This
past week was busy with all the activities I mentioned in last week's
blog. The greatest surprise of the week was during Miss Trefonas's
class visit. As I was showing her students a number of Chinese and
Chinese American fiction books to fit in with her China project, one
girl jumped up excitedly at Millicent Min-Girl Genius by Laurence
Yep. It turns out that she had read that book and its companion,
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time and loved them. That certainly got all
the other students and Miss Trefonas excited about the books, too.
Looking
to next week, the week before Spring Break, things are less hectic.
IMC computers are reserved for 8th grade Science on Tuesday and for
the regular 6th grade Language Arts classes on Wednesday and
Thursday. Reference Tables are reserved for 6th grade Music on Monday
to finish up their Composer Project. And on Friday Mrs. Boyer's 7th
grade Language Arts classes are coming for a book talk and book
checkout. Since Mrs Boyer is assigning a free choice fiction book, I
will be highlighting new additions to the IMC collection in my book
talk.
The
highlight of the week for the entire district IMC staff was our
presentation to the School Board Tuesday night. Using a PowerPoint
slide show we showed the Board some of the wonderful things we have
been able to do for and with the students of Center Cass District now
that the libraries are fully staffed. It was a Thank You to the Board
members for approving the increased staffing last school year. I am
very proud of my team both in PowerPoint show that we created and in
the work they have done this year.
