Information about statistics, lessons, and events during the month of October 2010 in the Barrow Media Center.

1. October 2010 Monthly Report
Program Highlights
 Mr. Plemmons was in the top 3 teachers for District Teacher of the Year
 Our book fair raised $1796.88 for our media center
 The leader librarians cluster met with 2 vendors from Capstone and Childrens Plus
to search for new books for our school
 Thirty-six students completed the reading heroes challenge
 Our storybookparade was held on October 28th and some classes chose to do
themes focused on their grade level GPS, some focused on genre themes, and some
left student costume choices up to the students
 Mr. Plemmons presented the Barrow Oral History Project at the Georgia Council of
Media Organizations Conference in Athens,GA and also had a phone interview
with StoryCorps about the project
Andy Plemmons, Media Specialist
Sharon Rockholt, Media Paraprofessional
Website:
http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/aplemmons
Blog: http://barrowmediacenter.wordpress.com
Barrow Media Center

2. Number of Media Center Patrons: 2,058
Check Outs: 2,288
New Materials: 237 new books
Facebook: 1,035 visits
Blog Visits: 179 visits
Media Center Website: 1,392 visits
Data Snapshots

3. Collaborative Lessons
Pumpkins PreK Spurgeon
Theme 5th
-All
Animal & Plant
Research
Performance
Assessement
5th
-All
Narrative
Elements
1st
-Hart
Historical Fiction 3rd
grade-Rogers
Informational
Elements
1st
- all
Book Review
Podcasting
2nd
grade
spectrum
Storybook Parade K-all matched to
GPS themes
Informational
Writing &
Research
1st
grade-all
4th
grade-Freeman
& Landstrom
Entomology 1st
grade spectrum
Bees PreK-spurgeon
Pop Art Art teacher 4th
grade all classes
Leader Librarians 4 sessions with 12
3rd
-5th
graders

4. August 2010 Monthly Report
Barrow Media Center