About the Media Center

The Westgate Elementary School Media Center encourages students to:

investigate research projects and new ideas,

discover interesting facts, and

find fantastic fiction books.

Students, staff, faculty and parents are encouraged to come to the media center and check out new books, research, and READ !

Loan Policy

Students in Kindergarten may check out one book each week.
Students in First and Second grade may check out two books each week.
Students in Third through Sixth grade may check out four books each week.
(or three books and one magazine).

The loan period is two weeks.

Virginia Readers Choice Books

The Virginia State Reading Association has selected 10 books for students in Virginia schools to vote on. Westgate Elementary School will be holding our Virginia Readers Choice vote in Mid-february. To be eligible to vote, you must have read yourself (or have listened to) four books in your category. All of the books are available in the Westgate Media Center.

Primary	Elementary
Actual Size by Steve Jenkins Baghead by Jarrett J. Krosoczka How Groundhog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry Hungry Hen by Richard Waring Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie by Gloria Whelan Sleeping The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison Little Flower by Gloria Rand The Monster Ate My Peas by Danny Schnitzlein Muldoon by Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole Straight to the Pole by Kevin O’Malley	Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia by Barbara O’Conner Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins Grover G. Graham and Me by Mary Quattlebaum Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine by Diane Stanley Say What? By Margaret Peterson Haddix Snowed in With Grandmother Silk by Carol Fenner

Link to Online Tests. Please print and bring to Ms. Bounds in the library
http://www.fcps.edu/TimberLaneES/VAYR2004/index.htm