Welcome to the White Oaks Elementary School Library Media Center!
At the library you can:
Read for fun
The White Oaks Library offers books and magazines that will provide hours of reading pleasure. As students have fun reading, they will learn valuable language arts skills and their knowledge in all subject areas will be enhanced.
We offer many traditional and newly published picture storybooks which we refer to as EVERYBODY books.
Our FICTION collection contains fantasy, humorous, realistic, science and historical fiction.
Children's magazines continue to be popular reading materials, so much so that for the most requested magazines, duplicate subscriptions have been ordered.
Various resources are available for conducting research.
Reference books include:
Sets of encyclopedias
Single volume encyclopedias
Almanacs
Atlases
Timelines
Non-fiction books cover curriculum topics such as language arts, social studies, science, math, music, art and physical education.
Students may also use the Internet to research an assigned topic. All computers use Internet filtering software to help safeguard students as they use the web.
2006-2007 Virginia Reader's Choice
A favorite activity of White Oaks students is listening to the Virginia Young Reader books. During the school year, students in Kindergarten through third grade listen to these ten books, which include stories and nonfiction books. After all ten books have been read, each student will vote for his/her favorite book. The voting results from our school will then be sent on to the state level where a counting of the statewide voting will reveal the favorite Virginia Young Reader book for the year.
Grades K-3
The Turn-Around Upside Down Alphabet Book – Lisa Campbell Ernst
Absolutely Not! – Matthew McElligott
Do You Have a Hat? – Eileen Spinelli
Mr. Putter and Tabby Write the Book – Cynthia Rylant
Ish – Peter Reynolds
Hunter’s Best Friend at School – Laura Elliott
Manana Iguana – Ann Whitford Paul
Homespun Sarah – Verla Kay
Guji Guji – Chih-Yuan Chen
Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack – Lyn McFarland
Grades 3-5
Ida B. – Katherine Hannigan
Lucy Rose: Here’s the Thing About Me – Katy Kelly
Friend on
Freedom
River
– Gloria Whelan
Lowji Discovers
America
–Candace Fleming
Mighty Jackie: The Strikeout Queen – Marissa Moss
Double Digit Club – Marion Dane Bauer
Each Little Bird That Sings – Deborah Wiles
Last
Holiday
Concert – Andrew Clements
Virginia
Bound – Amy Butler
A Fish in Room 11 – Heather Dyer
Kindergarten students may checkout 1 book for one week.
Students in grades 1 through 6 may checkout 2 books for two weeks.
REFERENCE BOOKS may be checked out thirty minutes before the end of the school day and must be returned by 9:15 the next school day.
NO FINE is charged for an overdue book. Borrowing privileges however are suspended until the overdue book(s) is returned.
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Use a computer
Computers play an important role in information access at the White Oaks Library.
Students may access online encyclopedias. Filtering software is in place to help safeguard students as they use the Internet.
To access the online encyclopedias at home check your Blackboard 24/7 account for user names and passwords or just ask the librarian
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