You are now entering the Loker Library Media Center - Welcome!
Mission Statement
The goal
of the Loker School Library Media Center is to support and grow our
students' love of reading and learning through a combination of
resources and activities throughout the year, designed to make them
competent and comfortable in a library setting. Our kindergarten children have weekly classes
of 30 minutes that focus on three main strands:
Information Literacy, Literature Appreciation and LifeLong Learning.
These strands are integrated with grade-level curriculums and
statewide standards as often as possible.
Staff
Elizabeth Bryant:
Library Media Specialist
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Special Events and Programs |
Library Media Curriculum |
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From Inside Wayland Public Schools: Loker Library Media Center Collection
From Outside Wayland Public Schools: Loker
Library Media Collection
SPECIAL EVENTS AND PROGRAMS
Gifts of
Knowledge
There is a
way to honor your teacher, or your birthday, or your friend or any
other special person or occasion in your life. It's
called Gift of Knowledge. You and your parent pick out a
book from our Gift of Knowledge collection to purchase and then give
back to the library. It sounds strange but there's a name for
it. It's called philanthropy and it's a time-honored way
to help a good cause - in this case, our library.
We put a special bookplate inside
the front cover with a message from you. You may decide to
honor your classroom teacher for the Holidays, or at the end of the
school year. Or, your parents may want to honor your birthday
or bar or bat mitzvah with a new book for the library. No
matter what the occasion, you get to be the first one to sign out the
book and we put a notice in the Newsletter of your gift. It's a
great idea because the whole school benefits.
Library
Volunteeers
Tell your
parents that we'd really like to have them work with us as library
volunteers. We need them to help us put the hundreds of books
that get signed out and returned each week back on the shelves.
Library volunteers usually work for two hours each week and they
usually try to be there when you and your class are in the
library. There are lots of other jobs they do for us like
laminating, covering books, doing book searches, etc. and we couldn't
get along without them. That's why we have a special Volunteer
Appreciation Tea each year in June in their honor.
Children's Book
Week
Ever since
the 1930, in the United States, we have been celebrating the work of
children's book authors and illustrators during one week in
November. Here in the library, we invite people from the
community to visit each library class as Guest Readers. Each
year, we have people from the school, fire, and police departments as
well as local artists and writers. Sometimes there is even a
retired teacher or two who join us!
Pizza Tales!
At the beginning of Children's
Book Week each year, the library and the PTO get together to put on a
special family event called "Pizza Tales!" As the name
suggests, it's all about eating pizza with our families and friends,
and listening to a professional storyteller that we have invited to
Loker School to entertain us. In the past we have had
storytellers who also do pantomime and stand-up comedy routines along
with performing all kinds of stories from heart. Pizza Tales!
rocks.
Read Across
America
If you,
like millions of children and adults all around the world, love Dr.
Seuss, you will look forward to the annual celebration of Dr. Seuss's
(a.k.a. Theodor Geisel) birthday in early March. In the
library, we have our own "Seuss-a-thon" all week, reading as many of
his books as we can. We make posters and write essays with our
own personal thoughts and memories about the great man and his
work. Even Loki gets into the Dr. Seuss spirit in his "cat in
the hat" hat!
Spring Author
Visit
For the past three years, we have
invited a "big-name" author to spend the day with us here at
Loker. We've hosted Andrew Clements (Frindle, School Story,
The Jacket,) Ashley Bryan (Ashley Bryan's ABC of African
American Poetry, Turtle Knows Your Name, The Book of African
Proverbs,) Douglas Florian (Laugheteria, Summersault,
Mammalia,)