LIBRARY
Our Library has been transformed! Brightly colored shelves and a beautiful mural drawn by Warren Reeson have been added to our Library. We have a grant from Indigo and lots of changes will be happening in our Library. Please drop by!
Prince Street School Library Resource Center is an important learning environment where students, teachers, and teacher-librarian work together on activities directly related to the curriculum being followed in classrooms.
Reading Club (See link)
Open Book Exchange - everyday from 8:25 - 9:00
Regular Library Periods - Grades one, two and three come to the library once every 6 day cycle to listen to a story, learn library skills, and exchange books.
Resource-based learning projects - classes come at various times during the year, either in small groups or as a whole, to work on research projects, author studies, novel studies, internet activities, learning stations, etc... .
Book Fairs - twice a year.
This is a student-centered approach that focuses on students using a wide variety of books, electronic and human resources.
Students learn how to access, interpret, evaluate, organize, select, produce and communicate using a variety of texts, media and technologies.
The information process involves:
Planning for the process
Gathering the information
Interacting with information
Organizing information
Creating new information
Sharing the information
Evaluating the process
The school library resource center offers a variety of resources for both student and teacher use.
Books - easy reading, fiction, and nonfiction
Encyclopedias - bound and electronic
Dictionaries
Atlases
CD-ROMs
Videos, filmstrips and tapes
Microcat Search computers
Nine networked computers that have Internet access
