June 19th: Summer School Take 2

 

The new adjusted schedule seemed to work significantly better, it gave us time to prepare, and the teachers all seemed to be right on time! It was encouraging as well because we got to see the classes who didn’t make it last week as well. Similar to last week, Ms. Karen B and I alternated who did the story and who facilitated checkout. When watching the story during my turn at checkout, I observed a few differences in how we would each do our story part. Ms. Karen B would usually start with a brief introduction, then a song/chant before reading a story, and the end with a song/chant and directions. Typically, I would start with a brief introduction before reading one book, then I would end with a short game and directions. That said, we both tried to keep the story part to about ten to twelve minutes so the kids would have about ten minutes for checkout.

Groups that came last week to the bookmobile ended up brining back most of their books from last week. So, if I was on the checkout shift I would during Ms. Karen B’s introduction check in the returned books back to the library bookmobile. I would also answer any questions the teachers had as well. Then in the bits of downtime and during our hour lunch break, Ms. Karen B and I shelved our returned books. If not shelving, I was research newspaper fan crafts to do our last week at Sweetwater as we received more newspapers than we could us for the shark craft this week. Overall, this time at LTISD Summer School went a lot smoother. The kids most importantly seemed to enjoy the story and participated by answering questions or playing games or singing along- kid participation in my class eyes means the day was a success.


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