April - Deep Run High School Library

April 1-4

We worked with 23 classes this week.
Mrs. Russ's classes presented their Mythology criminal cases this week in the library.

Evidence being presented to the Judge

Judge Smart

     

Opening Statement

Judge Battistone

Approaching the bench with Judge Fennessey

Judge Kish gives a verdit

                             

Judge Pritchard hears evidence

Similar Court Case

   
   





Mrs. Dickey had 2 classes start a project on Roman Tours, where students create slideshows and become tour guides of their content and slides. Click here to see the lesson: Wildcats Roman Tours
Mrs. Stockdale had 2 classes come and learn how to create a smores study guide for SOL reviews
Mr. Hudson had 3 classes work in the library this week in Media 2 classroom.

April 7-11

Page turners book club met on Monday after school where we discussed this month reading of  Enders's Game. Then played the game sequence.

 

Sammye won the game and got to choose a book as her prize for winning.







Tuesday morning doughnuts from Mrs. Carpenter to celebrate National Library Month. Yummy

Mrs. Dickey's classes presenting their projects as tour guides on Rome Tours:

             

 

Public service announcement played on the morning announcements this week to promote National
School Library Month.

On Thursday Mrs. Lopez attended a Henrico21  scoring meeting at the school board office from 1:00-4:00.

Come during study hall on Thursday or Friday this week and read or check out a book in honor of National Library Month. Study hall teachers can give you a pass. You can read in the courtyard or the library. Check out this video about our new books.

Special pass to the library during study hall and National Library Month

Students reading in the courtyard during study-hall.

Friday we held an ice cream social in the library after all lunches for teachers and in honor of National Library Month.

Teacher's enjoying the ice cream social

Friday the PTA hospitality committee brought the library staff lunch from Panera Bread.

We worked with 19 classes this week.


April 14-18

We were on spring break this week.
Mrs. Lopez went to Disney World with her husband, daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
Mrs. Smart went to Staunton Virginia with her husband and daughter.
Mrs. Leonard celebrated her birthday over spring break.

April 21-25

On Tuesday we had a secondary librarians meeting at Belmont Recreation Association and found out about new Gale databases that the county is planning to purchase and EasyBib which will be purchased for all schools next year.

We also had the new grants coordinator present at our meeting and explain the process of applying for grants in the county. 

Mrs. Lopez has been working on scoring Henrico21 lessons this week for the county committee.

Mrs. Smart attended informational meetings this week about National Board Certification. 

We worked with 5 of Mrs. Gage's classes this week on copyright and images. 

Mrs. Smart teaching the lesson

applying what they learned

Mrs. Smart explaining usage rights

April 28-30

We worked with 2 of Mr. Clarkson's classes twice this week on writing a research paper.

Mrs. Smart assisting students

Students working independently

We worked with 2 of Mr. O'Dell's Oceanography classes this week on a research presentation.

Mrs. Smart introducing databases

teacher collaboration

One database students used

We had an athletic signing in the library for Caroline Mosberg, who will be playing tennis for Mary Washington University next school year. Congratulations Caroline.

Caroline with her parents and grandmother

Mrs. Lopez attended the final Henrico21 scoring committee meeting at Glen Allen High School this week.
Mrs. Smart worked at the Mr. Deep Run Competition this week after school on Monday evening.
We attended the National Library Month celebration with other librarians, principals, and school board members at Varina High School on Wednesday after school from 4:00-6:00.

There were 17 teaching days in April
We worked with 46 classes this month
We collected $14.40 in library fines this month
We collected $30.60 in color printing this month
We checked out 146 books this month

March- Deep Run High School Library

March- 3-7
Mrs. Lopez sold tickets to the spring play on March 1st for the final performance Saturday night. Students performed, "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Program for the play

It SNOWED and we were out of school on March 3rd and March 4th.
We started 2 hours late on Wednesday March 5th.
We worked with 7 classes on March 6th and 7th.
Mrs. Smart sponsored the Deep Run Challenge Club meeting this week in the small gym.
We worked with 2 of Mrs. Latcovish's classes on using the online magazine Glossi for a project. Click here to see the lesson- House of Hanover Glossi Magazine Lesson
We worked with 4 of Mrs. Russ's classes on Mythology and becoming attorneys to try their cases about mythology Gods. Click here to see the lesson- Do the Crime-Do the Time Mythology lesson

Mrs. Russ giving instructions

We had a tailgate library promotion by the girl's team in Mr. Dickey's leadership class during extended study.

Students had to check out a book to get a ticket to come to the tailgate. We had more than 100 students there.

Get a ticket for book checkout

Food and Fun at the tailgate

Corn hole game at tailgate

Card game at tailgate

   






March 10-14
We rescheduled and held our Page Turners book club meeting this Monday.

Page Turners Game-Griffin the winner

We work with 8 classes this week.
We worked with 2 of Mr. Buscska's classes on World War II stations for 2 days. Click here to see the lesson - World War II Culture lesson

Mr. Bucska's class doing stations

We worked with 2 of Mrs. Gibson's classes on building a character profile using the online scrapbook mixbook. Click here to see the lesson-Character Profile lesson  

Mrs. Lopez explaining the Character Profile Project

Mrs. Gibson assisting students

Student creating mixbook scrapbook

We went and observed 2 of Mr. O'Dell's classes as they presented their projects which we helped them work on earlier using the online site Smores.

Students final project

Mr. O'Dell helping students make Smores

We worked with 3 of Mrs. Stockdale's classes this week on a World War II lesson. Click here to see the lesson- Take a Gander at Propaganda

Mrs. Smart giving instructions

example for students

   





We hosted a mentoring committee meeting on March 13 for all new librarians in the county. Mrs. Lopez is a mentor to the new GAHS librarian. The meeting started at 3:00 and ended at 5:00.

Mentoring Meeting at DRHS

Mrs. Tatum and Mrs. Lopez at Mentoring Meeting

   

Mrs. Smart collaborating with Mrs. Stockdale about lessons starting March 24th.  

March 14 is Pi Day- of course we have to support that by buying a piece of Pie!

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Mrs. Lopez and Mrs. Smart with Pie

March 14 & 15 was the Deep Run Marathon Dance- Our school raised over $254,000 for charity.

Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Lopez supporting DRMD with t-shirts

March 17-21
We were out of school on March 17th for SNOW.
We started 2 hours late on March 18th because of SNOW and ICE.
We worked with 3 of Mr. Hudson's  government classes using mixbook to compare countries. To see the lesson click here: example mixbook

Mr. Hudson assisting students

CIA World Fact Book

   





We worked with 4 of Mrs. Russ classes on their mythology projects this week.
We worked with 3 of Mrs. Pierce classes this week on resources about the 1960's.

Book sources for Mrs. Pierce's class

We had Mr. Dickey's leadership class, the boys team held tutoring sessions and bake sales during extended study 3 times this week in the library to promote the use of the library.

Tutoring and snacks in the library

Leadership tutoring

 

Mrs. Smart's book display

Cute sayings to catch your attention

More good books

March 24-31

We had a faculty meeting on Monday the 24th at 8:00am.
Visitors from North Carolina came to observe at our school.

Visitors observing in the library

We worked with one of Mrs. Carpenter's classes. They came to the library for poetry stations. To see the lesson and stations click here: poetry stations

Mrs. Carpenter's class

Mrs. Carpenter assisting students

 




We worked with 3 of Mrs. Stockdale's classes this week on The Cold War using a Glossi online Magazine.

We had a high school  librarians meeting this week at Belmont Recreation Association for 9:30-11:00.
There was a sales representative from Gale who showed us the Gale Virtual Reference Library, which can
be easily accessed from OneSearch. Online reference books that can be used by many students at the same time.

We had new books delivered this week and are now on display for students. Many non-fiction and fiction books to add to our collection. 

We had 21 teaching days in the month of March
We were out 3 of those days for SNOW 
We started one day 2 hours late for snow and ice
We worked with 8 different teachers this month
We worked with 39 classes this month.
We had 17 visitors from North Carolina schools come and observe classes all day on Wednesday March 26th. The visitors included superintendents, principals, teachers, and students. 
Mrs. Lopez and Mrs. Smart helped serve along with others as facilitators of their tour. 
We had a leadership class where 2 teams held library promotional events this month.
We checked out 261 books this month
We collected $55.35 in color printing this month
We collected $8.75 in library fines this month.