January 2011 Monthly Report

Program Highlights

The media center experienced an extremely busy month due to a snow storm that

hit all of North Georgia. We missed one week of school and many lessons were

combined or rescheduled.

The media center hosted a showcase of 2nd

grade ELT’s graphic novel unit.

Students shared their graphic novels, blogs, and the process they went through to

create them.

The media center hosted the 4th

grade Colonial American wax museum. Students

had research colonial Americans in class and in the media center to prepare.

The media center collaborated with Rita Foretich, art teacher, on poetry and

photography with all 5th

grade classes. Students took a photograph of themselves,

edited the photo, explored multiple kinds of poems, and wrote a poem to

accompany their pictures. Poetry will be typed and showcased in the media center

in February or March.

The PreK unit on weather and meteorologists wrapped up with the PreK students in

Mrs. Hocking’s class filming their weather reports in the BTV room. All students

were involved in either being the anchor, meteorologist, camera, producer, or cue

card holder.

5th

grade kicked off a research unit called Bigger, Better, Faster. The media center

created a pathfinder with resources for each topic that groups were focusing on.

Students began researching and will soon begin creating digital projects

Battle of the Books 5th

grade teams began practicing for the school competition and

grades 3 & 4 kicked off their Battle of the Books reading.

The Six Flags Read to Succeed program started. Students should read 6 hours

outside of school to earn a ticket to Six Flags.

Andy Plemmons, Media Specialist

Sharon Rockholt, Media Paraprofessional

Website:

http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/aplemmons

Blog: http://barrowmediacenter.wordpress.com

Barrow Media Center

Number of Media Center Patrons: 3,395

Check Outs: 2,403

New Materials: 23 new items

Facebook: 140 visits (note: some data was not emailed to me

this month from Facebook)

Blog Visits: 649

Media Center Website: 2,487 visits

Data Snapshots

Blog Posts:

Exemplary Open House

PreK Weather Forecasters

4th

Grade Wax Museum

Presenting Graphic Novels

What a Media Center Looks Like

Student Book Reviews

Penny Dreadful

Yes We Can: Using Donors Choose

Sharing Massive Content

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4th grade students

make lists of books to

read in the future

2nd

grade students showcase

their graphic novels

Collaborative Lessons

Mo Willems

author study

PreK-spurgeon

Persuasive

Writing

All 1st, 2

nd, 3

rd,

and 4th grade

Laurel Snyder

author study

All grades in

preparation for

her Feb 24 visit

Martin Luther

King

All K and 1st

Digital

Photography &

Poetry

Art-all 5th grade

classes (3 sessions

for each class)

Bigger, Better,

Faster: Our

Changing Nation

research project

All 5th grade in

multiple sessions

PreK Weather

Forecasters

PreK-Hocking

Informational

Writing

All K

Bears PreK-Spurgeon

Chinese New

Year

All K

Rocks All K

Powerpoint 4th grade ELT

Groundhog Day All K

Audio recording

letters

4th grade Slongo

(as part of

Michael Naranjo

unit)

.

PreK students record weather

forecasts that they wrote

4th

grade students wrote letters

to blind sculptor, Michael

Naranjo

January 2011 Monthly Report

Barrow Media Center

Parents enjoy reading graphic

novels with students

1st grade students work on

reading skills while 5th

graders

write scenarios

A 4th

grade class uses the media

center for a reading lesson while

almost 100 other students are using

the media center for a work

showcase

A 4th

grade class

uses laptops to

explore Power

Point

A Dad explores several

students’ graphic novels