YOUR Media Center at A.B. Combs
What can WE do for YOU in 2015-2016?
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Open Circulation
When is open circulation?
8:00 am to 2:50 pm. This is the time in the library when Ms. Ray or Ms. Headley will be there to help and monitor. Students should report to class in the mornings FIRST, then ask to come to the library. Students CANNOT come to the library during dismissal.
How many students can be in the library from your class at one time?
4. We will provide 4 passes per classroom and all students need a pass to visit the library throughout the day. We would love to see teachers assign mornings for students to come for open circulation. We feel this would cut down on students who are coming every day and may not be reading the books they checked out.
Guidelines for what to check out?
If you want your students to check something particular out, let us know. We will encourage students to get one fiction and one nonfiction in grades 1-2 and a mix in grades 3-5, unless you let us know otherwise. If you have a student continually checking out too hard or too easy books, let us know and we will help them choose more appropriately!
Need books?
We are glad to pull books for you for a unit of study or for lessons. You can send an email to Ms. Ray and she will pull books for you. Please give us 24 hours to pull the books, but we understand that "book emergencies" arise and will always be willing to help!
Collaboration, Cooperation, and Synergy! Oh my!
We would love to collaborate and support your instruction in the classroom! We can work with the students to research and locate books for classroom projects. We can complete lessons as part of necessary learning for units in Science and Social Studies. We can instruct students on apps or programs you want to use in the classroom! We would love to work WITH you to help our students learn! Let us know what we can do for you!
Online Resources Available
NCWise Owl is available without a password from WCPSS locations. The password is needed for access from home. The other resources require the passwords listed below:
Discovery Ed www.discoveryeducation.com Username/Password is individualized
BrainPop www.brainpop.com Username: wccombs Password: brainpop
Culture Grams http://online.culturegrams.com Username: wake Password: wake
NetTrekker www.nettrekker.com Username: wccombs Password: wcpss
eWISE Research Model
In response to ongoing requests for a common system-wide approach, WCPSS Instructional Technology & Library Media Services has adopted eWISE as a learning process model for inquiry and research. We will be using this model in the library and hope to have all students using it in classrooms, too, by the end of the year!
You can find resources for using eWise on the ITLMS Google site here.
Nuestro Biblioteca es Su Biblioteca (Our Library is Your Library), but...
please let us know of your plans! We are better able to help you prepare the space and and let classroom teachers know where we will be holding class when you use the media center for special events! Thank you in advance!
Book Purchase Request
Are there books you need that we don't have in the library? Is there a project or topic that we need more resources to support? Fill out this Google Form to request that we purchase a book/books for the media center!