Another Year Over, Sort Of!

 July 1. A momentous day! It was the last day of a very tiring and exciting school year.

Accomplishments this year?

• Two very well-attended virtual library sleepover events (each was 4 zoom meetings over two evenings to accommodate all year groups). These were joint ventures with our sister campus here in Bangkok! 
• 1st Annual Shrewsbury Asia Poetry Competition! A little more challenging since we had to coordinate between two countries and three schools. Can't wait to see what the students submit next year! 
• Reorganization of Thai picture books into front facing baskets, and each basket labeled to match the books that belong in it.
• A start (with 24 custom made baskets) to doing front-facing English picture books.
• A weekly average of 22 EY1 and 17 EY2 students for garden story times!
• A very successful Fully Booked Week featuring real life and literary heroes.
• The most amazing Christmas zoom of stories and songs featuring David Biedryzcki reading two of his Christmas books!
• Two great student-written books being made for the library. Y3 (2nd graders) each wrote a story from the same story starter for one book, and Y5-6 (4th and 5th graders) wrote a joint mystery story. (And I never imagined an after-school group discussing ways that "grandpa died"...). Both books are creative and beyond my expectations! (Especially the mystery...the 11 students spent several sessions planning details in order to have a cohesive story.)
• Successful puppet show project with Y4 and Y5 students creating and making videos of their puppet shows to share with Y1 and Y2 students.

Of course, all of this is only possible because I have the most amazing team in the library. Mrs. Marivic does more than anyone could ever imagine. She is the Librarian (my official title is Director...very lofty sounding, I know.) I could not imagine trying to run these libraries without her. Then there are the library assistants. This group goes all out with enthusiasm for events, projects, displays, craft corner, and so much more! For them, the school term is not completely over since they are handling parents visiting the library by appointment this summer, inventory, processing new books as they arrive, and getting everything ready for next school year. This is an amazing team!!!! None of those accomplishments listed above would have been possible without them.