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A Fair(y) Use Tale: Copyright Law »

Questions for week #1:

What is copyright?
Who has the right to use copyrighted works?

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January 12: This Week @ the Library »

Kindergarten students meet our Library Shelf Elf who will teach them to select books from the shelf and take care of their library books.

First Grade students listen to a story about our favorite pig, Olivia!

Second Grade students share favorite books and learn to take Accelerated Reader Quizzes!
 
Third through Fifth Graders celebrate their progress as readers [...]

January 5 This Week @ the Library »

AR Store. The AR store will be held on Thursday and Friday, January 8th and 9th. The schedule is printed below. Each class has only 20 minutes to shop, so please be on time. Student point slips will be in your mailboxes on Monday. Please let students know that the slips were printed on the [...]

November 10, 2008 Upcoming Events @ the Library »

The library will be hosting the following events in November:

RIF (Reading is FUNdamental), November 17 – 24. K-6th grade students will come to the library during their regular library times and instead of checking out a library book, they will get to choose a book to keep! RIF is sponsored by Federal Grants and by our [...]

November 3, 2008: This Week @ the Library »

Kindergarten Students will be reading stories about funny farm animals.  They will use the Smart Board to create classroom graphs about their favorite farm animals.
 
First Graders will read As the Roadrunner Runs and learn about making maps.
 
Second Graders will read The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds and will be able to talk about the setting, [...]

Upcoming Events @ the Library »

The library will be hosting the following events in October and November:

Accelerated Reader Store, October 23-24. Third through Sixth Graders will be able to come in and spend the points they have earned with their Reading Practice. Students have the choice to spend or save their points. We will have books, school supplies, sports equipment, [...]

Read for the Record! »

We are pleased to announce that almost every classroom participated in Read for the Record on October 2 for a grand total of 941 Falcons hearing the story of Corduroy!  Throughout the country, over 400,000 children heard the story of Corduroy with an adult who shared it with them. Click on the link below to [...]

September 29, 2008: This Week @ the Library »

This week holds several events that focus on Early Literacy. Staff, Students, Parents and Volunteers will all be working to support literacy efforts that begin early in a child’s life.

September 30: Preschool Story Day @ Washington Library. We welcome our youngest students to the library to celebrate our love of our Teddy Bears!
September 30: Kindergarten Reading [...]

This Week @ the Library September 22, 2008 »

Mark your calendars for October 2: Read for the Record. For more information about Read for the Record and how your class can help support Preschool Literacy visit the Read for the Record page on this Website.
Kindergarten Students read about Families and talk about their favorite things to do with thier families.
First Graders and Second [...]

This Week @ the Library! September 2, 2008 »

Kindergarten students begin to check out their first library book. They share one of Ms. Armbruster’s favorite stories, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. They share their own wild things with Mrs. Yancy and Ms. Armbruster.

First Graders learn how to pick books from the shelf with the help of our very own shelf [...]