Ms. Etemad-Lehmer’s 3/4 core is once again the top reading class in the school. For the combined months of Dec/Jan her students read for 46.8 points per capita, thereby winning the coveted Eratosthenes Award for Reading Excellence.
3rd of February 2010
28th of January 2010
Thanks to the Samms family we have a gorgeous new look to our library. Take a look at our new large screen monitors.
2nd of December 2009
Check out the wonderful display of new books! There’s nothing better for enticing readers than the shine of a new book!
17th of November 2009
“
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ”
—
Augustine Birrell, ~Obiter Dicta~ “Book Buying”
5th of November 2009
Mr. Martin’s classes are answering some “Essential Questions” on Islam by researching in the library.
3rd of November 2009
Mrs. Elerick’s class is the first winner of the “Erastosthenes Award for Reading Excellence”. They are the top reading Language Arts class at AJHS with 53.7 points per capita. They will be eating sweet, sweet donuts in the library, Wednesday at break.
Erastosthenes was the third librarian in Alexandria, and the man who calculated the circumferance of the world.
28th of October 2009
What is science? Everything is science! Mr. James and Mrs. Welles brought their 7th grade science classes in to learn how to find non-fiction books on science in the library.
22nd of October 2009
It was a lovely day to read on the library’s lawn.
13th of October 2009
“
Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing. ”
—
Cicero
12th of October 2009
The “House of Flying Books” was a major undertaking. Setting up the bookfair, running students through, monitering the merchandise, and getting it all taken down in a weeks time. We did a fair amount of business, but I’ll admit that a midweek theft situation did take the wind from beneath my wings.
