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Grant to help update library at Truscott Elementary School
By Carl McCutchen • Loveland Connection • August 31, 2010
The library at Truscott Elementary School still features books like the “Nancy Drew” and “Hardy Boys” series, as well as some other nostalgic reads. The books are clearly outdated, but as one of Thompson School District’s Title I, or lower income schools, it’s been hard for media specialist Resa Mai to be able to replace the books with newer and more popular books.
“If I could pull those off and get ‘Percy Jackson’ on there, or ‘39 Clues,’ which is another series, those are the books kids want,” Mai said.
Luckily for Mai, and the 303 students at Truscott, a recent grant likely will be able to help the school secure a few more popular books.
On Friday, Mai announced to the school during an assembly that Target had granted $2,500 to the school’s library.
The grant is essentially two grants that allocates $500 specifically for books, and then $2,000 for whatever Mai feels the library needs.
Mai said she already has been working to spend the $500 portion of the grant, buying up as many books as she possibly can for the library.
“I’ve got a whole bunch of books to start with,” she said.
Books she said she feels the library certainly needs since it is one of the smaller ones within the district.
“We have less than 12 books per student,” Mai said. “Ideally, you want to have 16 to 18 books per student.”
Part of the reason Truscott received the grant was because its library was so small, said Deana Lemos-Garcia, human resources manager for the Loveland, Target who was on hand Friday to share in the celebration of the grant.
She said each Target was able to pick a school to donate the $500 book grant to, and then the $2,000 grant was one that Loveland’s Target team members were able to allocate wherever they chose.
Lemos-Garcia said that after visiting Truscott and other schools, it was clear Truscott had the biggest need for the money.
“We thought it was a great opportunity to upgrade the library,” she said.
While some of the $500 book grant has already been spent, Mai said she’s barely begun figuring out how to spend the rest of the money.
She did purchase a new rug for the kindergarteners to sit on during reading time and also purchased a new chair for reading time.
One of the things Mai, who also serves as the department chair of elementary school media for TSD, said she plans to spend the money on is books that will accompany the social studies classes.
“This year, as a whole, I’m trying to get all of the elementary schools to try to focus on social studies,” she said.
Additionally, Mai said she would spend the money on other books that kids have been asking for, as well as more books in genres that kids find interesting, like non-fiction.
“Money like this grant is kind of like found money, and with that I want to buy fun books for the kids,” she said. “So, with the books that are coming in, I can replace some of the non-fiction books that are outdated. And kids are very peer-conscious. They all want to read new books.”
Truscott Elementary School is proud to offer Core Knowledge curriculum. This curriculum is rich in World History, Geography, Sciences, Art, PE, and Music while still maintaining a strong focus on Literacy and Mathematics. Here at Truscott we proudly offer Spanish as a foreign language to all of our students.
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