[LM_NET] Help! Need Ideas

[KAREN SMITH <karen.smith@WASATCH.EDU>]

I have recently been hired to open a new elementary school library and have heard 
wonderful things about this website so I'm here asking for your help and 
experience.   I have worked diligently all summer getting books ordered and the 
room set up.  I am now to the point I really need to start thinking about what I 
will be doing in a few weeks when the students show up.  I was wondering if any of 
you  have any great ideas on how to introduce rules and procedures.  I will have 
students filtering into this new school from three other schools.   I'm sure there 
were different expectations from each of the three different schools they left.  I 
know from classroom experience that the rules and procedures set forth the first 
day of school pretty much sets the tone for the whole year.  However, as a 
classroom teacher I had all day and really the whole first 
week to get these procedures into place.  I will only have an half hour with each 
class each week so I really need some clear cut expectations that you have found to 
make your libraries run smoothly.  I would like to learn from your mistakes and not 
my own.  Also, could anyone recommend a good book or website for lesson plans that 
are fun and engaging as you teach library skills?  One more thing.  Our school 
mascot is an owl.  Does anyone have some ideas on creating a theme in the library 
surrounding the owl.  I've already decided to create a bulletin board from 
something I just read from this site with the theme of introducing all the new 
teachers using an owl and a tree with the theme "Look Whoooo's Hanging Out At Our 
School."

Thanks so much already,
Karen Smith
Old Mill Elementary School
Heber City, UT
karen.smith@wasatch.edu

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