Late November & December DDS Library News
As a combined project between Swigert and Denver Discovery
School the library will be hosting a celebration of quilting the end of
January.
The project is being launched
this month.
Our vision is to combine campuses in the effort of displaying and
learning the ethnic and historical stories materialized in quilts. The library
provides the perfect space for displaying all types of quilts: family,
societal, Amish, historic and rare slave, Hmong, etc. The quilts will be displayed hanging with
‘museum-style’ information boards.
Combining with the quilt project,
Christy Jones will be guiding her Swigert, after-school groups, through a
story-quilt making project that celebrates important events and circumstances
in her student’s lives.
The library was a comfortable setting for the City Year
Association Board meeting on November 21st. They brought donuts so I
hope they come back!
We are following up our “Day of Poetry” with a raffle that
involves poems for prizes! DDS students turn in poems they wrote and get a
raffle ticket. On December 6th we will pull two tickets and the
students will win either a cool NBA basketball or a mesmerizing Smithsonian
plasma lamp for their desk at home.
Thursday afternoons in the library are being set aside for
the important work being accomplished by Wanda Lenox and her team of reading
interventionist as they tutor sixth grade reluctant readers and strive to bring
them up to grade level reading and beyond. Joining Wanda are adult reading
coach volunteers from the community as well as DDS staff members and City Year
members.
A DDS National History Day team is forming and will be using
the library space and extensive resources as they embark on scholarly research
that meets this year’s NHD theme “Breaking Barriers in History”. Assisting them,
the DDS library has been awarded a grant to offset the myriad of costs involved
in bringing our team to competition in May. A big thank you to Eileen Finnegan
for organizing and sponsoring the team!! Go DDS National History Day Team!
Park Hill Community Book Store has graciously donated middle
school level books, many of them designated YA, to add to our collection at
DDS. Thank you Park Hill Community Book Store!
Our classroom sets of Cricket literary magazines have
finally arrived and they look great! They will be used by Allyson Marisch in
her classroom, and then be made available for use by Ms. Lenox in the library
for her Thursday reading group. The literary magazine subscription was a gift
from Julie Meyers and her faith-based community group. The magazine sets, after
use, will rest at home in the library and will be available as supplemental
reading after testing etc.
Through the combined efforts of East High School’s librarian
and Denver Public Library we have been able to furnish one of our support
teachers with a classroom set of the book The Skin I’m In. The students are happy reading an authentic
and relevant book with their dedicated teacher. Thank you Frank at Denver Public Library AskALibraria!
