We are looking forward to an exciting year with your children!  Pre-school students come once a week for story time and book check out.  Kindergarten and through 5th grade come once a week for a lesson and book check-out.  The library is available to middle school students daily for book check-out and reference/research needs.

Our goals for the students are:

• To develop a love for reading by sharing numerous works of quality children's literature.

• To give each student the necessary tools to successfully research a topic using all of the library resources.

To achieve these goals, the following objectives are developed for each grade level:

Kindergarten -

Understanding of sense of story, listening skills, car of books, and what an author, title, and illustrator are.

Grade One -

Above plus the ability to select books for check out independently, and a beginning understanding of the concepts of fiction and non-fiction.

Grade Two -

Above plus beginning reference skills, parts of a title page ,and the ability to read correct facts from informational books.

Grade Three -

Above plus understanding of the Dewey Decimal classification system, the ability to use this information to locate books from the card and/or electronic catalog, and use of dictionaries.

Grade Four -

Above plus use of atlases, almanacs and other reference sources.  Begin discussing the elements of specific genres.    Understanding parts of a book, glossary, index, and appendix.

Grade Five -

Above plus application of reference skills to specific research topics from content areas.  Exploring specific genres, such as mystery.

Grades 6-8 -

Above plus application of reference skills to specific topics fromall areas of curriculum.