LIBRARY

Assets

The Janet Rigely Memorial Library at Saint Ann School has more than 12,000 books on its shelves, fiction, non-fiction, reference and just about any other type of material found in your local neighborhood library.

Goals

Our goal is to familiarize our students with the use of the library and its resources while fostering a love of reading.

Curriculum

All of the classes visit the library weekly. The students may borrow books and videos with the promise to return them within the allotted time limit. Each student is encouraged to take out books that interest them.

Grades K-5 learn the basic functions of the library through the use of workbooks designed to teach them about the care of books, the Dewey decimal system and the use of the card catalog system.

Grades 6-8 will work on a school newspaper. All students will have the opportunity to contribute in a way they feel most comfortable, writing news articles about school activities, interviewing teachers and our new specialists, drawing, creating comic strips, book reviews or poetry. Teachers will be able to augment a lesson from the classroom, linking it to library time activities that they wish the students to complete.

Significant Projects

Our most significant project is to "jumpstart" the students on all types of reading adventures. Whether it is reading a story by flashlight, having a puppet read a book or making up our own stories, the idea is to make reading fun and exciting.

Dawn-Marie Streeter
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