Happy Vacation!!!

 See You in 2019!

We have made it! It has been a long but very productive month! We have had many classes, lots of studying, preschool reading, and visits from alumni! It is a super fun time of the year and we are so grateful for all the love, support and interest in the library!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Winter....

Preschool Popping With Penguins

There is a chill in the air! To prepare for the magic of winter we have created a winter wonderland for the preschoolers with our penguin display.  The littles were so excited to pick out their favorite penguins and loved the penguin books. While we are not completely ready for the onslaught of the cold temperature and snow, we are embracing it in the library!

 

 

Book of the Week

She Would Be King / Wayétu Moore
Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. 

Keeping Research Real

 Research is Rolling In

It has been so busy in the library with two major research projects under way. Both of these projects value the process of research and have a key focus on how to locate and analyze quality sources.

Junior: Annotated Bibliography Biology Project

Juniors in biology are beginning their year long research paper by choosing any topic of interest that connects to biology. The opening act of this paper is to create an annotated bibliography of sources they may or may not use for the end paper. It is amazing to see all the creative ideas the students research.

 

 

 

 

 

Senior: Social Action Research Plan Project

Seniors are embarking on their Social Action Research Plan. Again with a focus on the process not just the end result, students are asked to research a cause that has meaning to them. With that focus they create an action plan that a young adult could conceivably carry out. In the library our focus is to have seniors use the advanced feature of our database,s and based on their findings develop a plan. We focus on making sure they do not choose a plan and make the research fit their plan, but rather have a question and find sources they can then develop into their own idea and implement.

Book of the Week

Enter Title Here / Rahul Kanakia
In Rahul Kanakia's Enter Title Here, a perfect high-school student will do anything to get into Stanford. When she lands herself a literary agent, she finds the perfect university application hook. But she's convinced no one would want to read a novel about a study machine like her. To make herself a more relatable protagonist, she must start doing all the regular American girl stuff she normally ignores, like making friends and having a boyfriend. She even crafts a perfect sentimental ending, but even with a mastermind in charge, things can't always go as planned.