May+2015



// Women’s History // || National School Library Month // Poetry/Earth Day // // Book Fair/Poetry Slam // || Memorial Day || Graduation Flag Day || (Camo paper?) || What will you miss about our 8th graders? || __** ACCELERATED READER FAQ: **__ TGIF- Have a lovely weekend! 5/4-** DO NOT WRITE FINES NAMES ON POST IT UNLESS THEIR NAME IS ON THE LIST. ** Thank you! Only 15 students with closed Portals. 5/5- I'm a GREAT-AUNT!! Layla Mary (Spelling??) 8.5 lbs. no pictures yet...my CA niece. 5/6- I'm a GREAT-AUNT!! Laihla May 8.5 lbs. no pictures yet...my CA niece. 5/7 I'm a GREAT-AUNT!! Laihla May 8.5 lbs. no pictures yet...my CA niece. 5/8 I'm a GREAT-AUNT!! Lailah Marie 8.5 lbs. ...my CA niece. 5/12- Happy Tuesday! I have vanilla bean scones to share with you from Mother's Day! 5/13 5/14 5/15 5/18- Happy Monday :) Look who graduated from Quinnipiac University!! 5/20 5/22- Enjoy the weekend! 5/26 5/27 5/28- ** CONGRATULATIONS TO DIANA! OUR NEW LIBRARY MEDIA SECRETARY!!!! ** Please remind students they only have until Wednesday with the books!
 * || || ** March ** || ** April ** || ** May ** || ** June ** ||
 * ** Theme ** ||  || Love of Reading/Teen Tech
 * ** Theme ** ||  || Love of Reading/Teen Tech
 * ** Community Builder ** ||  || Read and Release || “What do you love about your library?” || What do you love about your freedom?
 * ** Contest ** ||  || What is it? Old Tech- match game String with name? FLASHDRIVE || HR: Library Card contest || Red white and blue M&Ms/peppermints read and white || Beach bag ||
 * ** After School Activity ** ||  || Make door signs || Learn how to//Storyboard// that || Guest speakers -Veterans || Create a Go Animate for presentation ||
 * ** Display Inside ** ||  ||   ||   || War books ||   ||
 * ** Sandwich Board ** ||  || Before you…THINK || Black out Poetry/Haiku ||   ||   ||
 * ** Display Case ** ||  ||   || What's popping up on your reading list? ||   || Summer Reading Prize winners ||
 * ** Display Case ** ||  ||   || Graphic Books ||   || Summer Reading Prize winners ||
 * UN and PWs can be found on the posters on the pole and walls in the PC Lab. UN: First initial first four of last name JCAPU PW: first initial first two of last name JCA
 * Take as many tests as you want
 * Tests are not timed
 * Cannot go back and change an answer
 * Can only take a test on a certain book ONCE the entire time @ SMS
 * Don't start any tests 5 minutes before the end of a class
 * Points are kept in personal accounts
 * vouchers are awarded at the end of the MP and given to HR teacher
 * vouchers are used as cash in the community
 * lost vouchers are not replaced
 * PW: **laughing**
 * 5/1 - Happy May Day!**
 * Today is the last day for the Pizza Pandemonium survey
 * Process JLG books, they have already been cataloged
 * Fix spine labels
 * Great feedback from survey! Students are very happy with our services here, well done and thank you!
 * Pull The Warrior series off the shelves and change genre label to Adventure. You will need a cart. Also check any that may not have a red dot. (Done TS)
 * Process the Junior Library Guild Books and get them ready for the shelves (TS & GM)
 * Clean up Patron Messages in accounts. See me for the list please. - done ea & gm
 * Take poems off Tree and please put bag of poems on my desk.(Done TS)
 * ** DO NOT WRITE FINE NAMES ON POST IT UNLESS THEIR NAME IS ON THE LIST. ** Thank you! Only 15 students with closed Portals.
 * Great feedback from survey! Students are very happy with our services here, well done and thank you!
 * Cover JLG books
 * ** DO NOT WRITE FINE NAMES ON POST IT UNLESS THEIR NAME IS ON THE LIST. ** Thank you! Only 15 students with closed Portals.
 * Great feedback from survey! Students are very happy with our services here, well done and thank you!
 * Janet, new READ BOX books are here and the list in in the READ BOX folder.
 * Please cut book marks. -**done ea**
 * Have we completed the REFERENCE genre labels? **- not quite ea**
 * Sandwich Board- Memorial Day and Books to Movie Night advertise.
 * There are a few books that need to be covered in the bin. We have no more of the reddi covers in that size and will not have them until July. Please combined two covers to make it work so we can get the books on the shelves. **done LA**
 * There are green clouds on the circ desk for kids to write their favorite thing about the library. There are posters hanging on the back of each monitor and on the door. They just need to finish the sentence. They can or we can hang them on the windows outside. Please encourage them to do this.
 * Rose Coleman has gifted us a box of Whitman's Sampler to celebrate Mother's Day...Enjoy and thank you Rose!
 * I am teaching Period 2 today in Room 247- Holdsworth.
 * Library Advisory Board meetings are today also during lunch.
 * ** DO NOT WRITE FINE NAMES ON POST IT UNLESS THEIR NAME IS ON THE LIST. ** Thank you! Only 15 students with closed Portals.
 * Great feedback from survey! Students are very happy with our services here, well done and thank you!
 * Reference genre labels
 * Sandwich Board- Memorial Day and Books to Movie Night advertise. **-done ea**
 * There are green clouds on the circ desk for kids to write their favorite thing about the library. There are posters hanging on the back of each monitor and on the door. They just need to finish the sentence. They can or we can hang them on the windows outside. Please encourage them to do this.
 * ** DO NOT WRITE FINE NAMES ON POST IT UNLESS THEIR NAME IS ON THE LIST. ** Thank you! Only 15 students with closed Portals.
 * Great feedback from survey! Students are very happy with our services here, well done and thank you!
 * Reference genre labels **-done ea**
 * Sandwich Board- Memorial Day **-done ea**
 * Be sure to check out the Books to Movie Night sandwich board poster Emma made yesterday, it's fabulous! Thanks so much Emma! xo
 * Students can sign up to attend on the clip board on the circ counter
 * There are green clouds on the circ desk for kids to write their favorite thing about the library. There are posters hanging on the back of each monitor and on the door. They just need to finish the sentence. They can or we can hang them on the windows outside. Please encourage them to do this.
 * How are we doing with the Reference genre labels?
 * The sandwich board looks beautiful outside. Thank you Emma!
 * AR Vouchers were given out yesterday to students for the 3rd MP
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.
 * Next Tuesday, we will host Books to Movie night after school in the media center. Sign ups are on the circ desk. All students will take the last bus home.
 * How are we doing with the Reference genre labels?
 * The sandwich board looks beautiful outside. Thank you Emma!
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.
 * Next Tuesday, we will host Books to Movie night after school in the media center. Sign ups are on the circ desk. All students will take the last bus home.
 * Try to fit as many weeded books in the red cart on the Book Swap turnstile. Box the rest that don't fit. Empty boxes are in the speech room.
 * Reference labels are done! YaY and thank you very much!
 * The sandwich board looks beautiful outside. Thank you Emma!
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.
 * Next Tuesday, we will host Books to Movie night after school in the media center. Sign ups are on the circ desk. All students will take the last bus home.
 * Complete the Read Box posters for outside the caf
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.
 * Next Tuesday, we will host Books to Movie night after school in the media center. Sign ups are on the circ desk. All students will take the last bus home.
 * Did the READ BOX have the new books hung up? New red border needs to be put up on the display, some of it is ripped.
 * Please put genre lables on any literary graphic novels in the 741.5 section. You can use the book's counter part in the fiction section to decide which label to fix.
 * Emma, let's chat about what the QR codes look like and how you're organizing them.
 * [[image:Brady.jpg]]
 * **Magazines are not being checked out correctly. Please follow the directions below:**
 * **assign a barcode from the "Periodicals" binder**
 * **write that barcode # on the inside cover of the magazine**
 * **write the patron's last name, magazine title and edition next to or on the barcode # in the binder.**
 * **Use the EXPO marker in the binder to write.**
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.
 * Tomorrow, we will host Books to Movie night after school in the media center. Sign ups are on the circ desk. All students will take the last bus home.
 * Please take care of ILL books (Inter Library Loan) Find them on the shelves and send them to appropriate schools. Mark online. List is in "Books on Hold" folder MFG
 * Straighten shelves. Stand up hard covers on ends if there is space. **-done gm**
 * "Read" shelves. Are books in the correct order on the shelves? **-done ea & gm**
 * Emma, please make new signs for the printer table. All the signs are looking shotty and could use to be replaced. Please add one for the pencil sharpener as well. **-done ea**
 * 5/19**
 * **Magazines are not being checked out correctly. Please follow the directions below:**
 * **assign a barcode from the "Periodicals" binder**
 * **write that barcode # on the inside cover of the magazine**
 * **write the patron's last name, magazine title and edition next to or on the barcode # in the binder.**
 * **Use the EXPO marker in the binder to write.**
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.\
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.
 * Tonight we will host Books to Movie night after school in the media center. Sign ups are closed. All students will take the last bus home.
 * Emma- I have a new job for you which includes @http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/SL/5/. You can download it onto your computer.
 * Please create a sign for magazines to cut up like you did yesterday. Thank you
 * Magazines are not being checked out correctly. Please follow the directions below:**
 * **assign a barcode from the "Periodicals" binder**
 * **write that barcode # on the inside cover of the magazine**
 * **write the patron's last name, magazine title and edition next to or on the barcode # in the binder.**
 * **Use the EXPO marker in the binder to write.**
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.\
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.- Please let students know they have a little less than two weeks with the books. Please change it on the calendar icon beneath the date if is not showing up properly.In the future, fixing the "ceiling date" directions are in the binder.
 * Career books can be shelved. They're on the beige cart near the "Book Swap" turnstile. - DONE
 * Please remember to check folders in bin, including AR Wait List for tasks to complete. They may not ALL be listed here on the wiki.
 * Magazines are not being checked out correctly. Please follow the directions below:**
 * **assign a barcode from the "Periodicals" binder**
 * **write that barcode # on the inside cover of the magazine**
 * **write the patron's last name, magazine title and edition next to or on the barcode # in the binder.**
 * **Use the EXPO marker in the binder to write.**
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.\
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.- Please let students know they have a little less than two weeks with the books. Please change it on the calendar icon beneath the date if is not showing up properly.In the future, fixing the "ceiling date" directions are in the binder.
 * Please remember to check folders in bin, including AR Wait List for tasks to complete. They may not ALL be listed here on the wiki.
 * **Emma:**
 * Please make a sign (printer papers size 8 1/2 x 11) for each of our vendors. Use an image from the AR list (doesn't have to be the same on) and and type the vendor name on it: Dunkin Donuts, etc. Large letters. At the AR party, I have the students create thank you cards for all the vendors and then I send them out.
 * For the sandwich board, you can create a graduation one and one for all summer releases.I put a stack of the books I'd like to see on the display in your folder. The release dates are on them.
 * Magazines are not being checked out correctly. Please follow the directions below:**
 * **assign a barcode from the "Periodicals" binder**
 * **write that barcode # on the inside cover of the magazine**
 * **write the patron's last name, magazine title and edition next to or on the barcode # in the binder.**
 * **Use the EXPO marker in the binder to write.**
 * Diana, please cover one of the JLG books so we can use it as an example to show Melissa when she comes on Thursday. - done (drp)
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.\
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.- Please let students know they have a little less than two weeks with the books
 * **Emma:**
 * Please cut out letters for "Pets Caught Reading" for the door. **-done ea**
 * Please make a sign (printer papers size 8 1/2 x 11) for each of our vendors. Use an image from the AR list (doesn't have to be the same on) and and type the vendor name on it: Dunkin' Donuts, etc. Large letters. At the AR party, I have the students create thank you cards for all the vendors and then I send them out.
 * For the sandwich board, you can create a graduation one and one for all summer releases **-done** .I put a stack of the books I'd like to see on the display in your folder. The release dates are on them. Please work on these first so they can go up today if possible. At least one of them to cover the back of the sandwich board.
 * Magazines are not being checked out correctly. Please follow the directions below:**
 * **assign a barcode from the "Periodicals" binder**
 * **write that barcode # on the inside cover of the magazine**
 * **write the patron's last name, magazine title and edition next to or on the barcode # in the binder.**
 * **Use the EXPO marker in the binder to write.**
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.\
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.- Please let students know they have a little less than two weeks with the books
 * **Emma:**
 * Please make a sign (printer papers size 8 1/2 x 11) for each of our vendors. Use an image from the AR list (doesn't have to be the same on) and and type the vendor name on it: Dunkin' Donuts, etc. Large letters. At the AR party, I have the students create thank you cards for all the vendors and then I send them out. **-done ea**
 * For the sandwich board, you can create a graduation sign please.
 * Mrs. Smith will be the only volunteer in today, I'm writing curriculum over at the board office. Text or call me if you need me @ 973-650-7509
 * Magazines are not being checked out correctly. Please follow the directions below:**
 * **assign a barcode from the "Periodicals" binder**
 * **write that barcode # on the inside cover of the magazine**
 * **write the patron's last name, magazine title and edition next to or on the barcode # in the binder.**
 * **Use the EXPO marker in the binder to write.**
 * The last day for students to take AR tests (FOR POINTS) is Friday the 29th.\
 * All books are due back in the MRC by Wednesday, June 3rd.- Please let students know they have a little less than two weeks with the books
 * Process JLG books please.
 * **Emma:**
 * For the sandwich board, you can create a graduation sign please . I see what you've started! Thank you! - **done ea**
 * Please look at Q codes to make sure all authors have a Q code. Look at C's. Thank you! - **done ea**