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LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
The atmosphere in the Resource Center is warm and inviting. The walls feature a selection of student work, art prints, and book posters and there is a couch where students can curl up and read.
Paradise Elementary Resource Center houses over 4000 fiction, non fiction, and reference materials as well as a selection of magazines, filmstrips, videos, software, science supplies and teacher resources. Our Parent Resource section provides an assortment of books, magazines and pamphlets that may be borrowed by parents, dealing with parenting and educational issues. The quality and quantity of our resource collection is continually assessed and every effort is made to ensure that our collection meets the academic and recreational needs of our students.
Our resource center is fully automated, using the software program Library Pro. Through this program, the library database can be searched from any network computer in the school.
The Resource Center is equipped with 3 networked computers and a variety of multimedia software to support curriculum needs. Printing is also available through our computer lab's network laser printer.
Although Paradise Elementary is firmly committed to fostering technological literacy in our students there is an even greater commitment to promoting reading. Each year we celebrate Canada Book week, Library week, and Canada Book Day with promotional posters, contests, and/or bookmarks and at least once per year we host a Canadian author or illustrator. We also hold a book fair in the Fall.
Reading is also encouraged through the regular book exchange program. Students visit the Resource Center with their teacher to exchange books once per cycle. The Resource Center is also open to students during recess and lunch play time. Prefects from grades 5 and 6 are responsible for checking books in and out at this time and for helping with re-shelving books.
Parent volunteers perform the many routine daily chores necessary to keep the Resource Center functioning. This includes cataloguing, covering, and labeling new materials, repairing and shelving books, organizing shelves, and pulling seasonal materials and setting up displays. They also help with photocopying, laminating and binding materials for resource-based units.
The heart of the Resource Center program involves working with students in the development of information literacy skills. This mandate is achieved through thematic Resource- based units cooperatively taught by classroom teachers and the Learning Resource Teacher. These units are comprehensive and curriculum based. Students are actively engaged, using a wide variety of print, non-print and electronic resources to solve specific information needs. This years units include:
| The Environment | - | Grade 6 |
| Flight | - | Grade 5 |
| The Netherlands | - | Grade 4 |
| Under The Sea / Deserts | - | Grade 3 |
| Space (technology focus) | - | Grade 2 |
| Basic Computer Skills | - | Grade 1 |
| Rabbits | - | Kindergarten |
The combination of high quality in both the program and resources offered through the Resource Center at Paradise Elementary is essential for students to achieve the knowledge, skills, and attitudes outlined in provincial curriculum documents and to help them become both independent learners and collaborative team members in problem solving environments.
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