April 2011 report

April 2011 Monthly Report

Program Highlights

Multiple collaborative poetry projects were finished. One 4th

grade class

participated in a Joyce Sidman collaborative project, and their work will be featured

before Sidman’s keynote speech at NCTE in the Fall.

The 1st annual media center poetry contest had 156 entries. Two top poems were

chosen in grades preK-1st , 2

nd-3

rd, and 4

th-5

th. Another 43 awards were given for

outstanding poetry in a variety of categories.

The UGA Athletic Association donated 12 poetry books to our collection and came

to work with students in various grades on writing poetry for Poem In Your Pocket

Day.

3rd

and 4th

grade held their Battle of the Books competition in the media center.

Our 5th

grade Battle of the Books team won 1st place at the district competition

against 13 other elementary schools. This is the 3rd

year in a row that our team has

placed 1st.

Poem In Your Pocket Day was held on April 15th

. Every class came to the media

center to read original and favorite poetry into our open mic. For the first time, the

event was broadcast live over the internet using Adobe Connect. We had parents,

family members, media specialists, and other educators who joined us online and

gave students feedback about their poetry. An additional reading session was held

on April 18th

to accommodate all classes in the school.

Our media center blog http://barrowmediacenter.com exceeded 10,000 visits since

its creation in 2008.

The 4th

grade began their annual author study of multiple authors that they will

present to the 3rd

grade to inspire summer reading.

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: 3,475

Check Outs: 2,158

New Materials: 64 titles

Facebook visits: 233 visits and 197 “likes”

Blog Visits: 1,449

Media Center Website visits: 1,408

Data Snapshots

Barrow Blog Posts:

March Monthly Report

Autobiographical Poetry: 5th

Grade

Book Spine Poetry 2011

Joyce Sidman Poetry Study

PreK Poets in Action

UGA Poetry Support

Poem In Your Pocket Day: Live

Battle of the Books 2011 District

Champions

2011 Poetry Contest Winners

Poem in Your Pocket Day 2011

More Poem In Your Pocket Day 2011

First Grade Botanists

5th

Grade Poetry Contest Winners

GLMA Blog Posts:

Happy Poetry Month 2011

Poem In Your Pocket Day Live

Student Poetry Webcasts

Some of the many winners in our

poetry contest!

Collaborative Lessons

Photo Story

Poetry

1st grade Brewer

Shape Poetry K-Li, Boyle,

Carney

Shape & List

Poetry

PreK-Spurgeon

Joyce Sidman

Photo Story

Project

4th-Selleck

Book Spine

Poetry

2nd

-Brink, Yawn,

Sitler

4th-Freeman

Invention

Glogsters

2nd

-Spectrum

List Poetry K-Em

1st-Watson, Hart,

Stuckey

Community

Helpers

1st-Wyatt

Book Making K-all classes

collaborative

project with the

art teacher

Animal Poetry K-Li & Em

Author Study 4th grade-all

classes

Response to

Literature

K-Em & Li

1st-Hart, Stuckey

2nd

-Brink

Butterflies 1st-Spectrum

The media center

also supported

CRCT and

benchmark testing

for 2 weeks

.

Poem In Your Pocket Live Broadcast

Students loved getting involved with

the computer.

April 2011 Monthly Report

Barrow Media Center

Poetry Projects in

and out of the

library!