernels on pole Completed 1/17
 * Lots going on in the recycling basket... Completed 1/17

1/17 Welcome Back! 1/18 1/19 1/23
 * I hope you enjoyed your long weekend. Josie, I hope you are well. We missed you Friday. You can see the list I created for you above. There are some posters in the "in box" that can also be hung up. The AR points poster can be hung up outside on the windows by the "How to take a test" poster. Completed 1/17
 * Hi Kathleen! As we discussed last week, you can begin to create the work cited document for the MRC.
 * I have a mtg @ 12:30 and someone is covering my lunch duty.
 * Mrs. Sofen's sub, Mary, will be calling to see if she can send down students to work on computers. She knows to send them with signed and dated pass.
 * Josie, please go through the headphone bins and check all mics and headphones to see if they are working. Use a label to note if one or the other is broken. See me before you begin. Completed 1/18
 * we're also missing the "L" in Lanka on the sandwich board outside Completed 1/18 thank you
 * Happy Thursday! I'm battling through a head cold and hoping it stays in my head. ....Kathleen, what are you doing today since your big MLA work cited task is complete???? I will be working weeding and spine label changes.
 * The BIO spine label changes have been completed in Destiny. Thanks Kathleen. The purple looks so much like black I didn't see your comments earlier. sorry.
 * Josie, please put Orland Bloom in the closet. Roll him up and throw away the frame please. Thank you for everything you've done this week, I've thrown a lot at you. Completed 1/19 ...No problem, I like to stay busy (: I know and I LOVE that
 * please prepare a new cartridge recycling box (big white one) in back closet folded up Completed 1/19 thank you. I didn't tell you this, but next time you'll need to tape the bottom of the box shut and keep the flaps open so we don't have to take out the cartridges to close up the box. I made laminated signs for the box so teachers know where to place their recyclables.
 * please check the "Student Information" pole periodically. I took care of it today and cleared a lot off of it. okay Thank you. The "e" fell off on new. Can you please look for it??? Completed 1/23
 * Welcome Back!
 * No lunches passes for any grade are to be given out for tomorrow. There will be a workshop in here all day tomorrow for Peer Leadership training.
 * All classes tomorrow will enter and exit through the back door. All teachers have been notified and no direct teaching should be taking place so not to disturb the workshop.
 * reminder that fines and overdues list needs to be to Vicky by Monday the 30th.
 * I'm responding to comments in orange, one of my favorite colors. Please make it a habit of reading them whenever you see orange.
 * Also please make it a habit of checking the wiki twice while you're here. I add periodically throughout the day. I don't want to tell one of you something throughout the day and forget to tell the other.
 * Amanda Pegher will be coming over from the HS to pick up her ipod touch which Debbie found under the 700 stacks on Friday. It is by the pencil sharpener.
 * Thanks for your help today.

-Jenn- Would you be able to order Demco labels for making spine labels? #14216190 or # 14217250. Thanks. Kathleen We have tons in the drawer. There is no information regarding size, so plya with a ruler to see what you can do and play around with the printer. This is something I'd really like to get into the habit of. For all books entered, we can simply press a button and the labels will print out. I can even do them for our entire collection; sections at a time.... -IT request has been submitted Thanks

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 * Up in the air right now with the workshop....not sure of the setting so I'm waiting for direction.
 * Keep plugging along and check back again at some point today. Looks like Part I will take place in the Modern Living Room and we'll wait until 10:55 to see where Part II will take place.
 * Tomorrow is "Wear a SMile Day" so wear yellow and your jeans. Jeans is a $5 fee for support Sparta Youth
 * HAPPY MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * Fines and Overdue list was given to guidance and parent portal will be blocked. Please keep a daily running list of kids who update their accounts so I can send it to guidance at the end of each day and they can unblock accounts.
 * What is the story with the clear labels? Did anyone pick them up this week? Did you take any $ Kathleen? I plan on picking them up this evening. I wasn't able to stop at Staples on Sat. Staples doesn't have them just so you know.
 * Josie, please fill jar with hearts. Count them for the February contest. Winner will be announced at the end of the day on the 14th. Completed 1/30 Magic number is 618
 * February theme: "We're falling in the love in the media center!" We'll be doing a I love Math, Math-a-Thon to help to raise $ for Sri Lanka and "I love this book" video.
 * Thanks for your help this week. I hope you both had a lovely weekend. Thank you. You too!
 * ONLY ONE NAME PER LUNCH PASS FOR ALL GRADES
 * Good Morning! I have lunch duty Tuesday/Thursday this week and I'm still working with Mrs. G's 6th grade class researching Ancient Greece. Tomorrow I will be with them in the classroom teaching Parenthetical Citations and Thursday showing them how to create a Prezi. we'll be up the second half of class for the kids to practice Prezi and continue their research. On Friday, I'll be visiting Mrs. DelCoro's classes taking Flip videos of kids sharing books they love. Next week, beginning on Tuesday the 7th, I'll begin the research process all over again with the Topaz Team and work with Mr. Oroz. His research will take me to the end of February.
 * Students are allowed to use electronics in the MRC for academic purposes but not at lunch time
 * Still, not video games and monitor youtube when possible. Passive YouTube watching is the equivalent to gaming....not efficient use of time.
 * Qcodes have been created for destiny and our homepage. Both are taped by the pass box @ circ 1 and by the computer in the stacks
 * AR test request slips are created and are on the circ desk near the nurse passes. The entire slip needs to be filled out in order for the test request to be submitted. These are used if there is no test created for a book. I can request one be made through renlearn.com
 * Josie, please take down the winter pics off the circ desk today and put up Valentine's Day. Completed 1/31
 * Josie, please cut out red hearts for our community builder: "what do you love about SMS?" Cut out LOTS Completed 1/31

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