It's Wednesday! What's happening in the AME Library?

It's national School Library Month--and yesterday was School Librarians' Day.  We were showered with cards and posters and food!

Thank you, staff and students of AME, for valuing and participating in your library program.  I wrote a blog post about the good things happening in our library, and was saddened by a comment from a teacher from Indiana.  She said her district was doing away with libraries and librarians, replacing the program with a traveling STEM teacher.  

Libraries and STEM should coexist; one does not replace the other.  Students need STEM instruction, but they also need access to a well-managed library collection, information literacy instruction, and curricular support.  Did you know that we have over 20,000 items in our campus collection?  A classroom library is essential, but can't replace the scope of materials we can offer in our school library.

This month, we celebrate our district's commitment to maintaining school libraries and staffing them with certified teacher librarians, knowing that isn't the operating standard elsewhere.

Read-aloud and lessons this week:

PreK is starting their animal unit in class, so we are reading Creature Features, focusing on the mammals in the book.

Kindergarten through fifth grades are adding more stickers and reading responses to their reading journals, courtesy of the funds received through the Partners in Education program!

See you in the stacks, Dillo Readers!  Enjoy your long weekend.