RES Library Media Center News

The library is a great space to come find a good book to read or to help answer some of your burning questions.  But the library also extends beyond the border of its walls to help with these quests by offering a variety of digital resources.  I'm excited to tell you about two new ones and to give a shout out to the ones we already know and love. New to our school: JLG Digital  is a book streaming service provided by Junior Library Guild.  Each month a new set of books expertly selected for elementary students will arrive on our platform.  The collection fits a diverse range of needs and interests.   It's like Netflix, but for books!   Students and teachers can click on the link from our  library website  to start reading.  If students want to continue reading a book at another time, they just need to login with their username and password (firstname.lastname, books123).  But other than that, no password is required...

Here is a snapshot sampling of students enjoying choice time.  Students can choose an activity after they have completed their book shopping.  Students can choose to color, do puzzles, play games, listen to audiobooks, or snuggle with a reading buddy while looking at their books.  It's great to see students interact with each other and reading in such a engaging way.

Hello Richmond Elementary School Community!  I'm excited to start the school year as your new school librarian.  I've created a short video to introduce myself.  Thank you so much for the warm welcome to start my year! :) Link to video:  https://spark.adobe.com/video/1zmmm2tzsXHdx

February 2018 at the RES library, by the numbers: Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff: 1233 -- that's 77 per day in our three weeks of school this month Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to: 146 Number of scholar visits to the library: over 600 (14 classes per week plus additional class visits plus individual visits) Number of times scholars used the PebbleGo nonfiction research database: 130

Blog posts are done! You can see them at the  RES Second Grade Animal blog . Second graders at RES have just completed a nonfiction writing and blogging unit. This is a collaborative unit taught by the second grade teachers and Beth Redford, our library media specialist. First, second graders chose interesting animals, researched them in the PebbleGo online database, and wrote down facts to use in their blog posts. Second, the scholars used their notes to create informational writing pieces about their animals. Finally, the second graders used the Blogger iPad app to create posts for the RES Second Grade Animal blog . They typed in the great texts they had written, and then added photographs of their illustrations. We are very proud of all our second grade scholars!

Arctic Fox illustration from a second grader's blog post The first blog posts are up! You can see them at the  RES Second Grade Animal blog . Second graders at RES are working on a nonfiction writing and blogging unit. This is a collaborative unit taught by the second grade teachers and Beth Redford, our library media specialist. First, second graders chose interesting animals, researched them in the PebbleGo online database, and wrote down facts to use in their blog posts. Second, the scholars used their notes to create informational writing pieces about their animals. Finally, the second graders used the Blogger iPad app to create posts for the RES Second Grade Animal blog . They typed in the great texts they had written, and then added photographs of their illustrations. Seven posts are already up on the blog, and more posts will be coming in the next few weeks. We are very proud of all our second grade scholars!

second graders researching their favorite animals for an animal blogging project January 2018 at the RES library, by the numbers: Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff:  1708 --  that's  81 per day  in our five weeks of school this month Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to : 195 Number of scholar visits to the library:  over 800  (14 classes per week plus additional class visits plus individual visits) Number of times scholars used the PebbleGo nonfiction research database: 576 Number of second graders who began a blogging project about their favorite animals: 40 . Stay tuned for their blog posts about meerkats, hedgehogs, and more!

researching jaguars in second grade Second graders at RES have started working on a nonfiction writing and blogging unit. This is a collaborative unit taught by the second grade teachers and Beth Redford, our library media specialist. This week, second graders chose interesting animals, researched them in the PebbleGo online database, and wrote down facts to use in their blog posts. In the coming weeks the scholars will be using their notes to create informational writing pieces about their animals. Finally, the second graders will be using the Blogger iPad app to create posts for the RES Second Grade Animal blog. Stay tuned for more about this great project!

There's nothing like the joy of finding a great new book! December 2017 at the RES library, by the numbers: Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff:  1295 --  that's  81 per day  in our three weeks of school this month Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to : 255 Number of scholar visits to the library:  over 600  (14 classes per week plus additional class visits plus individual visits) Number of times scholars used the PebbleGo nonfiction research database: 169