SCHOOL CLASSROOMS

LIBRARY

School Library
Our library includes many fiction and non-fiction books of different genres.  Students use the books for research, classroom activities, and recreational reading.  Students in grades 3-8 serve as library aids during their library classes. They help maintain the library by assisting Mrs. Erich and Mrs. Ganas with shelving books and helping with other tasks which help keep our library up to date.

Library Classes
Students in grades K4 through eight attend weekly library classes. During these classes, library skills are practiced and children’s literature is read before students are given the opportunity to select their weekly reading books.  Students are exposed to various authors throughout the year.  These authors include Eric Carle, Frank Asch, Tomi DePaola, Ezra Jack Keats, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Students in the intermediate grades hear multicultural stories and folk tales from many different areas of the world.  The middle school stories include nonfiction selections as well as myths and excerpts from classic tales.

BOOKS
Our library includes many fiction and non-fiction books of different genres.  Students use the books for research, classroom activities, and recreational reading.  We are always  searching for the newest in children’s literature and current books in the math, science, and social studies areas.

CURRENT FAVORITES
Magic Tree House series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Junie B. Jones series
Diary of a Wimpy kid series
Middle school students have been choosing books by Lurlene McDaniel, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Scott Westerfield, and James Patterson
Nonfiction dinosaur books

ACCELERATED READING
 Students in grades two through eight are required to read books on our Accelerated Reading list as part of the self-selected reading component of their reading curriculum.  After reading a book, the student takes a computerized comprehension test.