March 2011 report
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March 2011 Monthly Report Program Highlights 5 th grade Battle of the Books teams participated in the school battle. The winning team, Fantastic Five, will now move on to the district competition on April 14 th . Dr. Seuss Day was held on March 2 nd and community members, parents, and fraternity/sorority members came to read Seuss books to all classes. Our Exemplary Media Center Open House was held on March 3 rd and educators from around the state came to learn for the entire day. We were also featured in the Athens Banner Herald. http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/030411/new_794243719 .shtml Mr. Plemmons presented the Barrow Oral History Project at the Georgia Conference on Children’s Literature. The media center also sponsored 2 teachers’ attendance at the conference, Mrs. Yawn & Mrs. Rogers. Mr. Plemmons assisted in writing the new vision and mission of the Clarke County School District. Kim James, children’s librarian with the Athens Regional Library, was a guest speaker for the stitching stars storytellers group. Andy Plemmons, Media Specialist Sharon Rockholt, Media Paraprofessional Website: http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/apl emmons Barrow Media Center
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A monthly report of data and happenings in the David C. Barrow Elementary Media Center.
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March 2011 Monthly Report
Program Highlights
5th grade Battle of the Books teams participated in the school battle. The winning
team, Fantastic Five, will now move on to the district competition on April 14th.
Dr. Seuss Day was held on March 2nd and community members, parents, and
fraternity/sorority members came to read Seuss books to all classes.
Our Exemplary Media Center Open House was held on March 3rd and educators
from around the state came to learn for the entire day. We were also featured in the
Athens Banner Herald.
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/030411/new_794243719.shtml
Mr. Plemmons presented the Barrow Oral History Project at the Georgia
Conference on Children’s Literature. The media center also sponsored 2 teachers’
attendance at the conference, Mrs. Yawn & Mrs. Rogers.
Mr. Plemmons assisted in writing the new vision and mission of the Clarke County
School District.
Kim James, children’s librarian with the Athens Regional Library, was a guest
speaker for the stitching stars storytellers group.
Multiple collaborative poetry projects were planned for early April
139 students completed our March reading incentive program, Ticket to Read.
The media center poetry contest began.
The spring book fair raised over $1700 for the media center and over $1000 in free
books.
Andy Plemmons, Media SpecialistSharon 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: 3,455
Check Outs: 2,458
New Materials: 56
Facebook visits: 323 & 191 “likes”
Blog Visits: 875
Media Center Website visits: 2,079
Data Snapshots
Collaborative Lessons
Using Boolify to effectively search
3rd grade: Griffith & Rogers
Thurgood Marshall Pathfinder
All 3rd grade
Rocks K-EmPersuasive Writing
All K
Poetry Overview 2nd-YawnPreK-Spurgeon, All 1st
List Poetry K-Li1st-Wyatt
Solar System 4th-FreemanShape Poetry PreK-Spurgeon
3 lesson seriesShape Poetry 2nd-BrinkPersuasive Photo Story Project
4th-Landstrom
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March 2011 Monthly Report
Barrow Media Center
Barrow Blog Posts: February Report Dr. Seuss Day Exemplary Open House Exemplary Open House Part 2 Barrow Oral History Project Presentation Stitching Stars Storytellers Battle of the Books Poetry Lessons 2011 PreK Shape Poetry
GLMA Blog Posts: Student Collaboration with Glogster
EDU
5th Grade Battle of the Books Winners
5th Grade Poetry Display
