Library

Summer Reading!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…SUMMER! And one month left for the PPE 100 Books & 100 Hours Outside Challenge! As a reminder, record the titles of the books you read (for chapter books: 50 pages = 1 book) in the numbered boxes and color a leaf for each hour spent outside this summer. 
 
Ms. Stuart’s recommended summer reading book lists can be found here. There’s a list of titles for the entire family and individual lists for rising 1st graders-rising 5th graders. 
 
Don’t forget! Students can check out books and play-aways from the Nashville Public Library using their student ID number (beginning with 190) as the card number and the 4 digits of their birth month and date as the pin ( ex. May 21 = 0521). Audiobooks (find page count on Amazon) and family read alouds are highly encouraged! The Nashville Public Library’s Libby app has thousands of audiobooks available for checkout. Highly recommended! 
 
Each student who reads 100 books & spends 100 hours outside will be recognized and receive a prize in August. Extra challenge sheets are on the PPE website and on the PPE front porch. 
 
Suggested Weekly Book Breakdown (rising 3rd-5th grade):
1 chapter book (ex. a 200 page book counts as 4 books)
2 nonfiction books (can be nonfiction picture books)
4 picture books (you’re NEVER too old for picture books)
 
Suggested Weekly Book Breakdown (rising K-2nd grade):
8 picture books/early readers/early chapter books
1 family read aloud 
1 audiobook
 
HAPPY READING and enjoy every minute spent in the GREAT OUTDOORS! 
 

“Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it is all impossible, and they know it, and yet they believe.” ~ Charlotte Mason

MISSON

To give children a lifelong love of reading and learning through sharing stories and providing books that point to goodness, beauty, and truth.

ATMOSPHERE

Books and children are the heart of the library. Inspired by the philosophy and methods of British educator Charlotte Mason, Miss Stuart works to create and atmosphere free from artificial distractions and screens. Stories are at the heart of every library lesson because in the works of Kathleen Kelly, “When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”

MISS STUART

A Percy Priest alum, Miss Stuart’s favorite childhood games were school and library and so it was no surprise when she earned a B.A. in Elementary Education from the UT-Chattanooga and her Master’s in Library & Information Science from the University of Tennessee. Inspired by the beauty of the everyday and the power of story, she takes great joy in sharing books with Percy Priest students and families.

Miss Stuart is a professor at New College Franklin where she teaches various children’s literature courses. When not at school, she is probably hiking with a friend, reading in a patch of sunlight, trying to justify eating waffles and bacon for the fifth night in a row, or rewatching a Nora Ephron movie.

POLICIES

  • Kindergarten students may check-out 1 item at a time
  • 1st-5th grade students may checkout up to 4 items at a time
  • Students may keep books for two weeks and renew them 2x
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