Checking Out the Book Bowl Books at Jepson

Brennan Posts Stats

Close up of Book Bowl book checkout tally.





Bulletin board outside the LMC at Brennan keeps track of Book Bowl checkouts.



Students can keep track of circulation statistics posted outside the door to the LMC.



Beth Hart Demos Flip Cams

Beth Hart demonstrates the use of a Flip cam, one of several purchased from a $5,000 donation from a 24-year-old electrical engineer Rima Ghosh, a Hooker alumna.

Hooker Students Use Laptops for Tapestry Unit Involving Primary Sources

Students return laptops after researching 1894 New Haven City Directory for a task involving the industrial revolution as it affected New Haven. Students create historically accurate profiles of New Haven citizens during that time period as part of a larger unit entitled the New Haven Tapestry Unit written by LMS Beth Hart. Access this source at http://distantcousin.com/Directories/CT/NewHaven/1894/.

Susan Sendroff's First Book Fair at Brennan

Yale Donates Books to Wexler Grant

Roseanne Castiglione goes through boxes containing 3,000 used books brought over from Yale to give to Wexler Grant students and their families. The giveaway started Wednesday, Nov. 18 (Report Card night) and included a little book shelf for each student.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Incentive Program at Fair Haven

Fair Haven Library Character Display

From Lynn Virtue: Fair Haven K-8 uses literacy to highlight character traits we want all of our students to emulate.  Each month, every K-6 classroom teacher receives a book that focuses on a selected character trait. Over the summer, I select 10 character traits and 2 books for each month - one for grades K-2 and one for grades 3-6. I provide each teacher with lesson plans and activities to support the character trait of the month.  At the end of the month, each teacher selects one student to come to the LMC for a Book Talk that I facilitate and for another group activity related to the book.

This month's character trait is generosity and the selected books were : The Can Man by Laura Williams and Mama Panyas Pancakes A Village Tale from Kenya by Mary Chamberlain.

 

 

Guess the Circ Desk

Guess which library media center features this very stimulating circulation desk.

Library Mouse at Fair Haven

Students in all first grade classes heard the story Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk. In the book, Sam constructed a tissue box with a hole in it and a mirror inside.  Above the box is a banner, held up with pencils that reads “Meet the Author” with an arrow pointing down. Mrs. Virtue created a replica for her students. Children in the book and all of the first grade students at Fair Haven found themselves staring into their own reflection when they leaned forward and looked in the box expecting to meet the author!! With the encouragement of Sam, the Library mouse, Students realized they all have an author within.  Students then wrote and illustrated their own mini books, just like the young library patrons in Library Mouse. 

East Rock's Principal's Fall Reading Challenge

Library Media Specialist Paula Daitzman and Literacy Coach Lynn Kelly created this reading incentive program. Each class in grades K-3 has a caterpillar head to which dots with students' names are added as they complete the challenge. Each circle represents five books per student.

Paula organized and ice cream social for the top readers. See the invitation by clicking here.

Gail Hall talks about Her Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board by Gail Hall Outside the LMC at Mauro Sheridan

Cat Urbain, author of Manuel and the Lobsterman, at Betsy Ross LMC in October