Our theme this week is trees and autumn, which begins on either September 22 or 23, depending on which website one consults. Grades K, 1, 2, and 4 are all hearing books about trees. On display in the library are so many beautiful books about trees--it was truly hard to choose among them which ones to read aloud. We even have some chapter-length fiction about trees, notably Regarding the Trees, by Kate Klise; Tree Girl, by T. A. Barron; and The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier (probably my favorite of the books I read over the past summer). There are also several books about Wangari Maathai, who is a leader in planting trees in Kenya to improve the land and promote economic stability for Kenyan women. Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. Also see The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families, by Susan Roth, which is about "Dr. Gordon Sato, a Japanese American cell biologist who made saltwater and desert land productive through the planting of mangrove trees in the tiny African country of Eritrea" (per the description in our catalog).
Grade 3 is starting to learn the Dewey Decimal System, the system by which public and school libraries organize nonfiction books. We will conclude this next week. Mrs. Hunt and Ms. Hooper's classes have moved to Wednesday this week, to keep all the third-graders on track with Dewey. TK and grade 5 do not visit the library this week as these classes come on Thursday and Friday, when we are off school this week.
Students in all grades are urged to submit a bookmark design for the County of Los Angeles Public Library bookmark contest. The theme this year is "Dream in Color" Contest forms are available in our library and school office; completed entries can be turned in at our library, school office, or any County of Los Angeles library. The due date for submissions is October 11 (returned to library branch) or October 4 (date by which entries must be mailed). This year (for the first time) designs may be in color! Forms can also be downloaded from the County of Los Angeles Public Library's website: Bookmark Contest.
Grade 3 is starting to learn the Dewey Decimal System, the system by which public and school libraries organize nonfiction books. We will conclude this next week. Mrs. Hunt and Ms. Hooper's classes have moved to Wednesday this week, to keep all the third-graders on track with Dewey. TK and grade 5 do not visit the library this week as these classes come on Thursday and Friday, when we are off school this week.
Students in all grades are urged to submit a bookmark design for the County of Los Angeles Public Library bookmark contest. The theme this year is "Dream in Color" Contest forms are available in our library and school office; completed entries can be turned in at our library, school office, or any County of Los Angeles library. The due date for submissions is October 11 (returned to library branch) or October 4 (date by which entries must be mailed). This year (for the first time) designs may be in color! Forms can also be downloaded from the County of Los Angeles Public Library's website: Bookmark Contest.
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