Veterans Day at the Library
As November begins, we look forward to Veterans Day on November 11, a time to help students understand...
Allison Peters Jensen
Celebrating the Freedom to Read
Librarians and educators nationwide marked National Banned Books Week from September 22-28, 2024. This important week highlights the...
Encouraging a Love for Reading at Home: A Caregiver’s Guide
As we embark on a new school year, the Library Department is enthusiastic about two goals aimed at...
Reading Rocks!
Reading is a great way to discover, and in our libraries, we feed the curiosity of Colorado Academy’s...
Colorado Academy Libraries By the Numbers, 2022-23
A school library is like the Bat Cave: it’s a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source...
Empathy, Kindness, and Baseball
It was 1:10 p.m. on a recent B day, and a Second Grade class was entering the Lower...
The Power of Effective Questions
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to...
Inquiring Minds Want to Know…
Colorado Academy librarians frequently discuss the following questions with students, teachers, parents, and visitors. How many books are...
The Letter-Writing Cure
Dear Colorado Academy Community, Happy New Year! The Library Department hopes that you enjoyed the holiday break with...
Do We Dewey? Yes We Do!
Librarians are frequently asked, “So, do you still use the Dewey Decimal System, ha ha ha?” Honestly, this...
National Young Readers Week, November 14-18, 2022
“The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more...
In their ‘Own Voices’
Behind the scenes in the library world, many book professionals (CA Librarians included) check regularly on data from...
A back-to-school Q&A with CA Librarians!
Welcome back to school, Colorado Academy community! The CA Library Team is excited to begin the year with...
Summer Break and reading!
It’s the end of the year, and the Colorado Academy libraries are wrapping up the school year and...
On a quest for Antarctica
In the Colorado Academy Lower School Library, Second Graders recently started a new unit called “Tales From Around...
First Graders study the work of Christian Robinson
In December, First Grade students began reading and studying books by Christian Robinson. Students are learning about how...
Nourishing reads
I’d like to think that, if you looked up the word “nourish” in the dictionary, you would find...
What’s on display?
Colorado Academy’s two campus libraries aim to highlight authors, illustrators, and events that will continually encourage our students...
Librarians share their favorite summer reads (for adults)!
Conversations about books happen all the time in the Colorado Academy community, and it is one of the...
Raether Library hosts Camp NaNoWriMo
Every Tuesday in April, Raether Library Assistant Becci Marzonie hosted 32 Middle and Upper School students for Camp...
The library as a garden
While snow is still on the agenda for the next several weeks, I can’t help but look ahead...