Lowell Library Newsletter
December 2021
Book Returns
The library collection is set to be packed up over winter break. Students' books are due back by Thursday, December 23, 2021. Books will be accepted after this date, so please return any Lowell Library books you find whenever you find them.
If you are having a library book issue, please feel free to reach out to me via email in case your book found a way back to the library.
What We Learned: November
Kindergarten and First Grade: We learned about:
- Parts of a book and identified the title, author, spine, cover, and pages.
- Learned what makes a fiction book fiction.
- A balance between media and other activities, friends, and family.
- Parts of a book: title, author, illustrator, spine, cover, pages, barcode, copyright date.
- How books are made from an idea to a finished book.
- Dewey Decimal System and how books are organized in a library.
- Changing text in Google Docs to modify font, size, color, highlight alignment, bold, Italics, underline
- Inserting an image electronically
Fourth Grade: Learned to:
- Identify private and personal information to determine what is safe to share online.
- Define the term digital footprint and identify online activities that contribute to their footprint.
- Define copyright
- Private information we should not share
- How websites gather information about us based on our online activity.
- Identifying ways companies use the information they gather about us.
- Ways we can minimize the amount of private data collected about us online.
Favorite Library Collections
Graphic Novels
Students read graphic novels. Our collection includes fiction and nonfiction and kids read them all, recommend them to their friends, and seek out new titles and authors they love while increasing visual literacy skills.
New Books
Graphic novels new to Lowell move fast and this shelf is always changing.
Did you know:
- Comic books average 53.5 rare words per thousand.
- Children's books average 30.9
- Adult books average 52.7
Nonfiction
Second Graders learned about library organization and found their favorite nonfiction title. We then organized our finds by Dewey hundreds and determined that second graders love books about science!
Please Return ANY Lowell Library Books You Find at Home!
- My child has a library book from before quarantine. What should I do with it? Please bring it back! There is no penalty for pre-quarantine books and I would love to have them back in the library so other kids can enjoy them.
- Will kids check out books after December? No, we will be storing our wonderful library until we return to Lowell in Fall 2023.
- Are we having a Lowell Book Fair this year? Yes! FTO arranged a fair for the week of December 13-17 in the library. Watch for details!
- My child lost/damaged their book. What should I do? First, please contact me to ensure the book is gone. Lost books sometimes magically reappear in the library. If the book is truly gone/ damaged a replacement copy is most appreciated so I can quickly and easily put the book back into circulation for other students to read. Lost/damaged books can also be paid for. Please let me know if this is a better option for you.
J.R.Lowell Library
Email: kelly.mccollum@watertown.k12.ma.us
Website: http://lowelllibrary.com
Location: 175 Orchard Street, Watertown, MA, USA
Phone: 617.926.7770
Twitter: @jrlowellreads