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May. 13th, 2011 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWednesday at the library felt a little crazier than usual. When I got there, the area where the tables and chairs usually are had been cleared. All the tables and chairs were stacked off to one side. I ended up helping the librarian move everything back into place in the ten minutes before the kids arrived. Moving the tables took both of us, and we had to be careful because I'm not supposed to lift very much.
There was a lot of shelving to be done, and I got to almost none of it. I did get the nonfiction into call number order so that it would be easier for someone else to shelve. I just wasn't in a position to spend the time on it.
Instead, I helped the second graders with their projects. For several weeks now, they've been working on this. The idea is to take an animal, list three or four facts about it, find a picture of it, print the whole thing out and make a poster. The picture and the name of the animal are hidden while the facts are out in the open. People can lift the flap to see what the animal is. The whole project was a hassle. The kids needed help with every step of it-- They had to use a particular website, for example, and often ended up taking a lot of time to find it. Formatting the facts and the picture in Pages was also frequently difficult. It took a lot of patience to verbally walk the kids through what they were doing when my instinct was to do it myself because I could do it so much faster.
There was a lot of shelving to be done, and I got to almost none of it. I did get the nonfiction into call number order so that it would be easier for someone else to shelve. I just wasn't in a position to spend the time on it.
Instead, I helped the second graders with their projects. For several weeks now, they've been working on this. The idea is to take an animal, list three or four facts about it, find a picture of it, print the whole thing out and make a poster. The picture and the name of the animal are hidden while the facts are out in the open. People can lift the flap to see what the animal is. The whole project was a hassle. The kids needed help with every step of it-- They had to use a particular website, for example, and often ended up taking a lot of time to find it. Formatting the facts and the picture in Pages was also frequently difficult. It took a lot of patience to verbally walk the kids through what they were doing when my instinct was to do it myself because I could do it so much faster.
