First Week

The first week of school is always hardest. Maybe it's the getting up early (or not staying up late), doing laundry in a timely fashion, or not wearing myself out with all-day Sims marathons.

Anyway, this year, our first week was a success! Not that last year's wasn't, but I believe this year we were both more prepared than our first (hopefully obvious, but I was nervous with all our changes). The new schedule we are on (fixed checkout time, schedule on an as-needed basis for lessons/research) is quite refreshing. It helps enable us to focus on library tasks, as well as creating lessons and displays.

It's been fun for me, to be honest. I've been given more clerical tasks than I had previously, and I also am going to be directing (sort of) and editing (definitely) an introductory film about our library. I feel comfortable in my new position, as well as challenged. I always like to have new challenges. That's when creativity can show up at it's finest.

The kids are very sweet, and I think this 4th grade class will be so great. They're strong learners, and were a joy to be around last year as 3rd graders. I hope I can help with some of the research projects, even though I'm not 100% sure about most of the research methods. It's always exciting, though.

This second week is pretty short and light for me. I'm hoping to get some more storyboarding done. I've never had to do it for a 3-5 minute feature, just a short news clip which did NOT turn out that well. Ah, well, that's learning. I'm going to try to read a couple book review journals to keep up my knowledge of what's coming out, and maybe glance over the stuff that's new.

Oh! And finish covering those darn books. Heh.