| INTRODUCTION |
Mission |
| The mission of the Euchee Creek Media Center is to support the philosophy, goals and instructional program of the school. To achieve this mission the media center provides intellectual and physical access to information and ideas on all appropriate levels of difficulty with a diversity of appeal and points of view. |
Scheduling |
Hours: Monday through Friday -- 8:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Small groups and individual students have access throughout the day. All classes visit the Media Center weekly for checkout and a related activity such as Storytime, Media Skills, research, or AR awards. Our regular daily schedule can be altered as needed so that the curriculum needs of all classes are met and special events can be accommodated. Classes may also schedule the adjacent computer lab for research, project publication, and skills reinforcement. Please refer to the tentative calendar on the Media Center home page.
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Story Time |
| Pre-Kindergarten through second grades will participate in a weekly “storytime” lesson. These lessons will focus primarily on literature appreciation that promotes recommended titles and authors with emphasis on the Georgia Children's Picture Storybook Award nominees. Basic skills such as the care of books, location of library materials, and use of the automated card catalog will be introduced. |
Media Skills |
Weekly visits for third, fourth, and fifth grades will concentrate on more specific information literacy skills that include the classification and location of library materials, use of the automated card catalog, reference books, bibliographic format, and recommended titles and authors will be discussed. Games and hands-on activities will be used to help reinforce these concepts.
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Cooperatively Planned Lessons |
| Teachers are encouraged to work with the media specialist in developing additional information literacy lessons that are integrated within the existing curriculum. Educational research has proven this approach to be helpful in enabling students to become independent lifelong learners. Resources are also routinely collected for classroom use, esp. for social studies and science topics, as well as supplemental AR reading. Our two computer labs provide resources needed for further online research and the production of multimedia projects. |
Media Center Passes |
Student passes are designed to help keep students on task so that classroom instructional time is not wasted. The following individual student passes are used for visits to the Media Center. Whenever a student comes to the media center without an adult, he should have his yellow library card with him for safety/identification procedures, as well as for checkout.
School Store (green) 5 minutes -- 8:00-8:25 a.m. / Limited to one visit per week.
Free Reading (blue) 15-20 minutes -- For enrichment including individual reading or hands-on activities.
Accelerated Reader Quiz (red) 5-10 minutes.
Checkout (orange) 5-10 minutes.
Special Needs (white -- hand written by teacher)
-- Group of students working together
-- Internet use
-- Student without identification (yellow library card) |
Circulation Policies |
3 books per student (1 book for kindergarten until second semester)
Two week checkout period with 3 renewals -- no overdue fines.
Damage fees or replacement costs charged for damaged or lost books.
$1.00 charge for lost or damaged library card.
Circulation limits are designed to help students handle their responsibilities with success. Lower grade levels may begin with one book and increase the number as children gain maturity. Most parents seem to appreciate this safegard which helps reduce the problem of lost books. These general policies may be modified to meet specific student needs, usually at the request of the teacher.
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