Golden Apple Award: Melissa Cairns, Fairyland Elementary
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, GA, (WDEF) – Libraries are great places to learn! Melissa Cairns is an expert an instilling a lifelong love of literature in her students are Fairyland Elementary. She is great at finding just the right book for each child. Let’s see how she does it in this week’s Golden Apple Award.
“Miss Cairns has been the media specialist at Fairland School for 20 plus years. She knows every student by first and last name. She partners with our teachers. She provides a lot of fun, engaging activities for our students. In addition to providing and talking to them about just write books,” said Dr. Lisa Edwards, the Principal at Fairyland Elementary.
“Hey, Miss Karen, she loves reading. She loves books. She loves encouraging our students here at school to love reading. And she does such a great job with them. Always makes reading fun for our students,” added Troy Green, the Assistant Principal and Teacher at Fairyland Elementary.
“I have been in the field of education for about 22 years, and what keeps me coming in the doors every day is just our wonderful kids, and the fact that I can be a small part of their lives and learning, with book joy, especially in the capacity of a library where I can watch them learn and grow over the years is a really special and unique. So,they definitely keep me coming in the door every day,” said Melissa Cairns, the Librarian at Fairyland Elementary.
“Miss Cairns is an incredible teacher librarian who instills a love of learning in every child who enters her classroom. Her library is a true classroom. She is a huge part of what makes Fairyland amazing, place to learn and grow,” said Edwards.
When asked why she became a librarian, Ms. Cairns says, “I had several really great, English teachers in high school. That formed my, love of words. I love to write as well. So, they encouraged me in my writing. My mom as well, she taught me how to read at two and a half. So she was my, first teacher. I had memorized a mother goose nursery rhyme book, and she decided it was time for me to learn how to read. So we should have known then that I might have been in, a book kind of position in education. It’s just never a dull moment. And I love that about young kids. You never know where our conversation they’re going to go, what connections they’re going to make with great books, what stories they’re going to share. It just as a source of joy. I mean, it’s unexpected. You definitely learn how to go with the flow and be flexible, but it’s a unique brand of joy that keeps me young and on my toes.”
