Welcome, Miss Bouffard!

If you are around the library and in our school, maybe you will see Miss Rachael Bouffard, a library practicum student from URI-GSLIS (URI - Graduate School of Library and Information Science). The students are getting to know her and she will be spending more and more time doing lessons with them during her 5-6 weeks in our school. Then she will be off to a practicum at the secondary level, but let's not go that far ahead right now!

Miss Bouffard began Monday and has already read to a kindergarten class, co-taught an online catalog lesson with me, and will be doing even more tomorrow. It's great to have someone with fresh ideas and a good approach to digital technology. As any teacher will tell you, being a mentoring teacher is a tremendous learning experience for both mentor and student teacher. I'm looking forward to the next several weeks.


This second photo shows Miss Bouffard sharing a book, Snow Lion, by David McPhail. Mrs. Terluk's afternoon kindergarten students are great listeners. It's obvious that everyone, teacher and students, was really enjoying the read-aloud!