Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Coooooool Sports Books

Wow! It's been a busy time in the library! I've been trying to do some reading but unfortunately haven't gotten a whole lot in. I did the time to look through some really neat sports books. There are four in this series. One of them that we have in every library is Swish!As you can tell from the picture, this book is about baseball. Wait, no!! It's about basketball!!! The pictures inside this book are real action photographs that will really grab your attention. There are all kinds of cool facts about the sport and even some about specific players. I bet you will really like this! We also have Touchdown in our libraries. (I bet you can guess what sport that's about.)

One last reminder:
This is the last week for library check out.
All library materials are due back to the library next Wednesday, May 26.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Last night I read a new book by Kathryn Erskine called Mockingbird. This is a great book for my 4th and 5th grade readers. Caitlyn just had her older brother, Devon, die. She is trying to understand what life will be like without him. It is hard for her though because Devon always told her what was ok and not ok to do out in public. Caitlyn has Asperger's syndrome and sees things in black and white. There is always a right answer and a wrong answer. Anything in between is very confusing. She is very straight forward and honest, which sometimes makes it hard for other people to understand her.
This book is worth your time to read!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

National Library Week!

Ladies and gentlemen~
This past week was National Library Week! Every school did a phenomenal job of celebrating! Many students won "Lucky Day" prizes. How, you ask? Hundreds of books in each library were marked as Lucky Day books but you couldn't tell by looking. Students found out when they brought their books up for check out. If they had selected a Lucky Day book, they were able to choose a prize from the prize bucket. Congratulations to all of our winners!

The other big event was "Read a Tee Day". Lincoln had theirs on Wednesday and everyone else was on Friday. Students and staff were to wear t-shirts to school that had words on them for other people to read. This went over very well and we had a very high participation rate! Classes with the highest participation at each school won a popsicle party from the library. The winners were:

At Lincoln - Mrs. Oberstadt's and Mr. Lemiesz's classes
At Parkview - Mr. Laufenberg, Miss Tipler, Mrs. Sanderfoot, Ms. Anderson, and Mrs. Jossie's classrooms
At Readfield - Mr. Shea, Mr. Wegner, and Mrs. Pelot's rooms
At Sugar Bush - Mr. Boushele's room

Congratulations to all and thank you for a wonderful National Library Week!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Time to gear up!

Next week is...

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK!

Time to get ready! We are going to be doing some things in the library that you are going to want to be a part of! Here's a hint -> If you go shopping this week, you might want to get a new t-shirt that has words on it!

Oooo.... see you next week!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

3,856 Story Possibilities?! Really?!

Oh my goodness! I am so excited right now!! I just read what could possibly be THE coolest book I have seen in a loooong time. It's called Meanwhile by Jason Shiga. Have you ever read a Choose Your Own Adventure book? It's sort of like that. It's a graphic novel that leads you around the book. You could be reading on the first page and have to go to the last page next. Then a middle page, then a back page, then a front page... It's exciting just to flip the pages!

Oh, I guess I should tell you what it's about, huh? Well, it's a boy who starts out in an ice cream shop. From there, you have to pick what flavor ice cream he eats. Eventually it leads to an evil scientist. From there, there are 3,856 possible endings so I really can't tell you any more. You have to choose how the story goes.

Honestly? You NEED to check this book out! It's at all four libraries! I loved it!

Here's a sketch of what one of the inside pages looks like before it was published: (Picture from: http://shigabooks.com/interactive/meanwhile/pages/55.gif)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

New Non-Fiction titles!

All four elementary libraries have just gotten in a whole bunch of new non-fiction titles! Non-fiction books are books that are about true things.




Some of the new books we got are:
- Books about the Internet
- Giant
- Monsters
- Dragons
- Wisconsin animals
- Math books
- Simple machines
- Food Pyramid
- and sooo many more!

Come in the library and check one (or three) out today!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Dr. Seuss Day!

This year was the 20th anniversay of Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss.

We celebrated by drawing pictures of places we would go and submitted them to the library. They all got hung up in the hallways. Have you seen them yet?

Leave a comment here about what you drew.