November 2010 Monthly Report Program Highlights Grady Thrasher and Elaine Rabon, author & illustrator of the Tim and Sally series visited students in PreK-3 rd grade 25 Guests visited Barrow for guest reader day and read to every classroom in the school The Media Center supported the 5 th Grade Veteran’s Day Luncheon with our space and resources 5 th grade Battle of the Books kicked off with an introduction to all 10 of this year’s books and checkouts and reading began Leader Librarians enrichment cluster purchased 108 new books for the media center with a Foundation for Excellence grant and book fair profits. Books were chosen by students by surveying the school, naming book categories, and meeting with library vendors. Multiple grades participated in informational writing and research units. Students learned about effective searching, evaluating websites, and using various search Andy Plemmons, Media Specialist Sharon Rockholt, Media Paraprofessional Website: http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/apl emmons Barrow Media Center Number of Media Center Patrons: 4005 Check Outs: 2,740 New Materials: 64 Facebook: 970 visits Blog Visits: 229 visits Media Center Website: 1,535 visits Data Snapshots Collaborative Research- Encyclopedi a Britannica online and Pebble Go All 1st Maps & Globes All K Book blogging & podcasting Saxon 2 nd grade spectrum Paraphrasin g All 5 th Thanksgivin g Now & long ago All K American Heroes John Henry All 1 st Light & Shadows All 1 st Weather Forecasting All PreK Search Engines & Effective Searching All 4 th Inquiry Learning 4 th Grade Spectrum Google Earth 3 rd Grade Spectrum Habitat Research All 3 rd Grade November 2010 Monthly Report Barrow Media Center