Sub Plans for Media Center
for Evelyn Bussell
Tuesday, November 15, 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.
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 - 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 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
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 book 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.”
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 Ms. Coley 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. 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. 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.
Please communicate to the teacher and/or IA that the Book Care Rules sheet needs to be placed inside of the student's library book and that they should take them home today.
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.
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