Our Lady Star of the Sea
Catholic School
Where Christ is the unseen teacher in each and every classroom
Star's Librarians
Mrs. Sigouin and Mrs. Sierzenga
Award-Winning Author, Anne Sibley O'Brien, visits Star's Library
The above pictures feature Anne Sibley O'Brien and her award winning
graphic novel THE LEGEND OF HONG KIL DONG: THE ROBIN HOOD OF KOREA.
(Click on the image to get a full-screen picture).
Anne Sibley O'Brien is a children's book creator who has illustrated
twenty-five picture books, including Jamaica's Find and five other
Jamaica books by Juanita Havell (Houghton Mifflin) and Jouanah: A Hmong
>Cinderella (Shen's Books). She has collaborated with Margy Burns Knight
on five books including Talking Walls (Tilbury House, Publishers) and
Africa Is Not A country (Millbrook Press). In 1997 they received the
>National Education Association Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights
Award of their body of work. O'Brien has also illustrated a number of
her own books, including two retellings of Korean tales, The Princess
> and the Beggar (Scholastic), and the just released The Legend of Hong
Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea (Charlesbridge), a picture book in
graphic novel form.
-Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature 2007
-Booklist's "Top 10 Graphic Novels for Youth, 2007," Bank Street College
-Global Korea Award 2007
Learn more about Anne Sibley O'Brien by visiting her web site at
http://www.annesibleyobrien.com/
We are looking forward to an exciting year with your children! Pre-school students come once a week for story time and book check out. Kindergarten and through 5th grade come once a week for a lesson and book check-out. The library is available to middle school students daily for book check-out and reference/research needs.
Our goals for the students are:
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To develop a love for reading by sharing numerous works of quality children's literature.
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To give each student the necessary tools to successfully research a topic using all of the library resources.
To achieve these goals, the following objectives are developed for each grade level:
Kindergarten - Understanding of sense of story, listening skills, car of books, and what an author, title, and illustrator are.
Grade One - Above plus the ability to select books for check out independently, and a beginning understanding of the concepts of fiction and non-fiction.
Grade Two - Above plus beginning reference skills, parts of a title page ,and the ability to read correct facts from informational books.
Grade Three - Above plus understanding of the Dewey Decimal classification system, the ability to use this information to locate books from the card and/or electronic catalog, and use of dictionaries.
Grade Four - Above plus use of atlases, almanacs and other reference sources. Begin discussing the elements of specific genres. Understanding parts of a book, glossary, index, and appendix.
Grade Five - Above plus application of reference skills to specific research topics from content areas. Exploring specific genres, such as mystery.
Grades 6-8 - Above plus application of reference skills to specific topics fromall areas of curriculum.