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Sue Siegel, Librarian
Tammy Potter, Library Secretary
Scholastic Book Fair Coming Soon
The Scholastic Book Fair will be held in the library December 7 -11. We are so excited to host the Book Fair Read Around the World in Marshall’s library. We’ve created exciting events for families, and we want to share this celebration of reading with you. Book Fairs are one of the highlights of the school year and we are very excited about this one.
Family Night will be Tuesday, December 8; we will be opened 5-8 for family shopping. Come to Book Fair and ejoy shopping and seeing other families from the community.
We are looking for volunteers to help us set up the fair on Friday, December 5, and to set up and run the fair during the week. If you are interested in helping with the fair please contact Sue Siegel or Tammy Potter, 703.680.0199 or email siegelsx@pwcs.edu .
Playaways from the Marshall Library
The library has a new collection of audiobooks called Playaways. These new devices are each loaded with a single popular title. They are about the size of an iPod, small enough to fit in a pocket or purse. You listen to them with headphones and control them with a few simple buttons on the back of the player. This means you don't need a computer, a CD player, an MP3 player or any other extra hardware to listen to an audiobook.
Fourth and fifth grade students may check out one playaway. The student can not have any over due items in order to check out a playaway.
One of the main goals of the library is to teach students how to use the resources available to them. As part of the Standards of Learning, all students must know how to utilize the Information Management System. This process will follow them throughout their school years.
 Hours:
The library hours are from 8:50 to 3:30 . Parents are invited to also check out books. Parents may check out books for a two week period of time.
Check out:
Library books are checked out for one week.
Kindergarten may check out one book.
First & Second Grade may check out two books.
Third through fifth graders may check out three books and a magazine (which is due back the next day).
Playaways (audiobooks) may be checked out by fourth and fifth graders. The playaway is counted as a book.
We do not charge for over due books. If a student has a late book or magazine, it needs to be returned before continuing check outs. Any lost or damaged items need to be paid for in order to continue check outs.
News from the Library Media Center
Students were busy in October with these library lessons:
Kindergarten: Students continued to learn how to "browse" for a book they would enjoy. They are working on the proper care of books and how to be a quality student using the library. Books! Books! Books was a wonderful story heard by the students about how to enjoy the library.
First Grade: First graders have enjoyed using the Smartboard, interactive book to discover the difference between real (nonfiction) and make believe (fiction) type books. Library Lion was enjoyed by the students when they heard about a lion enjoying the use of a library! During the next lessons in October in the library first graders took the real and make believe book vocabulary to the next understanding of nonfiction and fiction books. They discovered the elements of the nonfiction book and where they are located in the library. These lessons have prepared the students for research coming in November.
Second Grade: Second graders were introduced to the nominations of the Virginia Readers' Choice Award books. They enjoyed Vera Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly which is a fiction book with informational facts about butterflies. The students continued library lessons to reinforce the elements of a fiction type book. They used the Smartboard , interactive board, to help map the elements found in fiction in the book Ira Sleeps Over.
Third Grade: Third grades were very busy understanding and uses resources (text and on line) found in the library. Lessons for these students included: using the library catalog on the computer, using an atlas (text and on line), using the encyclopedia (text and on line), and then using an almanac (text and on line). Now the classes are prepared for the research planned for science on environments.
Fourth Grade: Fourth graders were reviewing and practicing how to locate books using the Dewey Decimal System. They are excellent users of the library catalog but needed to continue the understanding of how the call number of a book is the location of the book in the library and find the book on the shelf.
Fifth Graders: Fifth graders continued their Make Way for Ducklings unit in the library. The students learn about the migration of water birds. They then used an atlas to map the Atlantic Waterway that the birds follow for migration in North America.
Students are welcomed to return and check out books every day. The library has an opened door policy for students to check out books any time of the school day. Library lessons are part of the encore specials' time as well as additional lessons are planned by the classroom teacher and the librarian.
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