LIBRARY
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
