Sub Plans for Media Center
for Evelyn Bussell
Monday, November 14, 2022
Thank you for subbing for me! I’m home with a sick kid 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.
Please note: I have already set up the check in and check out computers. IF for some reason they get logged out, the step-by-step directions are located in a plastic page protector hanging next to my office door.
BEFORE SCHOOL
Turn on lights in Media Center
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. I’ve put a sticky note where the power button is.
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.
BOOK FAIR - PTA covers this. If any students come for the Book Fair, they HAVE to check in with their teachers first. Any students who try to come after 9:10 should be returned to class. They will have a chance to purchase during their Media Specials.
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 - Q
10:20am-11:05am - Kindergarten - Sandora
11:10am-11:55am- 1st Grade - Steinkirchner & Schmidt
12:35-1:20pm - 2nd Grade - Sparrow & Raynor
1:25-2:10pm - 4th Grade - Sheehan
2:15-2:45pm - ECS
2:50-3:35pm - 5th Grade - Oberdorf
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 - Everett & Eliza
3rd grade - Samuel, Keira & Dominic
4th grade - August, Kyden & Emma
5th grade - Annie & Adelaide
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 L to R.
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.
3rd Grade - 9:30-10:15am - 4th Grade - 1:25-2:10pm - 5th Grade - 2:50-3:35pm
Macy’s Day Parade
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.”
Find out how many students have money to spend at the Book Fair. Determine if you are going to send all of them or a few at a time to do so.
Project the laptop to the tv, on the tab displaying the Macy’s Day websites.
Provide the students with a piece of notebook paper and a pencil.
Tell the students that they are going to learn about the history of the Macy’s Day Parade today. They are to write at least 7 facts they learn about it on their paper for Ms. Bussell to review.
You may choose to start with either website, and you may decide if you want to read aloud the text or call on a student or students to read aloud to the class. You may also play any of the videos on either site pertaining to the parade.
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.
Kindergarten - 10:20-11:05am
Book Care Rules
Mrs. V - the IA - should check in their books and she can also do their check out.
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.”
Tell the students that today they are going to review how to take care of library books because today they get to take them home!
Give each student a Book Care paper.
Review with them each box. Ask them to talk about why each rule is important.
Find out which students need to buy from the Book Fair - you may need to refer to Mrs. V. for this info.
Send the appropriate students to the book fair.
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. Mrs. V. can show you or them.
If time remains you can read a book to them of your choosing.
1st - Grade - 11:10am-11:55am, 2nd Grade - 12:35-1:20pm
Macy’s Day Parade
After students are seated, review the expectations as scripted above.
Find out how many students have money to spend at the Book Fair. Determine if you are going to send all of them or a few at a time to do so.
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.”
Read aloud to them Balloons Over Broadway
Depending on remaining time you may either:
Show the pictures / videos from the Macy’s Day websites and then do checkout
Just do checkout
You may need to help them at the check OUT computer. Directions are on the counter in picture and word form.
ECS - 2:20ish-2:40ish
Have students sit in the Fiction area
Ask if they like parades or if they’ve ever been to a parade
Read aloud to them Balloons Over Broadway
If time allows, you can show them pictures and/or videos from the Macys Day parade websites on the tv
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