Hi! I'm Ms. Moore, your library teacher!
I'm at Garden City all day every day except Wednesday afternoons. Click on the tabs above for library lessons, reading lists, and more. Links to e-books and our blog are below.
Suggestions and comments are welcome. Email me at mmoore@cpsed.net.
The Garden City Elementary Library serves a community of approximately 520 students in grades K-5 and 80 teachers / support staff. All Garden City patrons may borrow any materials in the library. As a member of the RILINK Consortium, we also extend free access to materials from around the district.
Materials are selected based on review sources, curriculum connections, student requests, annual awards lists, and Ms. Moore's voracious reading habits. As of fall 2024, we had approximately 5,200 print items. The average age of the collection is 14 years, and 34% is nonfiction.
Classroom teachers may check out as many books as they need for however long they need them.
The number of items a student may have out at any one time varies according to grade:
Students, you are responsible for all items you check out. Please do not loan your library books to your friends! Lost or damaged books must be replaced, either with a new book or the cash equivalent (generally $10 for paperbacks and $20 for hardcovers).
If a teacher or student would like a book that we don't have at Garden City they may take advantage of our Interlibrary Loan program, through which we can order materials from other Cranston school libraries.
The Tumblebook library includes picture books, chapter books, early readers, and nonfiction. Many of the books include narration, and the picture books are animated . The icon above will bring you directly to the site, but if you'd like to log on via a mobile device, the username is gcity, and the password is reads.
At the beginning of the school year, I asked kids in grades 3-5 to warm up their brains by working together to solve riddles. Can YOU figure out the 3rd grade ones?
I had to wait to post pictures of the students until we got the new photo permissions list.