Create Your Own Story @ Your Library

                                            

This is the slogan for National Library Week, which will begin on April 10th -16th. In fact the whole month of April is School Library Month!! During this month we will be having fun in the library with different activities and contests to help celebrate with libraries across the country and say 'YEAH  For OUR LIBRARIES'!

    Our new order of Fiction books are arriving. To give you the opportunity to see our new collection, stop by the library on the dates shown below to take a peek and to watch some exciting book trailers made by our students.

                              Bagels and Books OR Snacks and Stories

Klein:  April 11th 3:10 pm
Clark:  April 18th 3:30 pm
Rolling Ridge: April 29th-  Two preview times to meet your needs.  8:15 and 3:50      Have your picture taken reading your favorite book ( This will be used for an upcoming contest for Children's Book Week in May ). Enter your name in our prize drawing. Hope you can join us.

Check out this web page for Cool Tools For Teachers:  Cool Tools  a great resource with hundreds of ideas and templates.


Did you know that Barnes and Noble has a new online story each month?  Check out this link to see the current online story.   Barnes and Noble Online Story

April is.....

     April 1-  Reading is Funny Day

     April 2-  World Autism Awareness Day

     April 6-   National Day of Hope

     April 12- National Library Workers Day

     April 21- Kindergarten Day

     April 22- National Jelly Bean Day

     April 27-  Administrative Professionals Day

     April 28- Poem in your Pocket Day

For FUN....  Check out   Jelly Belly  For fun facts about those famous BEANS.....

Professional reading....  Reversing Readicide

"Strong School Libraries Build Life Long Learners" 

 

March Right In and Grab a Great Book..

 Spring is supposed to be around the corner. Perhaps it will appear when we least expect it. That is what happens sometimes when I try to find the "Just Right book". The book that I least expect to like, ends up being a great book!!  The old saying is that "you should not judge a book by it's cover", but really, I believe that most of us do! In working with your students I find that most either have a genre or author in mind. If they don't it is all in the selling of a book. The publishers have taken a tip or two from the media departments and have helped the illustrators and authors create  "catchy" titles and designs for the covers. I encourage our students to look at the covers, (front and back) closely and to open the book up to the first page or so and read to see if the lead is something they would like. Finding the "Just Right book" sometimes is not as easy as one thinks.   

What book are you reading this month?  Post it here

I'm reading.......  The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains    by Nicholas Carr


"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."   Alvin Toffler



Video of Author and Illustrator Peter Catalanotto visits Rolling Ridge