Welcome Back 2020!

Happy new school year to you, happy new school year to youuuuuu!  

Covid shmovid, we are still going to have a wonderful year in cyber-library!

I am Ms. Esme, your lucky school librarian.  

Thank you for visiting the school library website. 

This is where whole school information regarding the library will be posted.

Here are answers to some frequently asked questions!

When will I see you?
Grades K- 4: I will be visiting classes weekly.  I will come to you.
Grades 5 - 8: I will be facilitating elective excitement and teaching basic library skills.

You will have Meet links through your Google classroom home room.

How do we check out books?
There will not be print resource checkout during this first quarter of school.

Instead, I will be teaching everyone how to access a wealth of electronic books from our digital libraries.

I'll help you with all the logins. You'll be a "pro" in no time!

It would be helpful if you previewed the 5-minute video about how to check out CPS e-books here.

What are the expectations in library for remote learning?

1. Students are expected to attend, participate and turn in assigned work for all of their Essentials classes regularly (art, library, music, technology, PE) as they would any other core class.  Students will turn in work via Seesaw (K-3) and Google Classroom (4-8).

2. All Stone students are expected to have a Chicago Public Library card. 
If you have never had one before, please click here.
If you have one but have misplaced it or any other issues, please contact your local public library.
Chicago Public Libraries are open and have curbside pick-up available for print resources.

A reminder to please wear a mask and maintain social distance when entering library spaces.

3.  All Stone students are expected to read trade literature (the kind of books in libraries and bookstores) of the student's choice for a minimum of 20 minutes a day. 
E-books, library books, home collection books, books on tape and read-aloud all "count" toward daily reading for library credit.

We may have some time during library classes to read and share what we are reading.  Be prepared!

How will we keep track of our reading? This past spring, we used a super fun app called Beanbright to log titles and time we spent reading, and we earned cool reading cyber-badges. We will be doing that again starting in October (we are waiting for some CPS permissions).  For now, just read, read, read. It's the best thing you can do!

Most importantly: don't worry.
Library is a stress-free zone.

We always have some fun.
Sure, there's a lot of new technology.  I will walk you through everything.  

And if you don't get it, no problem, I'll walk you through it again until you do.

We are all human and human things come up.
We are all working on computers and computer things come up.
We are learning together and patience is our best friend.
We will get through this chapter.  It's library.  We always do.

Artwork by Priscilla Burris.