Week 2: Success?

Its hard to measure success when you've just finished a week with four school days in it. Its even HARDER when your next letter day on Monday is literally insane, but its okay. Part of the learning process, right? I think I'm having a hard time figuring out how to teach children and to control them, i.e. getting them to class on time. One of my duties is walking them from library to their next class, which could be their home room or science class or lunch. Whatever the case may be, these little people are hard to herd.

I have some goals set for myself this weekend. They may or may not be feasible, but, hey, I'm tryin'! I don't have an MLS and I certainly have not dealt with children in a library setting in years. All I want is for them to love the library! That's it, plain and simple. I didn't realize that we would have to develop a curriculum, and basically start from scratch. I mean, I sort of did, but I didn't know how time consuming and expensive it all is.

And another thing? This is random, but I need to put this out there. I cannot be the only person who feels this way (SIDETRACK, begin). Why are all the teacher's websites or library website's so UGLY? It looks like someone threw up an old Angelfire page from back in '97 and they forget it was there.

I digress.

My goals for this weekend are:

• educate myself on the proper layout of the educational library
• read a Bluebonnet book
• read Geronimo Stilton (I also have "The Name of This Book is a Secret" and I'll probably finish that quickly)
• come up with some kind of curriculum layout for Pre-K and Kinder
• associate myself with the ideas of "Daily Five" and "Centers" (these things are foreign to me)

I have to learn a lot, but I'm open to it. I do feel frustrated and judged that I haven't finished college yet, but that will be changing soon.  So far, I'm proud that I've accomplished such great things in a short amount of time and cannot wait for the trimester to get a-rollin'!