And here we go again! I feel like I just posted about our 4th six weeks, and here we are, already at the 5th six weeks. Before you know it, we will be out for the summer. However, we do have to get through "testing season" first. April will be the state mandated EOC tests; the first half of May will be AP testing, and then we have final exams. The students' last day is Thursday, May 21st, and teachers are out on the 22nd. Our graduation is first up on Friday, during our teacher work day. I feel bad for all of those senior teachers who give an exam on Thursday, and then have to grade them and finalize their grades before Friday morning. Who thought that was a good idea?
However, back to the subject at hand . . . the library usage statistics. As always, I am proud of how our library is used. Lots of students coming in, checking out books, playing games, and using our computers and/or printer. Our Beanstack reading minutes continue to rise. Last 6 weeks, it was a little above 9,000 minutes, and this time around it was over 11,000. I also like to see some of the older books hit the top 5. Harry Potter was number 1 this time. So fun! I am sure that has something to do with the hype about the new series coming to . . . . is it Netflix, Paramount, maybe Disney +? It's hard to keep up with those streaming services these days.
I think my favorite activity I started this year is to recognize my top 5 students who checked out the most books. One of my goals this year is to bump up the number of books checked out per person. I have been holding steady at a whopping 2 - two books per child for the whole year. My goal this year is 4 books per kid. This is one of the ways I am trying to create more book traffic, to announce the top 5 students every 6 weeks. I'll let you know at the end of the year how that goal goes. Wish me luck!
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