Elementary School Programs

• District 204 Elementary Technology Curriculum

• Reading Incentive Programs
  Encouraging reading for pleasure is a goal of all District #204 library media centers. As a means to this end, each school promotes reading using a variety of reading incentive programs. Individual schools create, direct, and support their own reading promotions. Go to individual school LMC websites to see what programs are provided at each school.
  
  Elementary LMCs in District #204 also provide some of the following reading incentive programs:

  • Accelerated Reader

  • Battle of the Books

  • Reading Counts

  • Rebecca Caudill

  • Great America 600 Minutes

  • Kane County Cougars

• Summer Library
  Summer library is held in District #204 schools that are open for summer school. Many of our students avail themselves of this opportunity as they read their way through the summer months.

• Volunteer Opportunities
  The LMC staff at each building actively recruits and trains many parents to assist in a variety of ways. Volunteers enable us to utilize the LMC facility to its fullest extent. It is an excellent way for parents to become involved in the educational community. Contact the LMC Director in your school if you would like to be a LMC volunteer.

  • Suggested Volunteer Activities

  • assist children in book selection

  • assist individual students or small groups in research

  • assist students at computers

  • assist teachers with large group research activities

  • check and read shelves

  • check-in books

  • cut out letters on the lettering machine

  • develop displays

  • enter data 

  • shelve books

  • special projects

  • Xerox

• Young Author Program
  The Young Author Program is one way writing is celebrated in District #204. Students in kindergarten through eighth grade are encouraged to participate in this program. Its culmination is in conjunction with the Illinois Young Authors Conference in Normal at Illinois State University. A representative from each school is selected to attend. The purpose of the conference is to support classroom teachers in their efforts to encourage and improve students' abilities in writing, reading, listening and sharing, and to recognize the accomplishments of young authors.