Two of the big curves when moving from school to school are getting to know your new reading population and getting to know your collection! My new school is elementary, pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Every school is different, so spending time looking at the books you have and asking the students what they enjoy reading is very important!
I also found that my new collection didn’t have a number of my favorite series and books, so I had to add a few to the books that the students and teachers were asking for. I have been blessed at all the schools I’ve worked for to have a healthy budget, so I got started ordering.
My daughter and I have talked about starting our own BookTube channel on Youtube. I decided this would be good practice for me to get a little more comfortable in front of the camera and try a more flipped learning approach since I wanted to show all the new books to all my classes. I decided to make an Everybody Book Haul and a Fiction Book Haul.
This has been a great way to share the books on the news and our website. I’ll do another post soon about how I ended up doing smaller videos on Flipgrid and inviting my older students to start a book conversation.
