RES Library Media Center News

 The NEW picture book section is complete!!  I'm very excited to present our new organization system for picture books.  I hope that it will make picture books more accessible to students and helpful for teachers and community members.  Picture books are already circulating more than before!! The picture books are now organized based on topic rather than author's last name.   The topics have been grouped together based on similar topics with a color code.  So a book's call number will include the color bin it will be found in to help narrow your search in the stacks.  An example is P Purple Funny.   The P stands for Picture Book.  The Purple stands for the color label/bin.  Funny is the specific bin to look in. There are colorful labels on the shelves to help direct you to the right spot!  The reason behind this new organization is mainly to help young learners.  Kids don't care who wrote their favorite books, they care what it is about.  There are many kids who ask

  We want to be in a learning community where… The classroom environment is quiet, calm, clean, fun, safe, peaceful, comfortable, organized, and playful.  I am happy, nice, safe, having fun, calm, sitting, focused on work, solving problems, helpful, kind, listening, playing, and making friends. Our classmates are nice, kind, quiet, fun, helpful, focused on their work, flexible, safe, calm, playing, and using their manners. Our teachers are helpful, kind, nice, fun, calm, polite, trustworthy, joining the fun, engaging, patient, and funny.

  Good afternoon almost 5th graders!  Good afternoon family, friends, teachers, and well wishers.   We are here today to celebrate the growth and accomplishments of these fine students.  And it has been an honor to teach them for the past couple of years.  This group of kids will always be near and dear to my heart because we went through two and half years of covid together.  And they have shown such resilience, empathy, and grace, far more than most adults that I know. I appreciate my time with them and look forward to what they will do in the future.   Well, my darlings, you are about to head into middle school.  And with any change, it comes with excitement and anxiety.  This change might be wonderful or it might be a challenge, or most likely a little bit of both.  But I assure you that you have the tools to navigate this change with the same resilience, empathy, and grace you have shown during our covid years.   The proof is right here.  This is our speaking stone.  It was first

The library has gone through a transformation.  And as there are quite a few new folx in the building, I wanted to give a little tour of the library and share what the library has to offer to support you in your work.  Space Catalog Use our library catalog to look for the books you need.  Check to see if the book is available and then use its call number to locate it in the library.  The first part of a call number tells you what section in the library to look.  The second part tells you what shelf.  The map can help with finding what section is which.  If you would like more guidance on how to use the catalog, please let me know and I will happily teach you.  You can also reserve library books from the catalog.  Watch this video to find out how.   Resources The library offers lots of resources beyond books.  From the library website, you can access a variety of digital research tools, eBooks, and audiobooks.  Look at the different colored tabs to find what you are looking for.  I wil

 So excited to announce this year's award winners for the Vermont book awards.  RES students had a lot of fun and learned a lot with this year's list of nominees.   The winner of the Red Clover Award is Crab Cake by Andrea Tsurumi!   Here are the numbers for how students at RES voted as well as the votes cast from the whole state: And now for the results of the Golden Dome Award.  This year's winner is... This is how students at RES voted: Here is how all the students in Vermont voted:

  Introducing Tales2Go Our school now has access to even more audiobooks! This is an audiobook collection hosted in the cloud making it available to you from anywhere.  Listen on your chromebook.  Add the app to your tablets and iPods.  Explore the hundreds of quality, high interest audiobooks and listen away!  I'm excited to listen to Wings of Fire, Dragon Masters, & Oddmire: The Unready Queen!  There are also many of our VT Middle Grade Book award books available like The Dark Lord Clementine & The Last Human.  And don't worry, there are plenty of audio picture books available too like Be You! by Peter Reynolds and Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett.  The best part is that these books are always available.  You don't need to wait for another user to return it! To access your Tales2Go , visit the library website .  Click on the green tab "eBooks, Audiobooks, and More!"  Scroll down until you find the Tales2Go logo.  To login you will select "schools & stu