Martha Mead Elementary School librarian, Kimberly Lucero, found a unique way to get 5^th grade ESL (English as a Second Language) students involved in introducing the new Online Public Access Catalog called iBistro.  Kimberly says that she loves to make up songs and chants and that the students respond to them quite well.  So, it was no problem at all to get student volunteers to come in the library early in the morning and during recess to video-tape a segment to be broadcast over the morning announcements. 

Mrs. Lucero has been the librarian since Mead Elementary opened its doors two years ago.  The campus supports Bilingual and Title I programs, as well as an ESL program for students from 31 different cultures!  One of the actors in the video moved back to his home in Nigeria a week after the taping was finished, but he, like the other student actors, received a CD copy of the video as a special remembrance.

You can view the video hosted at TeacherTube by clicking on the link below.

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