MOBILE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LIBRARY/MEDIA CENTER

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Mission Statement

The mission of the school library media center is to enable students and staff in becoming effective users of ideas and information and to encourage leisure use of worthy materials.

Proverbs 2:10, 11                                                           

"When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge itself becomes pleasant to your very soul, thinking ability itself will keep guard over you, discernment itself will safeguard you"

 

The Mobile Christian School Library/Media Center has over 11,000 volumes of books for students and teachers.  In addition, the collection consists of 800 videos and DVD's for teacher use.  United Streaming from Discovery Education and Alabama Public Television (APT) is also available to teachers for digital videos.

Students and teachers have access to four computers (with plans to expand) in the Library/Media Center.  On campus we have both a high school computer lab and an elementary/middle school lab with workstations in each lab for student and teacher use.  All computers have Internet for research and information.  The Reference department consists of books and also branches out to Internet sources like the Alabama Virtual Library.  The Accelerated Reader Program is used to broaden the minds of our elementary students with educational as well as pleasure reading.

           

Mobile Christian School Library/Media Center is committed to fostering a love of reading in our students and developing life-lone reading habits which extend beyond the classroom and into their daily lives.

 

  

Accelerated Reading Program

Accelerated Reading will be introduced in 1st grade and used in Grades 2nd to 5th.  This program is a computerized reading management program.  The program provides motivation, accountability, and literature-based reading practice for students while giving teachers important feedback about individual reading progress.  The program works this way: 1) a student reads an AR book on his reading level; 2) the student takes a computer quiz to measure how well he understood the book; 3) after each computer test, a report is generated that tells how the student scored on the test.  The students develop a great love for reading and enjoy earning points each week.  I hope your child loves it too.

 

STAR Program

Each elementary student in Grades 1st to 5th will be given a STAR Reading Test in August and January to determine their reading level for the AR Program.  This test is done on the computers in the elementary computer lab.  Based on test results, students will be given their reading range.  When the students visit the library they will use this reading range to check out books in their level.