Monday, December 16, 2019

December Library News


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!




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