I am spending today (my only day away from the new library since the doors were opened last week) so that I can figure out WHAT I’m going to teach, rather than obsessing about WHERE and HOW. It will be so amazing, but here are some realities that were different than I thought they would be! You will need to either grow another foot OR use the footstools we will be providing in order to access the fiction books on the top shelf. First, we tried to move the shelves down, but there was so much wasted space and we thought it would be more dangerous to trip over books than to stretch to reach them.
We will have painstakingly specific, nitpicky rules and practice regarding these stepstools!!
We will have access to a STEM area for group work, which will give you access not only to traditional maker tools like Keva Planks, Strawbees, and Lego, but also to old favorite robots like Ozobots and Finch, but also Dash & Dot! We will have brand new Chromebooks and a classroom set of iPads to expand your capacity to explore and create. We will also have books about Stop Gap animation. Why else have thousands of lego mini figures?!
I absolutely would not have had this library as ready as it is without the rock star library paras from our crosstown buddy schools, Brentwood, Colbert, Meadow Ridge, Mountainside and Prairie View. Your expertise was vital! Becky Swenson, Gaylene Johnson and Mary Lawson spent three days each!!!
See you next week. I can’t reveal any more. I have a lot more work to do….
~Mrs. Rossi
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