VSAA Theme updates
“The World of Play”
VSAA’s featured art form this year is theatre. After a long year spent in quarantine last year, our theme “The World of Play” invites you to renew yourself through curiosity, imagination, and play. Every day we witness the year’s artistic principle of “transformation” as we watch our new building change in front of our eyes.
Let reading play a role in your own process of play and transformation!
Library News
Reading and Mental Health
Feeling stressed? Read a book! Multiple studies have shown that reading can boost your mental health. Books make your stress go down by reducing your heart rate, easing muscle tension, and providing an escape. Storytelling improves feelings of connectedness, and novels may help to increase our empathy for others. If adulting makes you anxious, read [...]
Listen to audio books on your Chromebook
Do you like audio books? If you have a library card with Fort Vancouver Regional Library, you can check out audio books for free and listen to them at home on your Chromebook. Visit libbyapp.com and have your library card number ready. You can link the app with your card and even place audio books [...]
Visit the Past to Understand the Present
In Austin Kleon’s book Keep Going, he advises readers to “read old books…almost every problem you have has probably been written about by some other human living hundreds if not thousands of years before you.” If you’re feeling alone or blue about current affairs, getting to know an author from long ago can help you [...]
Former VSAA teacher featured in NY Times
Former VSAA teacher Angela Haseltine Pozzi founded a nonprofit association called Washed Ashore that collects garbage washed up on the Oregon coast and turns it into art. The nonprofit has so much demand for their work--art, cleanup, and curriculum--that they can't keep up. Find out more
Talk to the librarian
Angela Vahsholtz-Andersen
Teacher librarian
360-313-4600 | email
How Does the Library Work During 1st Semester?
You are welcome to visit the library, browse and check out books before and after school every day. You may also visit during passing periods to grab a book quickly or let Mrs. VA know a title or book you would like. She will check it out to you and email you when it is ready.
To help you with your browsing, a cart will feature titles related to a new topic each month. You are welcome to check out any title you see that looks interesting.
We will be open with regular hours once the new addition is finished and the library is no longer used as a lunchroom or a classroom. This should be sometime after winter break.
Need help? Ask the library staff!
Services we provide:
- Chromebook and other technical assistance
- Co-teaching (from planning to implementation and even assessing)
- Resource searches
- Individual and whole class lessons about information literacy
- Book recommendations
- Games, small toys and playing cards to cheer you up
Helpful links
Spooky Scary Recommendations! Visit the special cart in the library for these titles and more:
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
The House of Dies Drear
by Virginia Hamilton
An African-American family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor’s dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Online Resources
Gale
Gale OneFile
World Book
Encyclopedia
Grammarly
Tools to improve writing
MLA Citation Maker
Works cited creation
Merriam-Webster
Dictionary & thesaurus
Washington State Library
Research & collections
