It's a New Year!

Welcome back to school to all faculty, staff, and students.

The summer flew by quickly, but I am ready to get back into a routine. This new school year, the Lower School library is focusing on further developing and fine-tuning our collection, collaborating more with teachers, and I am trying to decide on an after school club.

Our theme this year in Lower School is bowling! Who doesn't love a fun bowling game? We thought it would be great to use all the bowling terms and, for lack of a better term, puns when creating our reading incentive program. Students will read ten books for a strike, and after they fill out our awesome tracking sheet, are eligible to have their sheet hung on the wall along with their picture!

There is another bulletin board on the same wall but its at least three times as big. This is where we have our student recommendations. They write it on a bowling ball, which we then staple to the lane. We had to cut down on how fancy we were trying to make the lane look. There will be so many recommendations on the board that it won't matter.

One of the new challenges this year will be late start day. We will have a different grade for two-ish hours on a late start day. Carrie and I are researching storytellers, but we also have some cute activities found on Pinterest that we are excited to try.

We are also the lucky recipients of a classroom set of iPads! This is so exciting, as Carrie and I have both been going to training the past couple years about iPads and how to utilize them in the classroom. Since we never had the opportunity before, we're looking forward to introducing our kids to this technology and hopefully using it in some cool ways.

This year will be challenging, but we are ready to bring our library game to the next level. Hopefully this year will be full of collaboration, revolutionary ideas, and more school participation in the library program.