Busy Tuesday

Tasked with " springing up" the library, finishing up the medieval book section ( just waiting on all the cool student artwork to go with it!) and faced out some new books around the library.

Spring It Up! 

Medieval Titles

I was involved with two classes who needed autobiographies at lower reading levels. Ms. Schwoerer did the first presentation and I got to do the second. She was emailed by the teacher about 5 days before the classes came in. She got some books from the IMC and pulled some from the LAMS collection. It was good to visit the IMC and then see how the LMTs use the resource and get the titles as needed. 

Graphic Novel, Picture Book and Easy Reader Autobiography Options.

Ms. Schwoerer found two great short videos from YouTube about the authors. We read aloud from "A Boy and a Jaguar" by Alan Rabinowitz. He is now Dr. Rabinowitz who overcame his stuttering to be an advocate for animals. Then we heard from Patricia Pollacco. She discussed her learning disability and how it led her to art and writing all while working on a very intricate form of Ukrainian egg art. 

These students are in reading resource so it was great to focus on two autobiographies that are not only in a lower reading level but are really well written  and read more like a story. Plus both of these people overcame learning and stuttering issues to become leaders in their respective fields. 

Lots of kids coming in and out choosing titles for other assignments too. It felt good to get so much done in such a short time today. Plus I had fun doing the presentation and I think that at least of few of the kids were excited about some of their autobiography options.