Library
Our Sister Edna Ann Hebert Library provides students with a collection of fiction and non-fiction titles for their use during the school day and to take home. The Primary children choose from a collection of reality-based picture books in keeping with the Montessori emphasis on exposing very young children to reality. A collection of non-fiction titles is also available for young students to check out for home use or to use in the classroom for work such as animal study. Those students who are learning to read also have access to a collection of phonetic and graded readers.
Elementary children come to the library as needed during the day to choose books for research projects as well as fiction titles to read for pleasure in the classroom or at home. The non-fiction collection covers the breadth of the Montessori Elementary curriculum, with topics such as animals, plants, ancient history, and countries of the world well-represented. The fiction collection comprises literary classics for children, contemporary children’s fiction, and early chapter and series books to help the children increase their reading fluency.
Adolescents also visit to the library to use the computers for research or for typing research projects. They may spend time reading and taking notes or may simply spend time reading for pleasure. The Library Manager is available to help our adolescent students navigate age-appropriate online research databases.
One of the goals of the library is to help create a student body of avid readers. Parents are encouraged to allow their children to read whatever interests them. Early chapter series, for example, build fluency, preparing children for more advanced titles. Even reading children’s magazines, comics, or the sports pages of the newspaper is worthwhile if that is what your child loves.
Melissa Lopez
Library Manager