DLAMP Library

Welcome to the

Dual Language Academy Library

My name is Mrs. Burke, and this is my 10^th school year as DLAMP’s Library Specialist.

This school year, all of DLAMP’s Preschool-8 students have weekly scheduled Library times.  Students in Preschool, TK, Kinder and First Grade check out one book at each library class, and those books remain in the students’ classrooms.  Students in grades 2-8 check out two books (one in English and one in Spanish) and can take those books home. Library book bags have been provided to grade 2-6 students to assist students in safely transporting Library books to and from school. Students will reuse these bags all year long.  If these bags break, they can be replaced with Ziplock bags from home. 

Library books may be renewed (unless another student has placed a hold on the book), but they must be brought with them to Library time to be renewed. If books are not returned by the due date, they are overdue.  When books are overdue, the student will not be able to check out another book until their Library books are returned.  If the student has a long overdue book without renewing, (three weeks or longer) that student will not be able to check out any additional books until the overdue book is returned. An overdue notice will be given after two due date periods. Fines are assessed for any lost or damaged books. Recuperating fines for lost or damaged books helps us maintain our Library collection. 

As part of my commitment to PBIS, I participate in giving Positive Paws to students for extraordinary behavior and for following Library expectations.  (Coming soon: Students will learn ways to spend Positive Paws in the Library!)

Also a PBIS initiative, in grades 6-8, we create a Library Respect Agreement for each class. Respect Agreements are posted in the Library.    

I look forward to sharing my love of books and learning with your student and fostering a passion for reading!

Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.! 

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Martin Luther King, Jr.!

In January we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. 's Birthday (January 16) and we experience the civil rights journey in the United States. In February, we segue into Black History Month and dive into more stories that bear witness to BHM, which was established to celebrate, honor, and recognize famous African Americans and their contributions to society - In the DLAMP LIbrary, we also celebrate global black and brown history.    

What are we reading in the DLAMP Library on these non-fiction, historical fiction and fiction themes? Some of the stories we might be hearing are Happy Birthday Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo, Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport, I am Rosa Parks and  I am Harriet Tubman by Brad Meltzer, Rosa by Nikki Giovani, Steamboat school: inspired by a true story, St. Louis, Missouri 1847 by Deborah Hopkinson,  Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull, Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson, The Escape of Robert Smalls : A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery by Jehan Jones-Radgowski, Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness by Donna Janell Bowman, Coretta Scott King by Kathleen Krull, A Taste of Freedom: Gandhi and the Great Salt March by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller,  So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary D. Schmidt, She Persisted: Claudette Colvin by Lesa Cline-Ransome and Chelsea Clinton, The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh, Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved APOLLO 13 by Helaine Becker, Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly,  Ghost and Patina by Jason Reynolds, The Land and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon just to name a few.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day; January 27, 2024

“The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution.” - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

In the DLAMP Library, we marked this day by sharing non-fiction and historical fiction is stories like Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, Anne Frank: The Girl Heard Around the World by Linda Elovitz Marshall, Irena's children : a true story of courage adapted by Mary Cronk Frank, and others.