Pine Grove Elementary

Contact Information:

Pine Grove School

Library Media Center

150 Scoville Road, Avon, CT 06001

Ms. Jessie Shaw

shawjes@avon.k12.ct.us

Hours: 8:50 - 3:25

Library Office: (860) 404 - 4800

Destiny Program: http://destiny.avon.k12.ct.us:8081/

Welcome to the PGS Library

Our Mission Statement

Foster the love of reading and books in young children

Keep the collection appropriate, updated, interesting and useful

Teach library and information skills

Teach book respect and responsibility

Evaluate and select good resources for students and teachers

Organize those resources and systems of storing and retrieving

Constantly develop services to help people find what they are looking for

Create a warm, welcoming, comfortable environment for all who enter

Your child will have library once per week for checkouts, library/information skill lessons, class projects and stories

Among other things, they will learn the parts of a book, the responsibility and care. Please remind them to bring their books back - but let it be their responsibility to keep the book in a consistent and safe place at home and to put it in their own backpack every week.

Please check the barcode labels when you return books to make sure you are returning to the correct place. Books are occasionally returned to the public library—we check once a month or so and they eventually wind up back at Pine Grove. Children with overdue books may not check out until the books are returned. You are expected to pay for lost or damaged books so we can replace them. The librarian can give you an individual bill for anything you may have lost. If the book is later found and returned ( within the same school year) please notify us and a refund check will be sent to you from the business office.

Children are exposed to a variety of reading genre and authors. We encourage them to take out a variety of books on their reading level, both fiction an non-fiction, to expose and introduce them to as much as possible. They may have required reading from teachers and we help them select something that is manageable for them. There is a wonderful rule you can use at home in selecting a book for your child– the 5 finger rule. Have your child open to any page, start reading, and if there are more than five words they do not know or cannot read, the text is too difficult.

One of our jobs is to get the kids excited about reading and to help them learn to select a book for themselves in a reasonable amount of time. By 3rd grade they should know what they like, be able to search for a book on the computer catalog and locate it in the library on their own.

Skills taught to all grade levels:

Library Citizenship –proper care of books, respect for property

Responsibility for borrowing property and returning it in good condition

Respect the rights of others in the media center

Follow checkout procedure and library rules

Comfortable and respectful in library with staff and volunteers

Love of reading

Recognition of authors and illustrators

Awareness of award winning books and criteria

Pursue a request for specific material

Specific library skills appropriate for their age level

Information literacy skills - evaluation of resources

Locating information in appropriate resources

If you are interested in specific skills by grade level, please see the library media/ technology state curriculum link on home page.