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Little Free Library Comes to Moye

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What Does One Write on a Blog?

 

It has occurred to me that I am not sure what to write on my library blog.  In the past, I have used my website to keep track of and report on the "goings on" in our library.  But then I would turn around a put basically the same kind of stuff on my blog.  Kind of redundant you say?  I agree!  Especially when I actually had TWO websites going (my original website through Google which became too large to add more pictures to and my newer, replacement website through Weebly) that shared the same information that I wound up posting a third time here.  But I don't really have any followers - or not many - of my blog and/or my website(s), so in the grand scheme of things, does it matter if I even post anything anywhere at all?

But here I am at lunch on a Thursday in April, pondering these deep kinds of questions like 'what does one write on a blog?' and I have decided that I will begin posting new ideas and pilot projects on my blog in hopes that someone will happen along and comment on them.  And then I will post pictures and share information on library activities at H.R. Moye.  And if you are reading this and can offer some insight about the difference in blogs and websites and how I should be using each, I would welcome your suggestions. 

Sooo...a few weeks ago over spring break, I met with fellow EPISD librarian Lisa Lopez who works at Zavala Elementary School to receive her kind donation of the Little Free Library for H.R. Moye.  The Little Free Library idea originated with Todd Bol and Rick Brooks in hopes of 'building a sense of community and a love of reading' with their cranberry crate little free libraries.  Learn more about the humble beginnings of this magnificent project at http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/index.html. 

The Little Free Library project came to El Paso when Lisa Lopez introduced the program to her school community at Zavala Elementary.  In a no time, Zavala was on the news locally and nationally, sharing the success of their first Little Free Library and have since implemented a second LFL outside the school.  Eager to share her experience and encourage other area librarians to join the LFL craze, Lisa donated a cranberry crate library to the students at H.R. Moye and the rest is...history...in the making!

 

Our LFL has been in place for approximately two weeks in the Moye library.  I am hoping, now that state assessment tests will be officially behind us at the close of business today, to really begin promoting use of the Little Free Library among all of our students.  While I was out of town for TLA last week and during testing this week, the LFL has been located right inside the library door.  But it is yearning to broaden its horizons and to venture down the halls and into the classrooms around the whole school.  And if the project is successful, I will be eager to get a second LFL for outside that can be used by Moye mountain lions during the summer break.  Stay tuned!!!

 

Fast and Furious February

The shortest month of the year was one day longer this year with Leap Day, but it still went by with the blink of an eye.  (Hey, that rhymes!)  We celebrated Valentine's day and Dr. Seuss-Read Across America week; the upper grade students have been unable to come to the library for the most part because of the pressure to prepare for the STAAR test, but those who did come, reviewed the arrangement of the library and the Dewey Decimal System. 

The younger Moye mountain lions had lessons on hibernation, using and comparing fiction and nonfiction books on animals that hibernate.  They also listened to the story The Hat by author Jan Brett and completed a hat-shaped worksheet where they were asked to write the beginning, middle and ending events in the story as well as the author's purpose.  

During Dr. Seuss week, the students, faculty and staff wore crazy socks one day, crazy hats another, and made birthday cards to wish Dr. Seuss a happy birthday.  In the library, we made the Cat in the Hat and shared some of Dr. Seuss's less well known books written under his pen name Theo. LeSieg.  Second graders listened to my favorite Seuss story Horton Hatches an Egg, and identified the ways the characters changed from the beginning to the end of the book.  First graders read My Many Colored Days and made little paper dolls like the characters in the book and writing about how certain colors make them feel.  Dr. Seuss week helps all of us to feel young or young at heart again.