Another term has come to a close with a week of exams, high energy Christmas parties, and the annual staff outings for each of our schools. While the students and teachers 
prepared for and took exams, we continued to work in each of our libraries. Ginnie’s is just beginning and Anthony’s is in a period of re-organization. Ginnie’s been very busy (with Anthony's assistance) cataloguing over 4000 books sent to Trinity in a donation coordinated by Mount Ida College and contributed to in large part by the students of South Elementary School in Hingham, as well as by her mom’s coworkers in South Carolina, and family and friends. The books are excellent and the children are so excited to have a library opening up in the next term. Right now, we are still in the midst of important aspects to the project – seeking funds for the shipping costs and for materials to add much needed shelves, chairs, and tables to the space. For now, all the books are organized into levels and we’ll do a modified check-out system where teachers and I pick out books for students to browse and select for use in class until we have a functional library where students can browse 
shelves. Throughout the cataloguing and organizing and labeling process, children come into the library and ask to look at books. They love having them and we are both so excited to have both school libraries really user-friendly and accessible to all teachers and students. We are both very grateful for the donations and for the time several high school students from Wesley College have put into helping with our organization projects. The students working at Trinity stamped and labeled over 2000 books with color-coded and alphabetized stickers – they were quite a huge help!
In addition to all these books, we’ve continued to work with teachers on activities and ideas for their classrooms and even presented a workshop on a balanced literacy approach yesterday – the last day of the term – for the teachers and administrators of St. Luke! It was a great workshop that gave teachers time to practice planning a day following the balanced literacy block plan using library books as a major resource! Anthony really deserves all the credit for coordinating the workshop and the plan of the sessions since he spent several days putting all the materials and 
ideas together. It was a lot of fun to work together yet again on a workshop and our program manager, Austin, said he likes our tag-team style of presenting and was disappointed he was unable to attend this one. Anthony did yet another great job working with the teachers and modeling a lee bit of goofiness with his santa hat, opening joke, poem, and brainteaser. It was fun to work together yet again.
prepared for and took exams, we continued to work in each of our libraries. Ginnie’s is just beginning and Anthony’s is in a period of re-organization. Ginnie’s been very busy (with Anthony's assistance) cataloguing over 4000 books sent to Trinity in a donation coordinated by Mount Ida College and contributed to in large part by the students of South Elementary School in Hingham, as well as by her mom’s coworkers in South Carolina, and family and friends. The books are excellent and the children are so excited to have a library opening up in the next term. Right now, we are still in the midst of important aspects to the project – seeking funds for the shipping costs and for materials to add much needed shelves, chairs, and tables to the space. For now, all the books are organized into levels and we’ll do a modified check-out system where teachers and I pick out books for students to browse and select for use in class until we have a functional library where students can browse 
shelves. Throughout the cataloguing and organizing and labeling process, children come into the library and ask to look at books. They love having them and we are both so excited to have both school libraries really user-friendly and accessible to all teachers and students. We are both very grateful for the donations and for the time several high school students from Wesley College have put into helping with our organization projects. The students working at Trinity stamped and labeled over 2000 books with color-coded and alphabetized stickers – they were quite a huge help!
In addition to all these books, we’ve continued to work with teachers on activities and ideas for their classrooms and even presented a workshop on a balanced literacy approach yesterday – the last day of the term – for the teachers and administrators of St. Luke! It was a great workshop that gave teachers time to practice planning a day following the balanced literacy block plan using library books as a major resource! Anthony really deserves all the credit for coordinating the workshop and the plan of the sessions since he spent several days putting all the materials and 
ideas together. It was a lot of fun to work together yet again on a workshop and our program manager, Austin, said he likes our tag-team style of presenting and was disappointed he was unable to attend this one. Anthony did yet another great job working with the teachers and modeling a lee bit of goofiness with his santa hat, opening joke, poem, and brainteaser. It was fun to work together yet again. Teachers participating in our activities
Later that evening, we each joined our school staffs for the annual staff outing. Trinity went to Old Belize and St. Luke went to Bird’s Isle. We enjoyed a fun night with the teachers, school wardens, and principals, and had great meals with lots of laughs. Ant’s party even had a dance-off - those ladies at St. Luke love to dance fi true! It was a fun way to close the term and kick-off vacation!
The staff of TMS - and, yes, we are wearing jackets because it is cold! (It dropped into the mid-50's last night, that's cold for us now) Oh, and one of these days Anthony will find a way to round up all 30 people so he can get a staff picture, too!
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