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Welcome!

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:

  • Kindergartners may have one book for one week.
  • First graders may have two books for two weeks.
  • Second through fifth graders may have up to four books for two weeks. If they need more time, and nobody has placed holds on the items, students may renew for an additional two weeks.

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.

Tumblebook of the Day

More Tumblebooks

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.

 

World Book Online

World Book Online offers nonfiction e-books presented as page layouts. You do have to be on a Rhode Island IP address and go in via AskRI.org to access them. To read them on a mobile device, you need to download the free World Book eBook app.

 

eZone/Overdrive

You can access hundreds of e-books via the public library; you just need your library card number. To read books on your mobile device, you need to download the free Overdrive app. Don't forget to check out the audiobook collection as well - great for family road trips.

Latest Blog Post

  • Hey, Riddle, RiddleThis link opens in a new windowNov 17, 2024

    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? 

    1. You are a cyclist in a cross­-country race. Just before crossing the finish line, you overtake the person in second place! What place did you finish in? 

    2. Jimmy's mother had 4 children. She named the first Monday and the second Tuesday. The third is named Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child? 

    3. You are driving a bus. At the first stop, 2 women get on. The second stop, 3 men get on and 1 woman gets off. Third stop, 3 kids and their mom get on, and a man gets off. The bus is grey, and it is raining outside. What color is the bus driver’s hair? 

    4. Which is heavier? A pound of feathers, or a pound of rocks? 

    5. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? 

    6. In my hand I have two coins. Together, they total 30 cents. One isn’t a nickel. What are the coins?


    I had to wait to post pictures of the students until we got the new photo permissions list.