I LOVE the insanity!

One thing I pride myself on is that we never turn anyone away. We have a part fixed, part flex schedule which allows for open checkout on Monday afternoon, Friday mornings and all day on Thursdays. You have your normal frequent flyers... some teachers send their kids all the time. Some never let them come on their own (sad, I know, right?), but today was one of those CRAZY days! I didn't get an accurate headcount, but at one time we had 5 (count them, FIVE) classes in the media center during open checkout. IN-SANE! We had the Thomasville "Library Lady" doing her monthly story time with two kindergarten classes...

Then we had two second grade classes and one third grade class all decide at one time that 1:15 was the perfect time for their students to come check out books...

At one time, there were over 100 students in the media center at one time!  We also had 4th graders come in to use their "Tiger's Den Passes" - one of our positive behavior support incentives we use in the library.  Students are allowed to use these passes at their teacher's discretion (usually during their self-selected reading block) and for however long the teacher decides (10 minutes to an hour)....

We also had some 4th graders coming in to search for books using our iPad search stations:

Finally, a third grade class was planning on doing a book buddies with a kindergarten class.  The K class was already in the media center so we invited them to stay in here for their book buddies!  Why not?  It's the perfect instagram moment (@sedley1)!

So this was a pretty low-tech day in the media center, but one that was literacy rich!  

I mentioned earlier that we have a fixed-flex schedule, so every class has a 35 minute block in the media center each week.  Each of these classes came for a SECOND round of media center fun!  

Did I mention I love my job?