We have some exciting things in the LMC to help children learn. 

Mrs. Meyer is visiting classrooms 2nd grade through 8th grade every other week with a selection of books and shares a book talk with students and teachers.  The books that are shared are listed on a bookmark to enable students to remember the title of a book they may want to check out on their next visit to the LMC.  Students have responded to the booktalks with a positive rise in requests for titles shared.    On the back of the bookmark is a quest question for students to complete if they wish.  The quest is to help students recognize and use the many tools that we have available in the LMC such as internet, virtual library, dictionaries, and other print tools.  If a student completes the quest and hands it in to Mrs. Conner, they receive a small token treat.

A new item offered this fall through the vendors is the PlayAway.   This is a very popular item allowing students to listen to an audiobook on a small self-contained mp3 player.  Only the book is on the player and only the book can be loaded onto the player.  We have 11 titles at this time and all of them are in circulation with a waiting list in place.   Because of the cost of the item, students are required to have a parent signed permission slip to check out the PlayAways.

Our first major order of the school year  has been  received.  New books have been shared through the book talks.  A major part of the order was DVD’s of Bill Nye’s science series.  We had some of these titles on VHS tapes, but now we will have all of the titles on DVD.  Because of the size of the order, we will receive many DVD players for classrooms as well.  Students and teachers can look forward to some exciting learning adventures with the famous Bill Nye.