Grade 1 students at Claude E. Garton receive lending library
Superior Collegiate and Vocational Institute (CVI) students Julia Isbester and Ava Wintermute have built a lending library for Grade 1 students at Claude E. Garton Public School.
Isbester, in grade 12, and Wintermute, in grade 11, spent more than one month building the little library in Superior CVI’s workshop under the guidance of construction teacher Chris Caccamo.
The lending library is meant to teach roles and responsibilities to the first graders.
The new library earned positive reactions from the first graders.
“We bring books to put in and switch out every day,” explained grade 1 student Lauren Labelle. “It’s really cute.”
Fellow first grader Lucas Packota dressed up for the occasion. He loved the details on the library: “I like that the wood folds out for extra books,” he observed.
Wintermute said it was “great to see the kids’ reactions and just how excited they were about it.”
Isbester is glad that the library will help the kids learn to read. “It’s definitely nice to see that I can help other kids in the community get further with their education, and want to read, and have something push them to want to read books and want to share books with their friends.”
She hopes the library will help the students read books they otherwise would not come across.
