School with no kids

Today was a Professional Development and Teacher Work day at school. I had the usual running around to do between buildings. It's funny, as I went from building to building, how eerie and quiet everything was. Meetings were done for the day and everyone had quietly retreated to get much needed work done on lesson plans, classrooms, or some equally important thing. Sometimes it's fun to be a school after hours and have it all to yourself, but today just didn't feel like one of those days.

I did get to spend some real time at one building being PRODUCTIVE in the afternoon. As the 3rd quarter starts my Mondays will be spent in one of my elementary buildings. The amount of work I have piled up in this building is amazing. Usually, I'm only here one day a week and then I've got non-stop classes and lessons. Now I'll have an extra day that's completely open to get all the busy work that's piled up done. I've got a stack of books to re-catalog or fix labels. I've got another stack of new books waiting for spine labels to be created, printed, and attached. Some of these things would normally be done by my associate, but in this building she is only part time and doesn't have much in the way of tech skills. Creating a new template for the spine labels is a bit out of her league. So, things like that tend to pile up more easily. I'm excited to be able to get some of this housekeeping done. But I'm also excited to be in the elementary more.

At the elementary level I have two buildings and I see each class for 30 minutes once a week. Sometimes I feel like my library lessons are bare bones, not relevant, or too low tech. I'd like to spend some of this extra time creating more interesting and RELEVANT library lessons for the elementary students. I've got a couple of observation/evaluations coming up in the second semester so this is the time to get on it. I need to see what I can really do with the materials I've got available...wish me luck!