Circulation Information

Elizabeth Ide and Prairieview

How many? How long? How to renew? What are the fines?
Pre-school and kindergarten students may check out one item at a time.
1st and 2nd grade students may check out two items at a time.
3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students may check out three items at a time.
All books are due in two weeks.
Magazines at Prairieview are due in three days.

We ask all students to return materials as soon as they have finished with them and the vast majority of the materials come back early.
There are no fines for late books.
To renew an item, the student must have it in the I.M.C.
Lost or damaged materials that can no longer be used must be paid for.
Hardcover books are $18.00 and magazines are $3.00.

Please help your students to keep our materials away from small children, pets, and all food and drink. This includes what is in the back pack. Make sure food and drink containers are tightly sealed.
Thank you.

News from the IMC

Elizabeth Ide- Last spring, we were able to acquire a number of audio books from AVID to add to our small collection. We have been experimenting with circulating these special items. It turns out that our reading specialists can make the best use of them. Therefore we transferred the collection to the reading specialists' classroom. Of course, our regular classroom teachers are still welcome to use them, as needed. It turns out to be a win-win situation.

At Prairieview, the situation with the audio books is a little different. It seems to be more advantageous to make them available for student circulation. We have a nice display rack available (a gift from AVID) and it is easy to allow the students to browse through the collection. If they remain popular, we will try to update the collection. Many of the existing audio books come on cassette tapes. As time goes by, we will add more CD's.

I.M.C. News, November, 2007

Elizabeth Ide-We are very pleased with the response to the Math-a-Thon. Many students have brought back their permission slips to participate. They have been given a workbook or a CD to use for practicing their math as well as an envelope. After finishing the problems, students should collect pledges from their sponsors in check form made out to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Please return the checks and the prize preference form in the envelope and we will forward them to the hospital. Thank you for helping your children to practice their math and supporting this worthy cause.

Prairieview- In an attempt to encourage reading and keep our students excited about books, this year we have been displaying Authors and Their Books on one of our bulletin boards. This display is updated monthly and features an author who has several books in our collection. We plan to choose highly-regarded authors, authors in the news, and old favorites who may be new to our current students. After the excitement of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (the last in the Harry Potter series), our September author was J.K. Rowling. In October, we had Judy Blume and now we have Gary Paulsen, who was recently awarded the Chicago Tribune Young Adult Book Prize.

October 22, 2007 IMC News

At Elizabeth Ide this week we are introducing the Math-A-Thon. This is a fund raiser for the St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital and at the same time great math skill practice for our students. Each student will have take-home packet explaining the program.

At Prairiview, students are in the midst of our computer class. We are learning OpenOffice skills, including creating and editing documents. Fourth and fifth grade students will soon be creating slide presentations.

Recommended reading:

Books on the Monarch List -- K-3

Books on Rebecca Caudill List -- Grades 4-9