The Books Miss You....so Does the Librarian

It is with a heavy heart that this librarian, like many others, had come to accept that our doors will remain closed for the rest of the school year. As much as I miss our lessons and conversations, I am happy that I have been able to complete some guest appearances during your class Zoom meetings.  It has brought me great joy to still remain in your education and reading! Until I see you again, keep reading and know that I love each and every one of you!

Don't forget to share what you are reading through our Library home page! Make a book talk in Flipgrid to share with the rest of our school!

1. Check out the library homepage for ebooks and resources 
2. Check our Library Google Classroom for our Lunch Aloud readings and for fun activities to do from home
3. If you took books home keep them safe and in a place to locate....we will let you know how we will be collecting these soon.
4. READ, READ, READ!
5. Mrs. Gherman and Mrs. Clark miss you!

Distance Learning

Distance Learning - Figuring it all Out

I hope this finds all of my patrons and their families doing well during this time of quarantine and social distancing. I pray each night for your safety and continued growth during our time away from each other. The positive side is that there are so many fun and different ways to learn new information during this time that you may not have used before! Take a virtual field trip, watch a science lesson on Facebook, watch a read aloud on Instagram, or learn to draw on YouTube. Wow! The choices you have while you are working from home; I hope you are all learning something new that you will be able to share with everyone when we are back together again!

Read, Read, Read while you are away! 

Use our Google Classroom and the many resources I have added to our library homepage to find books to read. Amazon audible is free for this time, find a book to listen to, maybe one that would have taken too long for you to read or one that you just couldn't wait to be able to read! Use Epic! and read our March Madness tournament books. I'll start adding the voting forms in on our Google Classroom. Enjoy watching famous people read stories as well.

Scholastic Home Base Virtual Book Fest

Join in on the fun with this virtual world of reading and games from some of your favorite books and authors! Read books online, play games, meet authors and submit your questions to them. This site is so cool even I had to join in on the fun! 

Library in a Different World

Library in a Different World

Library in a digital world is hard, and honestly not near as much fun. I miss all of my students and all of the books that spend their time circulating in and out of hand. I miss the discussions of what students liked about their books. I miss matching students up with books and hearing about how much they loved them! This time period we are in feels like it's from a movie and I keep praying the credits will begin to roll soon. I never imagined my first year as our librarian bringing about challenges like this, and like every other librarian on the planet I am trying to find my place and how I can still reach our students and faculty. 

Despite it all Librarians are like the postal service, we will do all in our power to make sure our patrons get what they need! Lunch-Aloud will still carry on through our Google Classroom so that the 3rd-5th graders can still enjoy our gathering for our readings. I do apologize if I get behind on these. Our days are wrapped in meetings with campus and district officials to make sure we are servicing our students at the highest level. I have also decided to post read-alouds of other books that may interest our younger students. They deserve to connect with the "library lady" as much as our older students.

There are tons of resources of activities out there and a multitude of read-alouds from the actual authors of books, don't forget to check these out. I am also currently working on STEM/Makerspace activities that you can break the day up with. Look for those to be posted to the library home site and the COVID19 parent page. 

Until we can see each other in person, keep reading, keep learning, and I wish you and your family health, happiness, and love! 



“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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