Welcome Back SMS Teachers
I am excited to work with you during the 18-19 school year!
Welcome Back!
- This year I will be working to gentrify the Fiction area so if students need service hours, please have them see me.
- We have some new additions to our maker space including some resources to make Virtual Reality and a 360 camera. We also have our Breakout Edu Box, Bloxels, lots more Legos and more arts and craft supplies. Please feel free to talk with me about ways we can incorporate the maker space and its items into your curriculum.
- The students will now be using Destiny Discovery as their first stop for research. When students put in a search term on the front page of the library website it will search all of our databases, books, and select online resources for them. If you have a project coming up and want a list of website curated for them I can now have the web pages also appear in the search results. No longer will students have to go to multiple places to do research! I will be teaching kids about these new features throughout the year so please bring them up to the library before the start of a research assignment so that I can point them in the right direction.
- We have added a number of new flexible seating options for students. A number of teachers took advantage of the library as a place where students could read and complete projects in a more flexible work environment. Feel free to sign up to use the library as a flexible relaxed space for your students to work.
Signing up for the Library:
If you would like to sign up to use the library their are two ways for you to do so.
- Call or email me and I will sign you up.
- Use the following link
Just follow the rest of the steps to complete the process. If you have any questions feel free to call or email me.
I do ask that prior to sending students to the library that you call to make sure that I am in the library. There are times that I am asked to cover classes and or working with students in a classroom and are not in the library.
Ways I can help you!
Remember, the Library Has Tons of Resources for Your Classes
Check out all the resources on our library webpage!
Summer Reading Friday Coming Soon! All Books Due Sept 17th
Please also remind all students that any library books they borrowed for summer reading are due Sep. 17th! I will soon be providing English teachers with a list of students who have participated in summer reading and the prizes that they earned.
Contact Info
Email: emalespina@somervilleschools.org
Website: http://somervillemslib.weebly.com/
Location: 51 West Cliff Street, Somerville, NJ, USA
Phone: 908-218-4107
Twitter: @elissamalespina