Van Arsdale's Library
Jeffco Story Tellers
Monthly students enjoy a visit from Mrs. Linda who is a Jeffco Story Teller with the Jeffco Public Library. She tells stories and explaines story elements to all grade levels.
Collection Development
The Collection has been updated and 90% of our collection conisits of titles newer than 2015. With the help of PTSA and Bitrthday Book Club, we have an up to date, diverse, and ever growing collection. In the past two years we have sent $12,000 on new books!
Book Fair
We hold the poition for the highest selling book fair of May 2023! We sold over $23,000 using the Scholastic Book Fair. Our 5th grade students run the Book Fair and choose which books we will bring into our collection.
Birthday Book Club
The PTSA and parents fund the Birthday Book Club. Each student gets to choose a book to donate to the library on their birthday. This adds a book or two to our collection each day!
Library Buddies
All classrooms have a partner classroom who they visit the library with. This offers a great time to expore the library and buddy read.
5th Grade Mountaineer
One of the most exciting projects for 5th graders is the Mountaineer News Broadcast. Students research, script write, act, edit, and produce the school news broadcast.
Jeffco Digital Tools
We LOVE Adobe Express in grades 2-5!! We have created amazing projects to include a tour of Tiny Houses we have built!
Jeffco Digital Tools
Book Creator is a fav favorite! This tool is used by all students in all grades.
Jeffco Digital Tools
We Video is used by 5th grade to create many assignments to unclude to monthly news broadcast.