Thank you!

I would like to thank our wonderful students, parents, and staff for their support at our recent fall book fair.  We were able to purchase a number of books from the fair for the library.  Additionally with the profit from our fair, we will have monies available for the purchase of library supplies, books, eBooks, and equipment.  Our family reading night was also a success!  Thanks to everyone for came and enjoyed bedtime stories read by our teachers.

Book Fair Arrives Soon!

Our annual fall book fair will be arriving soon!  This year, our book fair will be November 5 - November 9.  Our book fair is the largest fundraiser for our library media center.  With the book fair profits, our library can purchase supplies such as book tape, glue, bookmarks, and library folders, new library-bound books, eBooks, and hardware such as LCD projectors, document cameras, etc.  To have a successful fair, we need at least four parent volunteers work session per day.  Sessions run from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM and from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM.  Parent volunteers act as cashiers and help our students make smart choices and stay within their book fair budgets.  All parent volunteers will receive a $5 credit toward their book fair purchases as a thank you for their service.  Please consider volunteering our library media center at the book fair!

Teen Read Week

Teen Read Week

Here are highlights from our Teen Read Week's Classic Horror Movie Night ~ what great cupcake creations our students made!

Library Media Center Happenings

This week in the LMC, kindergarten students will learn procedures for checking out books.  Kindergarten students may choose one book for check out.  Book selections will be kept in the teacher's room during the week.  Second grade students will begin a unit on bats.  To begin, students will complete a Know, Want to Know, and Learn (KWL) chart on bats.  Bats by Gail Gibbons will be read.  Eighth grade students will be introduced to fall reading events such as the Book Camp promotion, Teen Read Week, and the new online book club through the website, Good Reads.  Third, fourth, and fifth grade students will have library orientation.

Library Media Center Opens This Week

After a one week delay, our library media center will open on Monday, September 10 for student check out.  Our staff is very excited about having our students in to check out books and audiobooks.  Kindergarten students will learn class procedures and have story time on Monday.  Our story this week is Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book by Alexander Stadler.  On Tuesday, second grade students will have a procedures slide show, learn about our "Book camp:  Train Your Brain" reading promotion, and have The Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen read to them.  Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday will bring STAR Reading Testing to our students. 

The First Two Weeks of School

For the next two weeks, our library staff will be busy preparing to serve our students.  Huntsville City Schools' library media specialists have been tasked with cataloging and checking out student laptops and iPads.  I am very excited about our new one-to-one program and am working to get the appropriate hardware out to your student.  Additionally, I will be working to roster new students into the Pearson Learnings online program.  Our library staff will also work to provide each Providence student with their library ID (for PK and K), their library folder (for 1st through 5th grades), and their library card (for 8th grade).  This involves printing barcodes for each student and attaching them to the appropriate vehicle, so students can check library books out in an efficient manner.  Our goal is that student check out will begin September 4th.  In the meantime, teachers will be able to check out class sets of books for your student's use.  We are very much looking forward to seeing your student in our library media center!

Library Media Center Blog

Welcome to the Providence School Library Media Center blog.  The purpose of this blog is to inform students, teachers, and parents of upcoming events and lessons taking place in our library media center.  As library media specialist, I would love to hear from each of you regarding our library program.

Did you know our library media provides online access to all the books in our library?  Accessing the library's online patron access catalog (OPAC) is possible anywhere you have internet access:  school, home, even on your mobile phone!  To access the catalog, go to the Huntsville City Schools' website and click on the green Student tab.  Look for the link labeled Atriuum Students.  Next, select Providence School from the OPAC list.  The online catalog should open automatically.