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Mrs. Pelio, School Librarian

Library Hours: 8:30-3:00

“When in doubt, go to the library.” ― J.K. Rowling,

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

SUMMER READING 2021!

There are so many ways to participate in summer reading this summer - the most important thing is that you KEEP READING!

HAPPY SNOW DAY!

Feburary is Black History Month - I read "She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World" (link below) for todays read aloud. Included in the book were important Black Women who persisted such as Claudette Colvin, Harriet Tubman, Oprah Winfrey, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Ruby Bridges. After you watch the read aloud, do a little research on these important women and find a fun fact to share with your classamtes and Ms. O'Reilly when we get back to school!

https://youtu.be/pPid6W3iEeY

How to talk about what is going on today with your children:

Research from Harvard University suggests that children as young as three years old, when exposed to racism and prejudice, tend to embrace and accept it, even though they might not understand the feelings. By age 5, white children are strongly biased towards whiteness. To counter this bias, experts recommend acknowledging and naming race and racism with children as early and as often as possible. Children’s books are one of the most effective and practical tools for initiating these critical conversations; and they can also be used to model what it means to resist and dismantle oppression.​

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history. Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg’s collection became so big it began to overflow his house, he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world. Ages 9–12.

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