Library
LIBRARY
Kindergarten
Our school library media center embodies the school’s philosophy of implementing, developing, learning, enhancing, and promoting critical thinking skills, lifetime learning, and the basics of information literacy.
The library information skills program is an integral part of the total educational program, teaching students the basic processing skills necessary to connect them with information and ideas in all subject and interest areas. Development of these skills involves the collaborative efforts of the library media specialist, administrators, classroom teachers, technology coordinators, parents and students as active partners in the educational process, thus reinforcing the value of literacy and life-long learning.
Kindergarten students have two 40-minute library classes in the six-day cycle. With the start of school, the students are introduced to the proper behavior for a good library student. They then begin to learn how to care for books. Their favorite teacher is Leo the Library Mouse who usually hounds them for cheese but is able to impart his bookcare wisdom as well.
Once the students begin to borrow books they have one library session for borrowing and the other for many fun activities including listening to stories, singing, poetry, rhyming, acting, puppetry, and improvisation. All these activities help prepare the students for reading.
First Grade
Our school library media center embodies the school’s philosophy of implementing, developing, learning, enhancing, and promoting critical thinking skills, lifetime learning, and the basics of information literacy.
The library information skills program is an integral part of the total educational program, teaching students the basic processing skills necessary to connect them with information and ideas in all subject and interest areas. Development of these skills involves the collaborative efforts of the library media specialist, administrators, classroom teachers, technology coordinators, parents and students as active partners in the educational process, thus reinforcing the value of literacy and life-long learning.
First grade students have one 40-minute library session in the six-day cycle. Every library session for them is a time to return books and to borrow new ones. The library session is divided into two twenty-minute periods. The first part is a lesson the second part is for locating, signing out, and borrowing books and periodicals.
During the first part, the students have a library lesson. This will include library procedures, book care, parts of a book, fiction, non-fiction, biography, library vocabulary, puppetry, Readers Theater, folktales, stories, poetry, and author studies.
Second Grade
Our school library media center embodies the school’s philosophy of implementing, developing, learning, enhancing, and promoting critical thinking skills, lifetime learning, and the basics of information literacy.
The library information skills program is an integral part of the total educational program, teaching students the basic processing skills necessary to connect them with information and ideas in all subject and interest areas. Development of these skills involves the collaborative efforts of the library media specialist, administrators, classroom teachers, technology coordinators, parents and students as active partners in the educational process, thus reinforcing the value of literacy and life-long learning.
Second grade students have one 40-minute library session in the six-day cycle. Every library session for them is a time to return books and to borrow new ones. The library session is divided into two twenty-minute periods. The first part is a lesson the second part is for locating, signing out, and borrowing books and periodicals.
During the first part, the students have a library lesson. This will include library procedures, book care, parts of a book, fiction, non-fiction, biography, library vocabulary, puppetry, readers theater, folktales, stories, poetry, author studies, Dewey Decimal System, library configuration, and author/illustrator visits.