Interview for Library Assistant Position

So today I had a small interview for a library assistant position within the Seattle School District. I am going to lay my full thoughts out here... I was super excited to be asked to do this position. 1. I need to work and I will be waiting for my credential for a little while …

Making Shelf Markers for Craig’s Library

So this Sunday I decided it would be a great time to finish one of my gifts to Dearborn Park International. The sign in the white is what the shelf markers use to look like. I started cutting out all the blackboard to make the new shelf markers for the non-fiction section. As you can …

Review Meeting Shoreline Conference

Today I attended my second meeting with the Puget Sound Review of Children and Young Adult Literature group. I met up with Craig and I am happy to say that I will be joining them as a regular reviewer. I reviewed 10 books in the written review category and I will be presenting 3 oral …

Prepping to teach a technology lesson

Today was a pretty cool day! I gifted Craig and his class a pop-up green screen and 1100 Lego's to help build their STEM space. Another really awesome progress to the day was Craig went over my Lesson Plan for 4th grade using Minecraft and Explain Everything. We are going to have the students do …

Visiting a Tops a K-7 School.

I was able to spend 4 hours with Nick another Seattle Librarian today at his school. Tops is a K-7 school and I was able to be there when the middle school students were doing some technology lessons. They were working on some research and different ways to present. The tool that most wanted to …

A Library Mouse…FOR REAL!

So while today was just another day of shelving and such. I have an amazing fun story! We had a library mouse! Yep, a real one! While all the other librarians and tech people were running around.  I was calmly thinking hum I wonder if we can keep him in the cage with the turtle. …

Fernwood during parent conferences

Had another fun day at Fernwood. I am so lucky that Nicole has let me fill some of my hours here. While I don't dabble much with instruction I am doing mostly hardcore librarian work. Shelving, shelf reading, assisting the kids to find books (Unicorns is my #1 requested book) and checking out. I think …

Dearborn Park to Ballard Highschool

Today was a really great day for Craig and I. We planned out how I am going to instruct a technology class with the assignment I created in Minecraft/Explain Everything. After our usual day of library activities, we ended up going to Ballard High school, which is part of the Seattle School District. The Librarian …

Veteran’s Day at Dearborn

Today the schools celebrated Veteran's day with a school assembly. In Library we displayed book about all types of Veteran's and their stories. During tech time we had the kids do patriotic selfies and write Thank you Veterans. Before I got to the school Craig and some of the students had put together a song …

Thank you Fernwood Elementary

I was hit a couple of weeks ago with my FE in Edmonds needing to take a leave of absence in order for me to get all my hours in. I begged and pleaded and Nicole Randles said she would oversee me for the remainder of my hours outside of working with Craig. So here …