SJE Library Learning Commons

In flight entertainment for the first of three flights home!

The last couple of days have been filled with beauty that you can’t get at home (but home is beautiful too!). James Bond Island, several temples, a Ninja Turtle (what?!?), a tea plantation and the Golden Triangle, where we were standing in Thailand but looking across the river at the countries of Laos and Myanmar. One more full day before the long trek home.

Ms. Sears is in Thailand! We’ve had so much fun and learned so much already. Here are just a few highlights.

What a year we've had in the media center! While we're blown away by the numbers, we are even more impressed and humbled by the way our students love the library space. Even if students complain that they don't like to read, they have to admit that it can be a fun place to be.

The Count says...look for your books! We still have 200 library books that need to be returned. Please check bookbags, home libraries, under the seat in your car (one like that was turned in today!). Thank you for everything!

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Once Upon A summer Reading HCS Elementary Video V3.mp4

We are excited to be once again partnering with Read with Malcolm and using the Beanstack platform to track our Summer Reading! Students will also receive paper reading logs, and those will be going home the week of May 26th.

In order to earn a Champ (8 books read) or MVP (12 books read) honor for the Read with Malcolm challenge, students who are logging their pages in Beanstack must both log pages and mark books as complete to ensure their reading is tracked correctly.

The challenge runs from June 5-Sept. 6. Enjoy your summer and HAPPY READING!

Well, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that our students checked out more than 34,000 books and logged more than 4.3 million pages read for the school year! We continue to be impressed by their love of reading and try so hard to bring in books that will keep them engaged.

Now for the bad news - it’s time to return all St. James Elementary library books for the summer (cue the crying…). Please have all library books returned by Wednesday, May 27, so we can ensure they find their homes on the shelf so the books can rest for next year!

We love, love, love our readers!

April was a busy month in the library! We celebrated National Poetry Month with acrostic poems and rhyming dominoes, National School Library month with notes about why our students love the library, designed a school and t-shirt after reading "If I Built a School" and just had some plain, old fun.