December and January
Library Report
Library Curriculum
December
- Bookmarks
- Love your Library Contest
- Writing Resources
- December Holidays
January
- Good Fit Books
- Nonfiction, Dewey Decimal System
- Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes
- Diorama Walk Through
Featured Databases: Gale
Gale has three different databases available on Utah's Online Library.
Gale Kids Infobits
Gale Research in Context 6-8 Grades
Gale Reference Collection 9-12
Ask the librarian if you would like the home access information. These databases provide resources that are credible and vetted on a wide variety of topics.
https://youtu.be/N4Y01JzTOZM
https://youtu.be/Po_xChuZGIc
Featured Social Media Site: Instagram
About Instagram:
Instagram is a photo app for phones that let's people share and edit photos with one another. You can find it in your phone app store You can use a hashtag # to search for what you're interested in. There are many bookstagrammars that share their pictures of books. Here are some book related hashtags you can look for:
- #kidlit
- #kidlitart
- #yalit
- #yabooks
- #bookshelf
- #booksofinstagram
- #bookstagram
Follow the school's instagram here:
The Jr. High library has begun one as well:
Elementary Library Statistics
Featured New titles
These are all titles that received starred reviews in book review journals that are new this year.
Fiction
5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior
3 Starred reviews graphic novel
School's First Day of School
7 starred reviews ALA Notable picture book
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
6 starred reviews Newberry Medal fiction book
Nonfiction
Her Right Foot
6 starred reviews A 2018 Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming
5 starred review poetry book
Ada Lovelace: Poet of Science
2 starred review ALA Notable Picture Book
Jr. High Library Statistics
Featured New Titles
These are titles that have been given starred reviews in book review journals that are new this year.
Fiction
Loving vs. Virginia
3 starred reviews verse novel
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures
4 starred reviews Pura Belpre Award & YALSA Nonfiction Finalist verse novel
Alls Faire in Middle School
3 starred reviews graphic novel
Nonfiction
Vincent and Theo: The Van Goghs
7 starred reviews YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro & the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
4 starred reviews YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction
First Flight Around the World
Starred review YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction