WELCOME students to our amazing Elementary Library…
This really is one of the best libraries you may ever enter… in the world. We have a huge collection for you, of over 30,000 titles, and our ES Library in Pudong is the smallest of the four libraries at Shanghai American School, which by the way, contains THE largest English book collection in ALL of China. So you will never have to say you can’t find something to read while you are a student at SAS.
Our technology resources are growing all the time; we currently have 60 kindles, 60 ipod nano’s and 11 ipads all loaded with books, (some kindles have over 150 books on them) so there is no shortage of new reading material available. If there is a book you want to read, and we don’t have it in our Pudong Elementary library, check destiny to see if we have it somewhere else, like Middle School, or Puxi Campus. If you can’t find it there, let me know and I’ll order it for next year, as well as buying on kindle, audio or ibooks if it is available.
Students, please return your library books AS you finish them; do not wait until your library day to return books. Please return your books to your classroom library basket, OR to the plastic tub that will be in the main hallway as you enter school in the morning, by the back library door. We are NOT allowing you into the library before school at all. You are allowed 14 days for each book checked out, and one library cycle for technology, however, if you finish early, please return your item.
Students, this year we are making a real effort to use shelf markers in the library. You must pick up a shelf marker as soon as my mini-lesson is over, you must keep it in your hand as you walk through the library, using it to mark the place where you choose books from the shelf. You are not allowed to check out your books unless you have your shelf marker in your hand to return to Ms Stella and Ms Joji.
VOICES OFF IN THE LOFT
Students, when you go upstairs to the reading loft, you need your shoes, and your voices OFF up there… remember it is for the students who just HAVE to read RIGHT NOW, and FINISH their AMAZING book… or they won’t be able to stand it!
My happy face when you are quiet in the loft…
Guidelines for Check Out
EVERY student in Elementary must check out at least ONE non-fiction book each check out period.
Pre K-1st Grade you are to check out up to 5 books at a time. We’d like you to always check out ONE non-fiction book (at least). You are also allowed to check out one magazine or one DVD too, as well as fiction books in the Primary Library.
Grade 2-Grade 5 students, you guys can have UNLIMITED check-out privileges; so use your common sense and make sure you don’t check out more books than you can read.
Grade 2-Grade 5 students, like I said, your check out is unlimited, within that, you can check out a maximum of:
1 Graphic Novel
2 DVD’s
3 Books in a Series
Digital Check-Out
We will begin checking out technology after September 14th long weekend.
IPAD’s – one per class for fourth and fifth grade. These Ipad’s don’t have games on them, and you cannot take photos on them. They are full of books in the ibooks app, there is something here for everyone and the Ipad is a great way to read, with lovely interface and print.
IPOD’S-are available for third-fifth grade students on a first come first serve basis with a maximum of FOUR being checked out per class. The Ipod’s don’t have games on them, and we don’t want you putting your own games or music on them, they are for you to use on the bus, and at home, and have over 100 books on them.
KINDLES-are available for third-fifth grade students on a first come first serve basis with a maximum of FOUR being checked out per class. The Kindles are divided into TEN different accounts, so you need to check the front windows in the library to see what each set of kindles have on them, for example, Kindle number ones may have the Hunger Games series, but Kindle number fives don’t. We update the kindles regularly, tell me what NEW books you would like and we will do our best to upload them for you.
Kindle Instructions are on video here
Lunch-Recess Time Library Visits
Monday and Wednesday-Grades 2 and 4 are allowed to check out in the library during their lunch recess time. If the day is too hot/wet/polluted you are welcome to stay and read. If the day is fine, we’ll send you out to play once you’ve checked out your books.
Tuesday and Thursday-Grades 3 and 5 are allowed to check out in the library during their lunch recess time. If the day is too hot/wet/polluted you are welcome to stay and read. If the day is fine, we’ll send you out to play once you’ve checked out your books.
I can’t wait to greet you all in the library, with over 2,000 new books, bringing our collection to over 30,000 items, there really is something in our library for everyone!
the barefoot librarian 