Congratulations to our two newest presenters on the block – Liz Christensen from Ohaeawai School and Jenny Puckey from Kaitaia Primary School, and thanks to their schools for giving them the time to share their expertise and enthusiasm with others.
Karlene and Amy at morning tea time, with Colleen from Dargaville catching up with Lisa Salter on the right.
National Library session
The focus was on making the most of the school
library and making the most of limited time in the library, and an opportunity to think about the library in new and interesting ways. I shared the resource from Core Ed, based on David Thornburg's article, talking about learning spaces as campfires, watering holes, caves, mountain tops and sandpits - how do / could our libraries create those sorts of spaces and activities?
We also talked about the National Library Services to Schools website http://schools.natlib.govt.nz and spent a bit of time identifiying priorities for the rest of this term / next term for the library. I touched on ways we can extend our personal learning networks, strengthen collaborations in the school and be strategic about those limited hours in the library to make the most impact on student learning outcomes.
Liz (in black) talking to Jo at morning tea time. Kathryn and Delwyn in the background.
Here are some brief notes I took from Liz’s session :
- library wonderwall – place to ask
questions and create curiosity
Wonderopolis http://wonderopolis.org/ is a useful site for interesting questions for children - withdrawn picture book pages turned into bunting
- series bins with labels – laminated, stuck on with Velcro dots
- reading dogs in the library
- pop up tent
- language / signage around the library
- photos of children reading
- forest – bird song CD from National Library
- student library monitors – in pairs, day a week, photos, party
- hours in the library
- overdues / lost books – working them off
- parents helping with book covering
- rug
- buying books
- library lessons with the visiting classes
- displays
- reading posters
- children’s faces everywhere
- owls – library skills
- Carrot search
- Book talking – guidelines for children
- Story reading every visit
- Book care
- Pick a just right book guides
- Books about school activities
- Special books – pop-ups etc
- Plastic bags for book care
- Swap a book – Duffy
- Book display – children holding book cover
- Games and puzzles
- Dewey signs
- School inquiry model
- Big displays, eg space, rainbow fish, Maui, plant a seed – read
- Arthur’s Emporium – fabric "picnic table cloth" doesn't fray $2 a metre
- Holiday reading – promoting summer reading, sharing reading at the start of the new year – reading role models
Jenny, presenting, with "Wally" avidly listening (It was Kaikohe East book character dress up day!)
and here some brief notes from Jenny’s session :
Tour of
library – photos
- Quotes from children
- Soft toys
- Helpful guides for choosing books
- Guides for how books are shelved
- Book week activities
- Work room organisation - labelled bins for each stage of the process
New books –
processing, Z39.50, barcodes, spine labels, covering, dust jackets
Highly
recommend Book Protection Products
- Useful website, also print catalogue
- Very quick and reliable service
- Good range of products, labels etc
- AND they sponsor SLANZA – deserve our support
Quick way
to take off GST from price of book :
multiply the price by 20 and then divide by 23 – that will give you the price
less GST.
Covering – well worth it – cost of covering
a paper back fiction book is about 27 cents per book worth of Duraseal… plus
gutter tape, labels, and time, but still well worth it.
School stamps – inside front and back cover of
book – also puts on cataloguing page with date of purchase for handy reference,
and if picture books have “This book belongs to…” Jenny puts the school stamp
there too - otherwise children do!
Jenny also
described how she had has a lot of fun with children doing a version of Reading Bingo – based on the resource
from Random House but creating her own headings to make it easier for the
children. They write the name and title
of the book for each category on the back of the “bingo chart”.
Kind regards, Jeannie
Colleen and Lisa, Zoe and Leeanne, Ora, Joy and Waana
Colleen and Lisa, Zoe and Leeanne, Ora, Joy and Waana 
Wow, you covered so much at this PD session. Congratulations Liz, Jenny and Jeannie. Sounds like you certainly empowered those attending to take back to their own school library some very useful ideas and tips.
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