Over the course of my fairly brief (10 years in June!) career as an elementary school media specialist, I've come up with several new words that, I think, should be placed in Webster's Dictionary (elementary version). They are as follows:
BABBLEANCHE: The phenomenon a teacher/librarian experiences when a single kindergartner starts to tell a story about their life, which is followed four seconds later by eleven or twelve OTHER kindergartners all telling THEIR stories at the exact same time.
WORRICANE: When a teacher/librarian is awakened at three in the morning by some big worrisome concern (be it lesson plan, lack of budget, parent/teacher conference) which, much like a breeze that gets churned into gale force winds, leads to another worry...and another...and another....
and my NEW favorite...
SPAMMING THE LIBRARY: slang for "weeding the collection". Just as spam e-mails get in the way of reading the ones we actually want to read, outdated and unpopular books surround the "good stuff" that students actually want. By "spamming" the shelves, only the "good stuff" is left!
If I come up with any more, I'll pass them on. Who knows...maybe the "dictionary people" are checking blogs for new entries...!!!!
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