BookBytes

Here's what's happening @ EHUE Library

Q2, 2023-24

by M. E. Shenefiel, Librarian

sparking curiosity, creating connections, empowering learners

G.A.T.E. Think Tank Fridays

in collaboration with Mrs. Sovek and Mrs. Kopach

sparking curiosity

Think Tank Friday 2024

GATE students in all grades have been spending Fridays in the Think Tank working on independent or small group maker projects. They were given a choice of activities including Sphero (coding), origami, paper circuits, knitting (or crocheting), stop motion animation, or maker machines. After being introduced to all of the options the student had one day to tinker with their chosen activity. They then had to draft a plan for their project and learn the skills needed to complete their projects. Collaboration was encouraged. On showcase day the students shared their creations and reflected on their plan, their challenges, and their successes.

Check out a small sample of the projects created by our Eden Hall GATE students.

Stop-motion Animation

Claire's Project 2.mp4

Xmas story.mp4

StarWars StopMotion.mp4

Reading To Millie- Gift of Time

creating connections

Fourth grade student Lily R. won a PTO's gift of time raffle and was invited to read to Mrs. Shenefiel's dog, Millie. Lily invited her friend Tallulah H. to be her guest, and after school in December the students stayed to read to Millie. Millie and the girls played hide and seek in the library, ran some agility obstacles, and of course read together. Millie was captivated as Lily and Tallulah read Fancy Nancy: Ooh La La! It's Beauty Day by Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Lots of treats were had (by Millie) and a good time seemed to be had by all.

Student Library Volunteers

empowering learners

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What started out as two volunteers for a special project at the beginning of the 2023-24 school year has transformed into a dedicated team of student library volunteers. Most of the students are in sixth grade but there are a few fifth graders as well. When their schedule allows the students come to the library during Explore to help with tasks such as stratghtening shelves, reshelving books, and delivering book holds. The student volunteers also help with special projects like library displays, shifting books or processing new books. Mrs. Shenefiel hopes to expand the volunteer team by opening it up to more students and by offering formal training on the tasks.

New Resources:

New for Black History Month

All images and summaries from Destiny.

Small shoes, great strides : how three brave girls opened doors to school equality

By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ; illustrated by Alex Bostic.

Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost didn't set out to make history. But when these three Black first graders stepped into the all-white McDonogh No. 19 Public School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960, that's exactly what they did.

Coretta : the autobiography of Coretta Scott King

by Coretta Scott King with the Reverend Dr. Barbara Reynolds ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes.

This is the autobiography of Coretta Scott Kingt--he founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center), the wife of Martin Luther King Jr., and a singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist.

Standing in the need of prayer : a modern retelling of the classic spiritual

by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.

A stunning and deeply moving picture book based on the popular spiritual from an award-winning author and critically acclaimed illustrator. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle the milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American history.

Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

by Ibi Zoboi

From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose.

2023-24 Quarter 2

Library Stats at a Glance

Top 5 Titles

As determined by circulation statistics. Images from Destiny.