October 2010 Monthly Report

Program Highlights Mr. Plemmons was in the top 3 teachers for District Teacher of the Year

Our book fair raised $1796.88 for our media center

The leader librarians cluster met with 2 vendors from Capstone and Childrens Plus

to search for new books for our school

Thirty-six students completed the reading heroes challenge

Our storybook parade was held on October 28th and some classes chose to do

themes focused on their grade level GPS, some focused on genre themes, and some

left student costume choices up to the students

Mr. Plemmons presented the Barrow Oral History Project at the Georgia Council of

Media Organizations Conference in Athens, GA and also had a phone interview

with StoryCorps about the project

Andy Plemmons, Media SpecialistSharon Rockholt, Media Paraprofessional

Website: http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/aplemmons

Blog: http://barrowmediacenter.wordpress.com

Barrow Media Center

Number of Media Center Patrons: 2,058

Check Outs: 2,288

New Materials: 237 new books

Facebook: 1,035 visits

Blog Visits: 179 visits

Media Center Website: 1,392 visits

Data Snapshots

Collaborative Lessons

Pumpkins PreK SpurgeonTheme 5th-AllAnimal & Plant Research Performance Assessement

5th-All

Narrative Elements

1st-Hart

Historical Fiction

3rd grade-Rogers

Informational Elements

1st- all

Book Review Podcasting

2nd grade spectrum

Storybook Parade

K-all matched to GPS themes

Informational Writing & Research

1st grade-all4th grade-Freeman & Landstrom

Entomology 1st grade spectrum

Bees PreK-spurgeonPop Art Art teacher 4th

grade all classesLeader Librarians

4 sessions with 12 3rd-5th graders

August 2010 Monthly Report

Barrow Media Center