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At the first campus of the Capitol Hill Cluster School, the Peabody Library program aims to inspire students and families around the world of books - both fiction & nonfiction - and support our staff with the resources they need for classroom instruction.
Operating as usual
24/06/2023
Thrilled to work with kindergarten parent and muralist
and the Literacy Committee to bring the youthful joy of nursery rhymes back to the walls of Peabody! Mr. Williams and his team of talented artists have completed three illustrations with more to come in the fall! Shortly after their graduation ceremony, rising first graders left their legacy handprints on these first works.
22/06/2023
So fun to spend the last bedtime of the school year reading two of my all-time favorite stories with nearly 30 of our students in PJ’s and clutching their stuffies! Video conferencing comes in handy for magical moments like these! Happy last day of school to our students and many thanks to all for 17 amazing years! I’ll miss you! Love and happy reading, Ms. Bloom
11/06/2023
Wow! What a show put on led by with SWS and Watkins ES participation too! Top notch singing, dancing and acting plus a moving post-finale video tribute to the soon-to-be 8th grade graduates! Go Panthers!
09/06/2023
You must see this show! Get your tickets for SpongeBob the Musical with your favorite characters & great music! Four shows this weekend June 9-11 by the talented Stuart Hobson Drama Players with cameos from Watkins ES students. Four shows this weekend: Friday 6:30pm, Saturday 1pm and 6:30pm, and Sunday 3pm. Get your tickets here: tinyurl.com /shms-drama
18/05/2023
Had a great first session of our caregiver/student kindergarten chapter book club featuring “Jasmine Toguchi Mochi Queen by . Perfect title during Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Our mochi queen and king participants introduced themselves and shared the number of siblings & cousins they have to echo that theme from the story; completed a character map; brainstormed special foods their families like to cook; and watched a video showing how mochi is made! Can’t wait for Session 2!
03/04/2023
It’s time for Peabody’s Spring Scholastic Book Fair! We are open 8-9am and 3-6pm all week (5:30pm on Friday). Happy reading Peabody Panthers!
30/03/2023
Students are springing into POET-TREE with some beautiful rhyming flowers and leaves! Check out how well our early childhood Peabody writers can rhyme and write! Let’s keep growing our gorgeous tree! Go Panthers!
28/03/2023
It’s time to SPRING INTO POET-TREE at Peabody! April is National Poetry Month and Peabody Panthers are celebrating with an interactive “POET-TREE” display on our First Floor Lobby bulletin board. Students and caregivers should have fun thinking up and writing RHYMING WORDS on as many provided flowers and leaves as they’d like! Let’s ZING with SPRING! It’s TIME to RHYME!
30/01/2023
After 3 weeks into our Peabody “Winter Zoo-tastic Reading Challenge” our readers have read over 2,000 books! We are well on our way to make our 8,000 book goal by Read Across America Day on March 2nd! As we read more, our two DC zoo lions are filling up with colors! Keep up the great reading Panthers!
17/01/2023
After the first week of our “Winter Zoo-tastic Reading Challenge” our readers have read over 700 books! We are well on our way to making our 8,000 book goal. As we read more our two DC zoo lions are starting to fill up with colors! Keep up the great reading Peabody Panthers!
13/01/2023
What fun it was to join over 45 students for virtual bedtime stories! Tonight was the first of four virtual PJ story times we’ll do during our Winter Zoo-tastic Reading Challenge! Our two animal books this evening - one nonfiction and one fiction- can be counted for all those readers towards our 8,000 book goal in 8 weeks! Go Panther readers!!
14/10/2022
So thrilled to assist Ms. Aubryn and parent volunteers with three FoodPrints classes today with PreK & K students! They shared favorite fruits & veggies, discussed and tasted 3 apple varieties, and toured our edible and habitat gardens. We even spotted a grasshopper and an Orb Weaver spider!!
13/10/2022
So fun to see where students “fall with a good book” on our Fall Reading board! Thanks to families for sharing pictures of lots of fun and cozy reading you enjoy day in and out!
02/09/2022
No better way to start off a year in an early childhood library than by talking about taking good care of books! The kindergarten students came up with great reasons to care for books and then practiced the “Peabody Way” of turning pages: lift the top corner; slide a flat hand under the page; slowly turn the page. Go Peabody Panthers!
31/08/2022
The Literacy Team is getting ready to welcome PreK students tomorrow and we invite EVERYONE to share photos for our Fall Reading Board, “Where do you and a good book fall?” We can’t wait to see all the fun, cozy & even crazy places our students LOVE to read a good book!
24/08/2022
So invigorating to finally attend a professional development day of training with my fellow DCPS librarians today at the gorgeously renovated MLK Memorial Library! I loved communing with fellow librarians and touring the amazing new facility!
23/06/2022
So fun to welcome children’s librarian Erin Bush from NE branch today to host assemblies with students about their “Discover Summer” reading program! Cool activity “game board” flyer went home today! We sang, read a story and moved our bodies to spell R-E-A-D! Happy summer reading Peabody Panthers!
23/06/2022
I am so proud and excited to be a part of the Equity Team as we continue to plan our anti-racist curriculum initiative for next year and beyond! Thanks to and their generous grant, our books have arrived, and thanks to and our leadership we have the support and inspiration to plunge forward!