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Media Specialist: Susan McCurry Media Paraprofessional: Megan McHale
♦ be voracious readers,
♠ be creative, collaborative trailblazers,
♠ be critical thinkers,
♠ be active researchers, and
♠ purposeful users and creators of information.
Learning Commons Professionals will support the Mt. Bethel student leaders by:
♠ offering access to materials in print, digital, audio, and visual formats,
♠ furnishing guidance to foster competence and ignite an interest in reading, analyzing, and using information and ideas, and
♠ collaborating with classroom teachers to formulate learning experiences to meet the needs of individual students
In the MBES Learning Commons, we conduct lessons with kindergarten through fifth grade students on a regular basis.
Kindergarten and first grade classes receive lessons to support their literacy and technology standards.
Learning Commons lesson topics for second through fifth grade are listed below:
Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organization of the LC Destiny Research-Cobb Digital Library Office 365 Tools Maker Activities Inquiry Stations | Destiny Research-Cobb Digital Library Encyclopedia Thesaurus Navigating a NF Book Office 365 Tools Maker Activities Inquiry Stations | Destiny Review/Destiny Accounts Encyclopedia Cobb Digital Library NoodleTools Office 365 Tools Maker Activities Inquiry Stations | How to Effectively Choose a Book for a Specific Purpose Destiny Accounts Cobb Digital Library Resources NoodleTools Office 365 Tools Reference Review Maker Activities Inquiry Stations |
Teacher / SLMS collaboration is where students derive the most academic benefit.
Our staff strives to develop collaborative relationships with our teachers at all grade levels and specialties to support grade level content standards in engaging and creative ways.
Learning Commons Leaders
The job of Learning Commons Leaders (grades 2-5) requires that students come to work on assigned mornings by 7:20 to:
♠ shelve books,
♠ organize shelves,
♠ assist other patrons with finding books,
♠ book checkout and return,
♠ cutting bookmarks,
♠ any other duties assigned by Ms. McCurry or Ms.McHale.
A Learning Commons Leader is a role model in the school and exhibits positive behavior at all times in our school community. The responsibilities of this job are to be taken seriously. Training is provided on all aspects of the job in the first few weeks of school and students will be expected to commit for the whole year. Additionally, when the student's class makes visits to the library, we will expect that you assist classmates with any of the above.
MBESTV
Participation in the MBESTV Broadcast Team requires that:
♠ Students be in grades 3 - 5.
♠ Each student wishing to join the team as a rising 3rd or 4th grader must submit a video application.
♠ No 5th grade applications are accepted unless a student was new to the school in 4th grade.
The application process is very competitive, so students must be very creative in their application submission. Applications are accepted during the month of May for the following school year.
Team members must make every effort to be at school and ready to begin work on the broadcast by 7:25 a.m. on the days they are scheduled to work. Also, parents must give permission for their child to participate because the child’s name and face will be on videotape.
Hours
Students are welcome to check books out, use computer resources, and study all day between the hours of 7:15 a.m and 1:55 p.m.
Checkout
All checkouts are for a term of two weeks.
Books can be renewed if another patron does not have a hold on that particular title.
Kindergarten: Two books
First - Fifth: Four books unless pre-arranged with the Learning Commons staff.
Fines
The KSE Learning Commons does not assess fines for overdue books. However, if a book is lost or returned damaged, there is an expectation the book will be paid for so it can be replaced. All book replacements should be handled by the KSE staff as the books we purchase are bound for high volume usage.
