Heroes take Flight

August 2010 Monthly Report

Program Highlights All classes attended orientations which involved book care, use of Destiny, hero

theme, star reviews

Our star review program kicked off and multiple students have shared books on

BTV, one student audio-recorded her review, and multiple students filled out star

review sheets to display

Our media center was named Exemplary Elementary Library Media Program for

2010 and Mr. Plemmons, Dr. Sabatini, and Mr. MacMillan attended an awards

ceremony at the state Department of Education in Atlanta.

Mr. Plemmons was named a four star employee for the Clarke County School

District, and the media program was recognized at the August 12th board of

education meeting.

Our media center earned a $1,000 grant from the Foundation for Excellence for a

project called “Leader Librarians”.

We held a webpage workshop for teachers to update their classroom webpages.

We held a teacher preview of the 328 new books arriving in the media center this

month.

Andy Plemmons, Media SpecialistSharon Rockholt, Media Paraprofessional

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

Blog: http://barrowmediacenter.wordpress.com

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Number of Media Center Patrons: 1,254 (approximate. We

use a tally system and some students forget to mark a tally on

our sheet when they visit)

Check Outs: 2,561

New Materials: Using state funds-12 USB Logitech

microphones, 328 books. Our book builder program added

an additional 14 books through dontations.

Facebook: 166 fans with 1,505 visits

Blog Visits: 407

Media Center Website: 1,203 total visits & 281 homepage

visits

Twitter: This was just started in July. 14 tweets with 3

followers.

Data Snapshots

Collaborative Lessons

Orientations All classes Prek-

5

Just Right Books All 1st and 3rd

ABC Books K-Ms. Li

Questions &

Predictions

All 2nd

Making

Connections

All 2nd

Picture Walks Hocking-PreK

Realistic Fiction Cantrell-3rd

Narrative

Elements

2nd grade-Yawn

1st grade-

Watson, Brewer,

Stuckey

Note: 2 weeks of instruction were

partially blocked due to Scantron testing.

Mr. Plemmons offered some instruction

in classrooms, while still helping

administer the Scantron test.

August 2010 Monthly Report

Teachers Preview Our 382 New Books

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