Elementary Hours (MJDS)

Today's Elementary/Middle Hours: 8 hours
Total Elementary/Middle Hours: 23 hours
Total Hours: 27.5 hours

Today I spent the day at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School again. Once again, I really enjoyed my time here. I knew going into the day that I would get the chance to teach 2 classes. The first class at the beginning of the day was the senior kindergarten class. I knew that I would be reading them Pickles to Pittsburgh, the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Before they came in I set out their "shelf elves," which are laminated cards that serve 2 purposes - they allow students to stick something into the bookshelf when they pull out a book that they are not sure if they are going to check out, then put it back in the correct spot if they do not want it, and they also have the student barcodes on them so they can check out with it when they are ready. Then I picked out some books that have to do with traveling (like Pickles to Pittsburgh) in case they wanted to read something on a similar topic (they didn't but I didn't take offense). Then when they came in, I sat in the rocker and they sat on the carpet and I read the book to them. I first asked them what they remembered about the first book and they came back with a lot. It was fun reading a kids book and showing the pictures. They're so chatty and fidgetty and wanted to point out every little thing they noticed about the book. Like I told the librarians after, "It's kind of like playing with my nephews, it was fun for a few minutes but I wouldn't want to take them home with me just yet."

After the senior-k class I covered a few books. Not much else to tell here.

The last time I was here I weeded a bunch of books from the 300 section. This time, the LMS printed out the list that they ended up getting rid of from the ones that I picked out and I got to go through the list and create a new list on Titlewave that will eventually become the replacements for the books that I weeded. In the middle of this I took a break to observe the LMS read to the 3rd graders. I noticed that this was a different experience than reading to the senior-k class because she read a short novel (or chapter) book to them.

Next, I stamped book for a bit and put "Date Due" stickers in them.

Finally, the big show of the day...I got to give a presentation to the 4th graders on what type of sites we can trust for information on the internet. I gave a kid-friendly presentation about who we can trust in real life, then compared it to who/what we can trust online. When I asked them questions, they always had a bunch of great answers, which made this really fun and not stressful or awkward at all (for the most part). My big mistake was telling them that there are liars out there on the internet and then giving them some examples of that. My main example was the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. After I showed this fake website, that was all they could talk about. At first I thought that they actually understood what types of websites were good to get good information from, then I realized that all that they would remember would be the Tree Octopus website. Oh well! I tried!

Then I covered books again to wrap up the day.

Fun day!