Sub Plans for Media Center
for Evelyn Bussell
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Thank you for subbing for me! I’m at a professional development meeting today so if you have any questions you can try texting me at 919-539-8467. Please write me any notes about how your day goes, about particular classes or students that I should know about.
Step-by-step directions for setting up the CheckIN and the CheckOUT computers are located in a plastic page protector hanging next to my office door.
BEFORE SCHOOL
Turn on lights in Media Center
Set up CheckIN computer near the front door on the book return, and the two CheckOUT computers on the end of the circulation desk. Directions are located in the plastic page protector hanging next to my office door.
Log onto the laptop that is on the table by the tv in the fiction section and that is connected to the tv. To project the laptop to the tv, simply turn the tv on after you have the laptop turned on.
Go ahead and open tabs for the following sites:
Morning Duty 8:45-9:15am - Junior Librarians & Open Circulation in the Media Center
Junior Librarians can:
Sort books from the blue cart
Put books that go in bins back in their bins
Put the yellow labeled books in their appropriate section of the wooden non-fiction browsing bin in the Everyone section.
Go to class at the 9:10 bell.
If any other students come by, they MUST check in with their teacher first. They MUST return to their classroom no later than 9:10.
Water bottles, backpacks, lunch boxes/bags, playground equipment should all be left on/at the table by the front door next to the light switch panel.
SCHEDULE:
9:30am-10:15am - 3rd Grade - Elmore
10:20am-11:05am - Kindergarten - Arnold
11:10am-11:55am- 1st Grade - Casler & Schmidt
12:35-1:20pm - 2nd Grade - Baker & Raynor
1:25-2:10pm - 4th Grade - Eller
2:15-2:45pm - Planning
2:50-3:35pm - 5th Grade - Hanson
SEATING & Book Return
ALL Grades As students come in, have them place any water bottles, bookbags, lunch boxes, etc. on the table or floor in the rainbow taped off section at the front door. The following students are fairly reliable for knowing the correct way to check in and checkout books. You can ask them to be helpers.
2nd grade - Asher & Charlotte
3rd grade - Alex, Caelyn & Layla M.
4th grade - Jenna & Oscar
5th grade - Vada & Grayson
Kindergarten students will sit in the Everyone section. I’ve put out carpet squares for them. You should direct students to a letter, and I typically go in order starting with the first person in line going to the square closest to the FACP closet door in front of the orange chair and going Left to Right.
Students in 1st-5th grades will sit in the Fiction section. You should ask the classroom teacher to assist you with seating them so that they are not with or next to students they should not be.
At the beginning of every single class I review the expectations using the following script:
My expectations today are the same as last week and all year long.
I expect that you will Be Safe and you will Be Respectful.
Right now being safe looks like sitting on your bottom, your body is in control and your body parts are kept to yourself. (If students will be moving around the room, substitute "using walking feet" for sitting on your bottom)
Right now being respectful looks like eyes and ears are on me, your mouth and body are quiet and you are paying attention. (If students are sitting for a lesson or read-aloud)
OR
Right now being respectful looks like using a whisper voice, staying on task to ________ and not bothering other students.
1st through 5th grades
Snow Globe Family Read Aloud & Drawing
After students are seated, review the expectations as scripted above.
State the following at the beginning and anytime during the period that students are talking, playing or otherwise not paying attention:
“I will wait until you are ready. I will know you are ready when you are sitting on your bottom, your hands are in your lap, your eyes and ears are on me, and your mouth is quiet.”
Project the laptop to the tv, on the tab displaying The Snow Globe Family read-aloud and play the video.
Next, provide the students with a piece of paper and a pencil.
Switch to the tab displaying Kid Art Hub Snowglobe drawing video. Play the video, pausing after each drawing step so students can follow along.
When there are approximately 10-15 minutes left students who need to check out may do so.** Directions are located on the counter in front of the check out computers. If someone clicks on the wrong thing and it looks like a white screen with some text in the top left corner, press the F11 button on the keyboard to get out of full screen mode, close that tab and return it to the check out screen.
**You will need to go to the CheckOUT computer and go through each student in the 1st and 2nd grade classes and call out the names of students who have zero books out and tell them that they can check out. The students in 3rd-5th grades can handle this on their own.
Kindergarten
Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter
You will need the laptop and the book (Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter)
Ms. Coley - the IA - should check in their books, but if not, you can ask her to watch the students while you scan their books. At the check IN computer (the one on top of the return bin close to the main entrance) simply scan the Pleasant Grove Elementary barcode on the back of the book. Take out their name slip from the book (it’s lime green), set it aside and place the books on the blue cart.
After students are seated, review the expectations as scripted above.
State the following at the beginning and anytime during the period that students are talking, playing or otherwise not paying attention:
“I will wait until you are ready. I will know you are ready when you are sitting on your bottom, your hands are in your lap, your eyes and ears are on me, and your mouth is quiet.”
Ask students to tell you what season it is. (Fall / Autumn) Then ask them what season comes next. (Winter).
Ask students to tell you ways that winter is different from autumn and/or what they know about winter.
Read aloud Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter.
Have students tell you things they noticed about winter in the book.
Ask students to sit up nice and tall, criss-cross-applesauce and tell them they are going to have a mindful moment as snowmen. Remind them that this is a quiet and still activity, and they must listen and follow the directions.
Play the Snowman Winter Meditation video. You do NOT need to show the students the screen, just have the laptop loud enough for them to hear it.
Select 3-4 students at a time to pick out a library book from the non-fiction browsing bins - the same ones they’ve been getting books from the last few weeks. Ms. Coley can show you or them.
Once they’ve picked out their books, place their name slip inside the book and check it out for them at the check OUT computer (either one of the two at the end of the circulation desk. Follow the directions on the counter. Their teacher’s name is listed as karnold, though some may now be in jbialos homeroom. Instead of clicking “Reset” after checking out each student’s book, you can click “Select Patron” and it will take you back to their homeroom.
If time remains you can read a book to them of your choosing.
Planning- 2:15-2:45pm
Pick up carpet squares in the Everyone section and place them in a neat stack on the circle table.
Straighten books on carts and on shelves. Books on shelves should be pulled forward so that the spines of the books are at the front edge of the shelf.
End of Day
Wipe down & straighten tables & chairs
Help in the Media Center w/K-2 students for carpool, 3:45-4:15pm.
Turn off computers