Welcome to the Library at Wappingers Junior High School!
You may check out three books at one time (one fiction and two nonfiction, two fiction and one nonfiction, three fiction, or three nonfiction). Books are checked out to you for two weeks at a time.
No, you may not check out any additional books until the overdue book is returned to the library.
As long as another patron of the library does not need or want the book, you may renew it as many times as you need to complete your reading. Should there be a waiting list for the book, there will be no renewals honored.
Depending on your scheduling situation, you can come in a variety of ways.
Here is a sampling of what we can offer to students:
1) If you are currently scheduled in a study hall, your study hall teacher
will have a sign-up list provided to them each day. Available seats in the
library will depend on classes that have been scheduled, and the overall
school schedule. Bring everything you need with you to the library; we do
not allow students to return to lockers once in the library!
2) If you need to visit the library one day, and you are not scheduled to
visit your study hall, you can come to the library before you go to your
homeroom class, and, based upon our library schedule for the day, a
predetermined number of lunch passes will be available on a "first come, first served" basis.
When you come to the library during an "off" period (meaning that you aren't scheduled to be in a specific class, like English or Math or Spanish or Gym...:o)) you can work on homework, check out a book, work on classwork, use your Chromebook (school appropriately, of course!), play a game, read a book, just hang out...I want you to see the library as a place where you can choose to do whatever it is you need to do at that moment. If you need to work on something, I can help if you need me. If you want to sit and read a book quietly, you can do that. If you need to sit quietly and reflect on 3rd period, you can do that. The library is a great place for EVERYONE, regardless of whether they like to play Uno while they're visiting from study hall, or working on Algebraic equations homework.
We have Uno, checkers, Connect 4, chess, Battleship, Guess Who?, BananaGrams, Scrabble, Memory, the Game of Life, Monopoly, Eye Found It!, Reversi, Sorry!, and a lot of others.
Pssssst...Mr. Thompson likes to think that he's the champion of Connect 4, so if you happen to be in the library one day, and you're playing, don't be surprised if you hear him say, "I've got winner."
Mrs. Green is here to serve the students, faculty, and staff of Wappingers Junior High School, so if there is something that you have read and enjoyed, and think that others might as well, I expect you to come in and tell me!
You are ALWAYS welcome to email me at beth.green@wcsdny.org, and I will
do my best to help you out!
If you email Mrs. Green (beth.green@wcsdny.org), and let her know what book you need renewed, she can help you.