What's your Dewey #?  

This is a great activity to teach your students about the importance of putting your books away correctly using the Dewey Decimal System.

You take your month your where born and the day you where born to find your Dewey #.  Mine is 318.19??
My birth date is March 18 19??



I have been using this idea in my Media Center this week.  
I showed them that what my number was and where I would live on the shelf. I then had the student figure out their DEWEY number.  We wrote it down on a card.  I then had all the students line up in numerical number.  We talked about how important it was to find your place and be proud to reside on that shelf.  Then I took someone away and shoved them in a random numerical order.  We talked about how frustrating it is to use the researchers and be so excited that a book was in but then to find out it had been shelved incorrectly.  What a fun activity.  
Thanks for the great idea Nancy Christiansen (Aspen Elementary).

Do you have a chalkboard in your Media Center?

My daughter got into chalkboard art this summer and inspired me to use the chalkboard in my Media Center this year to share/reinforce areas of focus for our school. I put up this welcome at the beginning of the year, but will be changing it occasionally as we make different challenges to our students. 

In September we are encouraging students to create something for the Reflections Art contest. I have pulled books about art, photography, writing, dance, music, filmmaking and such and created this "chalkboard art" to remind students to be creative this month.

 Remember when we did "Book Spine Poetry" at the Peggy Sharp workshop? I thought I would give it a try in April for National Poetry Month, here are a  couple poems we created from books in my library. Searching/reading the titles really got students looking at books they may normally overlook. It was fun!

GREAT Site!

This is an amazing site for Media Specialists! Powerpoint presentations, bookmarks, posters, worksheets, and all kinds of "helps!"

http://ccssmswikishare.wikispaces.com/

Please share any other wonderful sites you find!

WE ARE SO EXCITED!!

I just wanted to share some fun that we've been having at Riverview...

All summer we've been reading for Scholastic's "Read for the World Record" Challenge, and we have blown our own socks off!

The challenge started May 1st, and ran through August 31st, and during that time the students read, and read, and READ!! More minutes were read, than were logged I'm sure, but all the same the students did SUCH a great job, that Riverview was ranked FIRST in the state of Utah, and FOURTEENTH in the WORLD!  The final tally's will be posted by Scholastic in a couple of weeks, and we are excited to see the FINAL totals.  The top 20 schools get their name in the Scholastic Book of World Records, 2013.  Yay us!! (flags in the pic below represent the top 20 schools =)