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Our library is located on the lower floor of Chaffey-Burke Elementary School. We have a variety of tables and comfortable couches where everyone can read, research, study and discuss books. Our librarian, Mrs. Huva, reads to primary kids, recommends the right book for us to read, helps students do research and literature circles. We also have a Red Cedar program. The Red Cedar program involves 2-3 students from each intermediate class who are chosen by their teacher Students meet with Mrs. Huva once a week to discuss novels and non-fiction books. They read 10 books and then vote for their favorite ones. We also have a Young Reader’s Choice program where Mrs. Huva book talks a variety of books to all intermediate students and they have to read two of them so they can vote in March. There are posters in the library of both the Red Cedar and Young Reader’s Choice Award Books.
Our library is always busy with students researching, individual students finding books to read, kids using the computers, students discussing a book they have read in a group, primary students listening to Mrs. Huva read and then signing out books. We have a simple library system. In our library books, there is a little card at the back where we write our name and division, then we put the card down the slot in the desk, get a due date card and put our division beside the due date. In the middle of the library is a catalogue that has a listing of books categorized by title/author or subject. We also have a computer behind Mrs. Huva’s desk, which has a program listing of all the new books in it by title/author or subject.
We also have students who work in the library as monitors. Students in Grade 4-7 can be library monitors. They work at lunch, stamping due date cards, stamping and sorting book cards, checking in returned books, writing overdues and delivering them, and guarding the library to help Mrs. Huva. Parent volunteers also help in the library: checking in returned books, returning them to the shelves, sorting book cards into the daily sorting drawer, putting data into the computer and processing new books. Our library would not work without the help of parent and student volunteers.
