Thank you Mrs. B, from 180 Views from the Library Desk, for showing us a super way to use paint stirrers in the library!
She told us about it in the comments, but I know that some of you may not have read it down there in the fine print. I want to highlight her super idea. Mrs. B has one shelf marker per student, stores them in Pringle's cans for each class, puts the student barcodes onto the stick with a super tough Demco clear adhesive label, and each student keeps it for all of the years of elementary school. It becomes a combination shelf marker and library card. Cool!
Here is the video she made for her students in kinder and first, to show them how to use their "library sticks." (The photo is a link. When you click on it, you'll go to her wiki to see the video.)
Mrs. B, thank you for your generosity in sharing your "library stick" idea with us!
Great idea! As a new librarian, I can see this helping me learn names in my K-8 school too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, Nicole! I agree. Our students expect us to know their names, and it's so-o-o-o hard to learn so many! Seeing the name on the "library stick" can help us!
DeleteI just did this with my K-2 students. They loved it!
ReplyDeleteJulia, tell us more! Did your students decorate the sticks? Did you use paint? If you have a blog or website with photos, send me the link, and I'll share it here. I know many students would love it, but how did you handle the creative mess?
DeleteI add the homeroom teacher's name and their library day/grade level onto the barcode label (because I have multiple teachers with some classes and some split classes). The sticks are reused every year grades 1-5 but I do put a new label on them each year with the new teacher/library day information... just wish Destiny would allow me to add this information to the print out version of the barcode so I don't have to hand write on 600 sticks! I also color code the end of the stick so I know at a glance if it is the correct grade level when putting them away on an individual basis. I cover the barcode with cheap packing tape since it seems to stick on the best and wraps around the edge of the stick. My students love these over the 3"x5" index cards we used to use!
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