March 30, 2020: Science and technology

3/28/2020

This week's theme is science and technology, including a little bit of inventing. This is always the time of year we do science in the library to support the science fair. It's also timely because of spring and Earth Day (April 22).

There are science-themed videotaped book readings on the Weekly Readalouds page of this site. If you click the little "cc" at the bottom of the video-player screen, captioning is displayed that you can read as the video plays.

I hope you're having success with ebooks! The books shown below are available through the County of LA system, of which the Manhattan Beach public library is a part. Click on the image below to go to that book's ebook record, where you can check that book out to read digitally.

I have enjoyed reading aloud to classes via Zoom! And the 5th-grade book club got together over Zoom this past week--so nice to see everyone and begin our new book, Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire, by John August. I've been pleased to help those parents who have emailed. Please do get in touch if there's anything you need. I think PK's parents, teachers, and students are extraordinary all the time, but it's never been more apparent than it is now. Three cheers for you!

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What's Ms. Barbara reading?

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell

Worth repeating:

His eyes are soft. “Do you know why I became a librarian?”
I wait for him to tell me, because of course I don’t.
“Dewey,” he says. “As in the decimal system.”
I’m not sure if he’s joking or not, but he continues, “I like order. I like organization. The idea of all the information in the world, all organized, everything in its place—I like that idea.”
He clears his throat. “But I’ve been doing this job for a long time. And the thing I’ve learned is that stories aren’t about order and organization. They’re about feelings. And the feelings don’t always make sense. See, stories are like …” He pauses, brow furrowing, then nods, satisfied in finding the right comparison: “Water. Like rain. We can hold them tight, but they always slip through our fingers.”
I try to hide my shock. Joe doesn’t seem like the poetic type.
His caterpillar eyebrows knit together. “That can be scary. But remember that water gives us life. It connects continents. It connects people. And in quiet moments, when the water’s still, sometimes we can see our own reflection.”

--From When You Trap a Tiger, by Tae Heller, winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal

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