1. Conley’s Library

2. A little bit about me My goal is to help you and provide you with resources to get our kids where they need to be.  *Twenty years as a classroom teacher  *Second year as a information literacy specialist  *18 of my years was in third and fourth grade  *Galena park/Aldine

3. Library book return process  A student/myself/assistant will deliver a crate to you the day before your scheduled day.  Have kids fill crate with books and return it in am the next day.  The crate will then rotate to the next teacher.  repeat

4. Book checkout  Student id numbers needed for checkout  My kinder and first grade babies need to have a card with lunch # to checkout  Kindergarten-first grade = 2 books  Second- fourth = 3 books  Depending on class/ student= 4 books Teachers can checkout with your id badge

5. Class sets  We have over 50 sets of books to use in your classroom for workstations, literature circles, guided reading, book clubs, shared reading, or independent reading.  Please check them out and use them.

6. Online Resources  Free Britannia subscriptions- Spanish too  Culture grams  Discovery education streaming  eBooks/audiobooks- apps/cell phone  Maps  Pebblego  Nettrekker (google)  Teachingbooks.net  Tumblebooks  Wikispaces  Weebly  Animato  Toondoo  Podcasts

7. Online Resources We have lots of resources available to you and our students. IPads are available to checkout for use in the classroom, However the chrome books is only for use in the library and can‘t be taken out of the lmc.

8. Library card campaign  Goal- 100% of students with a Harris county public library card.  Please get your students to return the application.  Each class that get 100% participation will get a reward  Pictures of each class with their new library card.  Teachers too.

9. Book character day  A week before Halloween, we will have book character day. Students will dress up as their favorite book character or each class can focus on one book and represent their book.

10. Character Pumpkin decorating Contest

11. Socrative

12. Animoto Create Your OWN Book Trailer  As any author can tell you, promoting your book is a challenge. In addition to standard marketing techniques, you must find new and innovative ways to engage with your readers. One way to do that is to create an animated book trailer.  But not many people know how to make a book trailer. While it’s difficult to create animation from scratch, it can actually be quite simple to create a simple book trailer by yourself.

13. Animoto Video

14. Remind  Remind ( ​ http://remind.com ​ ),  formerly known as Remind 101, is a great tool for sending important reminders to students and their parents. Through Remind students and their parents can sign ‐ up to receive text messages on their mobile devices. You send the messages from your computer or mobile device without students or parents seeing your personal cell phone number. Like regular text messages that you might send to friends, you can attach files to messages that you send through Remind. Messages can be sent to individuals or to groups that you create in your Remind account.

16. Student Treasures Publishing This is a great program to motivate our students to write. Lets get our Students to be authors! www.studentreasures.com

17. Any questions, please stop by or email me. I will be available for some of your plc meetings to offer any assistance or resources so our students can master the objectives.