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Lucy S. Herring Media Center

Lucy S. Herring Media Center

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It's been a tradition for the last few years for students to decorate pumpkins and bring them into the library to display. Pictures are almost as good as seeing them in person! Here are some creative pumpkins from Cash (Percy Jackson), Essie (Sister Bear), and Maya (Harry Potter). Thanks for sharing these!

Percy Jackson pumpkin

Sister Bear pumpkin

 

 

Harry Potter pumpkin

 

 

Links of Interest

https://student.mybobteam.com/

Battle of the Books independent practice

Hour of Code

  Links

 

Bee Maze Coding https://studio.code.org/s/course1/lessons/7/levels/1

Angry Birds Coding https://studio.code.org/hoc/1

Create a virtual snowflake 

 https://dangries.com/rectangleworld/PaperSnowflake/                                       

                                                                                                                                                               

 ACS and Buncombe Co. Public Library Partnership

All ACS students can access the public library with their PowerSchool number! Students can check out e-books and audiobooks through BCPL's digital collection.

Sora Flyer

 

Read Online For Free! (No Login Required) 

 

storyline Online

Watch videos of celebrities reading their favorite books

 

Story Time From Space

See astronauts reading books from space

 

Carolina Panthers 3rd & Goal Read Along

Panthers players and special guests read aloud Scholastic books in a "read along" style

 

The Spanish Experiment

The Spanish Experiment Listen, watch and read along to popular children's stories translated into Spanish and read by a native speaker

 

 

Virtual Field Trips

Fiona the Hippo

Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari 

 

Smithsonian Zoo

Smithsonian Animal Cameras See lions, pandas, elephants, and naked mole-rats live on camera at the Smithsonian Zoo

 

Our Media Center

The Lucy S. Herring Media Center's mission is to support the school's curriculum and foster a love of reading. The library is both fixed and flexibly scheduled to best meet the needs of students. Kindergarten through second grade classes come to the Media Center once a week for book check out and lessons. Third through fifth grade classes are flexibly scheduled to come to the library. Our library provides access to print, digital, and makerspace resources that support the curriculum.

Media Center Staff

Kirsten LeClerc-Media Coordinator

 

Volunteers

We love having volunteers in our library! We can always use help shelving books or assisting during K-2 library time. We also welcome volunteers during our Scholastic book fairs.

Battle of the Books

Vance Battle of the Books Team

4th and 5th grade students are invited each year to be a part of the Battle of the Books team. Students are required to read 8 of the 15 books on the NC list in order to participate. We read, discuss, and practice questions about the books from November through March. The district competition will take place in early April. During both the 2018 and 2019 competitions, the Vance team won the Sportsmanship trophy!

The ACS 2020 Elementary EBOB list is out! Please note: the ACS list has some different titles from the NC state list. We opted to make the list more diverse with more current titles.

Author Visits

Alan Gratz visit
  
Jan Brett visit

We are so lucky to have two wonderful local bookstores in Asheville! Malaprop's and Spellbound have enabled us to have several wonderful author visits over the last few years. Our students have been able to meet Jan Brett, Ben Hatke, Alan Gratz, Grace Lin, Stacy McAnulty, and Barbara O'Connor. The experience of having authors speak to students about their writing has been priceless! We love our local bookstores!

 

 

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