Library/Media Center

Welcome to the Meadows Media Center!
Many new improvements were made in the 2019-2020 school year such as the addition of a flat screen TV and DVD player in the tiered viewing area, the entire  book/media/periodicals collection being moved for improved  flow pattern, and installation of new computers and printers throughout the media center. We hope you agree the Meadows Media Center is a fun and attractive room.
In 2020-2021, our computer lab was outfitted with brand-new computers ready for lessons and testing. In addition, our school excitedly welcomed individual Chromebooks for our teachers and students in grades 2-5.  When we went remote learning, our students and teachers moved forward with Canvas, Google Meets, and Google Classrooms.  In addition, the media center has a new document camera on the multimedia cart which allows Mrs. Deal to share books up on a large screen.
Our media center promotes our new Young Hoosier Books for K-3 and grades 4-5 students.  We have a very competitive Battle of the Books team coached by 5th grade teacher Miss  Lindsay Kulpinski.  Mrs. Deal is the Vigo County District Elementary Battle of the Books Coordinator.
The Library Leaders are another new addition to the Meadows program. These fourth and fifth graders are nominated by their teachers to serve on my leadership team as together we keep the media center well organized at all times. They provide extra support during their lunch hour recess once a week per homeroom.
Meadows was awarded a VCEF grant in the fall of 2019-2020 school year that allowed us to take down an old whiteboard and replace it with a bright green and gray full length Lego wall.  In order to incorporate more community workplace education, we have written a grant to secure community helper Legos to supplement our Lego collection.  It is our hope that this will bring years of joy and excitement to our Meadowlarks. Our media center is the hub in our school for meetings, lessons, pleasure reading, research, online testing, and much more. Come and explore all that we have in our media center!

Library/Media Specialist

Mrs. Kathy Deal is our school library/media specialist/Technology Resource Teacher since 2019.  In addition,  Mrs. Deal is the District Intervention Coach for the Vigo County School Corporation where she oversees the 21st Century Community Learning Grant programs at DeVaney, Ouabache, and CASY sites (Farrington Grove and Sugar Grove).  She works four days at Meadows Elementary and one day at the VCSC Administration Building.  “I have my favorite jobs of all:  library/technology, curriculum, and after school leadership.”

Mrs. Deal graduated Magna Cum Laude from Indiana State University with a Bachelors of Arts in Spanish and World Civilizations, a Masters of Library Science and Audio-visual Sciences,  and a Building Level Administrator’s License.  Her work experience include:  Periodicals Librarian at St. Marys of the Wood College and Librarian/Media Specialist at Brazil Junior High School (Clay Community Schools), Riley Elementary and Meadows Elementary (Vigo County Schools), and District Intervention Coach at Farrington Grove, Franklin Elementary, Sarah Scott Middle School, Booker T. Washington Alternative School, and McLean Alternative School.  She serves on the District Curriculum team.  She has worked in a wide variety of roles in media, technology, Title I, and language arts working with students Prekindergarten through college level.

Mrs. Deal serves her work and home communities as the 2021 President of the Vigo County Purdue Extension Board of Director,  Past Community Lay Director of El Shaddai Emmaus Board of Directors, member of the United Way of the Wabash Valley Board of Directors, 2021 President of the Clay  County Business and Professional Women’s Club, Co-Chair of the Power of the Community annual UWWV project, and Administrator over the annual Reality Store project.  Over the last 25+ years, she has served as a lead evaluator on school review teams for Cognia/AdvancED in Indiana and North Carolina.

Her awards include:  2021 The Journey Fellowship for Executive Youth Workers, 2004 Excellence in Education (Riley Elementary), 2002 Business and Professional Women/Indiana Mentor Award, 2001 Clay County Focus Award in Education, and 1984 Business and Professional Women/Clay County Young Careerist Representative.

Library Resources

Follett

Follett Library Server (Meadows Library Server)  http://follett1.vigoschools.org/common/servlet/presenthomeform.do?l2m=Home&tm=Home&l2m=Home

The school library media center uses the Follett library system to circulate library materials.  Hardcover, paperback, and e-books are available to our students.  DVDs are available for classroom use.  Students are strongly encouraged to read as many titles that have Reading Count quizzes as possible.

Students in K-1 are allowed to check out 1 book per week.

Students in 2-5 are allowed to check out 2 books per week.  Additional books are allowed to be checked out for research projects.

Reading Counts

Our library books that have a Reading Counts quiz is labeled by a brightly colored lexile tape on the spine based on its lexile level.  Each color represents a different reading level which helps the students to find books at their current reading level.  Inside of the cover, the exact lexile and points help the child to know how many points the book actually has.

How to Use Reading Counts at Home https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xc8AsuDSX1aH0ca5CRnsVNnvtOox5lQ6Ww2bStEJSIg/edit

To Find Out If a Book Has a Reading Count Quiz  https://readingcountsbookexpert.tgds.hmhco.com/bookexpert/searchtips.asp?UID=&subt=

SRI

Our students in grades 1-5 take a SRI test periodically to monitor their reading level.  This helps the child to show growth in their reading comprehension efforts.

Read LIVE

Read LIVE is a reading comprehension program that provides students with quality reading texts to increase their reading skills.

Read Live https://readlive.readnaturally.com/vigocounty

2020-2021

Young Hoosier Picture Books

Bugs Don’t Hug: Six-Legged Parents and Their
Kids by Heather L. Montgomery
Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings
Crash, Splash, or Moo! by Bob Shea
Doll-E 1.0 by Shanda McCloskey
Do Not Lick This Book by Idan Ben-Barak
Don’t Feed the Bear by Kathleen Doherty
Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie Sima
How To Eat Pizza by Jon Burgerman
If Wendall Had a Walrus by Lori Mortensen
The Little i Who Lost His Dot by Kimberlee Gard
Lovely Beasts: The Surprising Truth by Kate Gardner
Misunderstood Shark by Ame Dyckman
Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
My Pet Wants A Pet by Elise Broach
Oh, No, Bobo! You’re in Trouble by Phil
Gosier
A Place for Pluto by Stef Wade
Saffron Ice Cream by Rashin Kheiriyeh
This Is A Taco! by AndrewCangelose
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T.
Higgins

2020-2021

Young Hoosier Intermediate Books

Before She Was Harriet
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead
The Bookshop Girl by Sylvia Bishop
A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine
Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker
The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective
Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln by Marissa Moss
Granted by John David Anderson
Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes
Life According to Og the Frog
by Betty G. Birney
Lions & Liars by Kate Beasley
Lost (Survivor Diaries) by Terry Lynn
Johnson
Max & the Midknights by Lincoln Peirce
Monster Mayhem
by Christopher Eliopoulos
The Phantom Tower by Keir Graff
Power Forward (Zayd Saleem, Chasing the
Dream) by Hena Khan
RA the Mighty, Cat Detective by A.B. Greenfield
Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech
Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Watson Hackl
The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee
by Deborah Abela
Wonderland by Barbara O’Connor

2021-2022

Young Hoosier Picture Books

Bad Dog by Mike Boldt
Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together
by Andrea Tsurumi
Fly! by Mark Teague
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
by Kevin Noble Maillard
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
The Happy Book and Other Feelings by Andy
Rash
I Am a Tiger by Karl Newson
If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen
Let’s Have a Sleepover by Norm Feuti
Linus the Little Yellow Pencil by Scott
Magoon
Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan
Stutzman
Moon! Earth’s Best Friend by Stacy
McAnulty
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel
Quintero
A Normal Pig by K-Fai Steele
Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin
Octopus Stew by Eric Velasquez
The Panda Problem by Deborah
Underwood
Ruby Finds a Worry by Tom Percival
Snack Attack! by Terry Border
Where’d My Jo Go? By Jill Esbaum

2021-2022

Young Hoosier Intermediate Books

Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen
by Niki Lenz
The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows
Bouncing Back by Scott Ostler
The Day the Universe Exploded My Head:
Poems to Take You into Space and Back
Again by Allan Wolf
The Dog Who Lost His Bark by Eoin Colfer
Gross As a Snot Otter: Discovering the
World’s Most Disgusting Animals
by Jess Keating
I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak
Jada Sly, Artist & Spy by Sherri Winston
Katt Vs. Dogg by James Patterson
Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat: Volume 1
by Johnny Marciano and Emily
Chenoweth
Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood
Madam C.J. Walker Builds a Business by
Denene Millner
Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica
Khoury
Operation Frog Effect by Sarah Scheerger
Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd
Project Z: A Zombie Ate My Homework
by Tommy Greenwald
She Dared: Bethany Hamilton by Jenni L.
Walsh
The Space We’re In by Katya Balen
Stargazing by Jen Wang
Titanosaur: Discovering the World’s Largest
Dinosaur by Josè Luis Carbadillo, and
Diego Pol

Award Winners

Name of Book

Author’s Name

The Young Hoosier Book Award Program encourages self-selected reading among elementary and middle school/junior high school children. Select a category below to view each age group’s reading list and access resource guides and activity sheets for each book. Students vote on their favorites!

 

The results for the 2020-2021 Young Hoosier Book Awards are in!
There were over 40,000 votes submitted this year.
Our winners this year are:

 

Picture Book – Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings with 5,961 votes

Intermediate Book – A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold with 519 votes

Middle Grades – New Kid by Jerry Craft with 169 votes

 

Congratulations to our winners!

 

Thank you to all who participated in YHBA this year!

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2021 Newbery Award Winner

2021 Caldecott Award Winner

Name of Book: When You Trap a Tiger,

Author’s Name: Tae Keller

What book won the Newbery Award in 2021?
When You Trap a Tiger
John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature: When You Trap a Tiger written by Tae Keller, is the 2021 Newbery Medal winner.
The 2021 Caldecott Awards were announced this morning. The committee chose one winner and four honor books. The winner is: We Are Water Protectors, illustrated by Michaela Goade and written by Carole Lindstrom.
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