The younger grades will be hearing stories this week related to Saint Patrick's Day, as well as a nonfiction book about the holiday, St. Patrick's Day, by Gail Gibbons. Soon enough most children become too busy to look for leprechauns. I figure we might as well all enjoy it while there's still time to do so. Grade 4 will be reacquainting themselves with the nonfiction section and the Dewey Decimal System as we read You Can't Use Your Brain If You're a Jellyfish (new in our library) in honor of Brain Awareness Week. Grade 5 has been using much of their library time to attain places in the Catalog Search Hall of Fame, so this week, we are reading Queen of the Falls, a new book by Chris Van Allsburg, the popular picture book author and illustrator of such books as Polar Express and Jumanji. This continues our observance of Women's History Month, showing the ways in which being a woman--and in particular an older woman--motivated Annie Edson Taylor to carry out the daring stunt of going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Library events coming up: 4th-grade book club meets this Friday at lunch recess to discuss Marley: A Dog Like No Other, by John Grogan, and to choose a new book. 5th-grade book club meets next Friday, March 23, to discuss the Emerald Atlas, by John Stephens, and to choose a new book.
5th-graders who have completed all four catalog search questions are entering the library's "Catalog Search Hall of Fame" in great numbers--so far sixty-six students have their names up on the Hall of Fame charts! Students who complete all four catalog search questions by 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 15, will receive a frozen fruit bar from the library on Friday, March 16, at 2:45. Catalog search questions are available from the library.
I hope to have the Scholastic flyers out next week, but the library has recently received an order of new books, so some of my time will be going into cataloging and covering those. A big shout-out to Arita Wong and Monica Waki, both of whom help cover our new books so they can go onto the shelves and into the students' hands! Arita and Monica, your help is greatly appreciated, as it that of the nearly thirty volunteers who assist in the library week after week! I truly couldn't do it without you all, so thanks!
Library events coming up: 4th-grade book club meets this Friday at lunch recess to discuss Marley: A Dog Like No Other, by John Grogan, and to choose a new book. 5th-grade book club meets next Friday, March 23, to discuss the Emerald Atlas, by John Stephens, and to choose a new book.
5th-graders who have completed all four catalog search questions are entering the library's "Catalog Search Hall of Fame" in great numbers--so far sixty-six students have their names up on the Hall of Fame charts! Students who complete all four catalog search questions by 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 15, will receive a frozen fruit bar from the library on Friday, March 16, at 2:45. Catalog search questions are available from the library.
I hope to have the Scholastic flyers out next week, but the library has recently received an order of new books, so some of my time will be going into cataloging and covering those. A big shout-out to Arita Wong and Monica Waki, both of whom help cover our new books so they can go onto the shelves and into the students' hands! Arita and Monica, your help is greatly appreciated, as it that of the nearly thirty volunteers who assist in the library week after week! I truly couldn't do it without you all, so thanks!
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