Brandy the Booklander: The StoryBook Room

So I've been to several different elementary libraries and they are all very different in their make-up. I love the ones with windows!!! But I've never worked in one. Several libraries that I've seen have been open, no walls, in the middle of the school. And I have to ask, who thought that was a good idea? I thought the library was supposed to be a quiet place. A place where students could come to be themselves and get away.

My current library is open in the middle of the school. We have some half walls and so it's not completely open, but it is LOUD!! Not sure how it is conducive to learning, but we are dealing with it. It was hard to find a good story time place, not under the stairs-too hot. Not by the stairs-too loud (sounds like cows are stomping on the stairs). And people walk through the library all the time, like we're part of the hallway, just because there are no doors. But this year, I've been allowed to take over a new room and it is fabulous!! It is a small room off the library that opens to the hallway and to the library. It is right next to my office, but way across the library from the check out desk. Here are some pictures. This is where I do almost all my lessons.

I hope that you enjoy a glance into my library! I love to see pictures online of other libraries! I've seen some great ideas!

Door into the room, where most classes enter. Chair for the teacher to sit in. If they stay!

Where I sit to read, with my objectives and scales (This week I read Bugs in My Hair by David Shannon to my littles, as an intro to the book fair, which will be here soon. Teachers were kind of creeped out!