"Book it" to the library

It's been a great first week in the library...

We have such eager readers at Freedom Academy. Many, many students come to the library multiple times a week. Sometimes I don't even stamp their books with a due date... I know they will be back in a day or two looking for the next "great read."

Because we are now on an A/B schedule, I have two groups of library aids. Pictured here are the B- day assistants...

Thomas Won, Victoria Shelley, and Madison Johnson

THEY ARE FUN!

Without them I would be literally buried under a very large pile of books that needed to be shelved.

Heading into Fall

It's the best time of year. In these last days of August the weather has cooled slightly and oh, those delicious thunderstorms.

It's been fun to be back in school and to see all the familiar faces and a few new ones. Freedom Academy is a great place!

We start our regular library schedule on Monday. I'm anxious to show you all our new books and to tell you about our upcoming programs. Click on the link to the right titled...

"Mystery Night in the Library" It's going to be fun.

Miss Ahlstrom's class visits the library on the first day of school

Miss Ahlstrom's adorable, eager readers!

Update on our mural in the library....

I just received this picture from our mural artist Brian Bird. He has sculpted the characters and photographed them so he has something to paint from. The next step is to finish a full color painting for the T- shirts and then on to the actual mural.

HOW EXCITING!

Welcome back to School... August 18, 2010

The Library is open so please... come in and pick out a book!

We have over 100 new titles.

We Won

THE FREEDOM ACADEMY EAGLES...

Swooped down on the Provo City Library Summer Reading Program

We perused the shelves. We checked out books.
We read, and read, and read.
We turned in our logs and attended the pool party.

And today August 2, 2010
Provo City Library announced...

WE WON!

Congratulations seems insufficient. You're amazing.

Stop by our library and see our gigantic trophy,

our huge basket of new books, and
prepare yourself for a party.

(Compliments of Provo City Library)

The Provo City Library Summer Reading Program officially ends tomorrow. If you haven't turned in your reading log please hurry in and give it to one of the librarians. We are neck and neck in the running with Wasatch Elementary but we won't have the final tally until Monday.

I hope you are all having a fabulous summer. Just 19 more days and school starts. I'm excited to see you.

Miss Merriweather

Have a wonderful summer. See you in the fall.

Storyboarding ...

Storyboarding has been a fun, fun thing in the library. In order to make it happen I have to have two paperback copies of each book title. Then... I take them both apart. I sever the spine, remove the stables and cut out each page. On occation, someone will walk through the work room and gasp. "How could you cut up a book" I just invite them up to see the finished poduct.

One glance lets you see the entire story. Books that are often neglected or passed over are front and center and read in minutes. It's fun to watch students go from board to board, nose to page, completely absorbed in reading.

Meet my amazing library aides...

My first year as librarian I had three aides. Last year I had one. This year... I was on my own. The thought of shelving all the books, checking all 675 students in and out and managing the whole program by myself was a little daunting. So...

Plan A

Meet my four student aides, Tim Muir, Cedrick Vargas, Kelee Snyder, and Autumn Covington. They have worked hard all year shelving books, sorting and delivery all of the "mail" running errands and keeping the library clean. They are beyond fabulous. I will miss all four of them!

Plan B

Teresa Christensen, Alice Clark, Veronica Cortez and Robyn Gordon took turns, as parent volunteers, coming to the library every day at 8:00 am They made it possible for us to be able to open our doors first thing in the morning. Most days we averaged 35 to 40 students and it took both of us moving as fast as we could to get them all checked in and out by 9:45 Shaunna George helped on Wednesday afternoons. Ever pleasant and willing she kept the library in order mid-week.
What's the old saying? "Many hands make light work" I so appreciate them all.
Miss Merriweather

The last week of school

It's the last week of school and time to wrap up the library. I'm down to six overdue books and I'm confident they will come sailing in before Field Day.

Last Spring we tore the library apart and put wheels on the three bookshelves in the center of the room. It has made a huge difference in our ability to hold events and accomodate large groups of people. There's just one small drawback... the wheels really couldn't bear the weight of the hardback books in the non fiction section. So... today we are clearing the shelves again and replacing all the wheels with bigger and better ones.

I owe a huge thank you to Mr. Hurst for doing all of this and to both Mr. Bichsel and Mr. Hurst who have, this year, moved the shelves too many times to count.!

Miss Merriweather

Summer Reading

Register for the Summer Reading program at the
Provo City Library

Registration is May 29th in the Ballroom

Fancy Nancy Tea Party

A party "Extraordinaire"

It's been a couple of weeks since our Fancy Nancy Tea Party. But, since I've just started this blog, I will say a little about it. It was FUN! We had 115 moms and daughters in attendance all dressed to the "nines" Who knew Mrs. Garlock and Mrs. Croshaw could transform themselves into Etheleen and Effie Mae. And who knew they knew so much about manners.

Mrs. Washburn and Mrs. Walters were over the top and brought us up to date on all our fancy words. We ate fancy food and sipped from our fancy tea cups. We played "Packing for Paris" made one of a kind "fancy bracelets" and listened to the story Princess Bess Gets Dressed.

A good time was had by all.

A special thank you goes to Mrs. McGinn, Mrs. Burke and Mrs. Carroll. This party would not have been possible without their "fancy help"

Click on the Fancy Nancy link to see all the pictures.

http://libraryfa.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Library in Central Park

This beautiful old building started out as a milk house. People would come into Central Park from New York City to get fresh milk. Later it was transformed into a library. What an amazing place.