Read for the World Record...New Record!

This summer we once again, participated in Scholastic's Read for the World Record! reading challenge! Once again we made it to the TOP 20 in the WORLD! We also placed FIRST in the state of Utah! Amazing job Otters!!

Our school goal was to read 1,000,000 minutes over the summer - not only did we make our goal, we surpassed it! We read 1,495,565 minutes! This year was more difficult than last year... the winning school read over 6,000,000 minutes! Next year we will really have to step it up, but for right now we are celebrating!

Congratulations Otters!!
New record: 176,438,473 minutes world wide

Our Library Dragon

 

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Such a fun story! Do we have a dragon in our library? 

I hope not! My job is not to "guard the books," but to teach YOU to guard the books while you have them checked out. To enjoy them AND keep them safe. Media Center manner #3, Be Responsible, right? Be responsible with the library books you have checked out.  Nope, no dragon here in OUR library... =)

Really?

I am in SHOCK. Seriously... is summer over?

For me it is =( but YOU have ONE. MORE. WEEK. That's it? Isn't that crazy? Can you tell my summer just FLEW by? Hope you've had a great one, I sure did!

It's always nice to have a break from school, and it's ALWAYS great to come back! We have some super fun things in store this year, and I can't WAIT to get started!

We will chat all about our summer adventures the first week of school, I have some fun things to update you all on... see you soon!!

In Honor of Earth Day-This Week in the Library

It's Earth Day today! In honor of this great day, and wonderful earth, here's what we are reading this week...

 

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I LOVE Peter Brown's books! We have several copies of his books here in our library, he's a favorite around here! Children Make Terrible Pets was a Beehive Nominated book this last year!

 

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This is one of my favorite illustrations from The Curious Garden, I wonder why...

I'm all ready to plant MY garden... how about you??

Also, at the end of the story, there is an author's note that mentions The High Line in New York City... (which I believe was the inspiration for this story) 

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Isn't it beautiful!! I'm traveling to New York City in June, and this is DEFINITELY on my list of things to see. I can't wait!!

It's National Library Week!

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We are celebrating National Library Week this week, with a fun activity! You can even do this at home! We are playing musical chairs (with a twist...) we've set out enough chairs for everyone (we don't want ANYONE left out) and on each chair is a book. We've selected books that one might not normally take off the shelves and look at/check out. They are from all sections in our library, some picture books, some non-fiction books, and a few fiction books. 

When the music starts, the students walk around the chairs, and when the music stops, they sit in the nearest chair and have several minutes to look at and read the book on that chair. We move several times (as our library time allows) and then discuss the different books we've had the opportunity to look at. It's been SO much fun to hear from the students who were surprised that they actually enjoyed looking at books they wouldn't have normally looked at. Several even wanted to check them out! =) 

It's been a great way to expose students to some new and exciting reading material.

Happy National Library Week!

 

Scholastic Read for the World Record!

 We will be participating again this summer in Scholastic's "Read for the World Record" challenge! Do you remember how fantastic we were last summer? We were FIRST in the state of Utah, and 14th in the WORLD!! Pretty impressive! We plan on doing at least that this summer...

 

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Pre-registration begins today, and the challenge begins May 6th! 

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last years record:

 and Riverview read 884,329 of those minutes! Our goal this year is to read OVER 1 MILLION MINUTES as a school! I know we can do it!!
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From the Scholastic website...

Critical Facts About Summer Reading

* Learning or reading skill losses during the summer months are cumulative. By the time a struggling reader reaches middle school, summer reading loss has accumulated to a two-year lag in reading achievement. 

*  It is estimated that the “Summer Slide” accounts for as much as 85% of the reading achievement gap between lower income students and their middle-and upper-income peers. 

* 3rd graders who can’t read on grade level are four times less likely to graduate by age 18 than a proficient reader. 

* Studies show that making sure there are always interesting books at home can increase the likelihood of a child being a frequent reader.

Happy Spring Break!!

We've got a WHOLE WEEK off school!  What shall we do...? You better be READING! =)

Library Mouse

We have a mouse in our library!!!

And he's SO cute, don't you think?

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We've started writing our own stories as well, just like cute Sam...

 

and we have our very own library mouse, although no one has seen him yet...

(you can get your very own "mouse hole" HERE)

The best part? There are MORE Library Mouse books for us to read!!

Here Come the Girl Scouts!

This week in the Library...

pretty sure you've seen the Girl Scouts out in full force selling their famous cookies - when I saw them, I was reminded of this wonderful book:

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Juliette Gordon Low was quite a woman! CLICK HERE for more information on her, and how the Girl Scouts came to be... it's very cool!

Beehive Book Award Nominees for 2013-14

CLAU has announced the nominees for next years Beehive Book Award... HERE!

Check them out!!

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Dr. Seuss Week!

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 Just like our Cat in the Hat above, we are tired! It's been a fun and crazy week!

Read-a-thon

I won't be able to attend the read-a-thon today =( but I still wanted to share one of my favorite books... (this is NOT a professional video =)

Last day...

Tomorrow is the last day of our Scholastic Book Fair! If you haven't had the chance to stop by, you can still come tonight (until 8:00 pm) or tomorrow after school (open until 4:00 pm) Our next book fair will be in May, to gear up for our summer reading! We will be participating in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge AGAIN this year (because we were so spectacular last year...)

If you are not able to make it to the book fair, but would still like to purchase books for your home library or for a class library here at school, you can order from our online fair until February 15th! Your order will be send to our school, where you can pick it up after the 15th.

Many thanks to those who have come and supported our book fair! Every sale benefits our library, and we are SO grateful for your support! Keep reading!!

The Book Fair is Coming!!

The book fair is coming!! Next week is our "spring" book fair! I wish it actually felt like spring outside... =)

If you can't wait to shop, or you have family outside of the area that would like to shop, you can visit our ONLINE BOOK FAIR and shop! Books will be shipped to our school after the book fair is finished, and the online book fair is closed.

2013 Book Awards

2013 Book Awards were announced this morning!! 

Click on the link to view the list in it's entirety, but we've got most of the winners here in our library!

Caldecott Award (illustration)

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

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Newbery Award

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

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Theodore Geisel Award

The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year. 

 

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Congratulations to all the winners!

Our Library Mouse

We have a new resident in our library...

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I can't WAIT to see what happens in our library now... stay tuned!

It's COLD Outside!

It is SO VERY COLD outside!  This winter stuff is NO FUN! It's too cold to even go outside and enjoy the snow (not that I enjoy the snow, I'm not a fan of winter) BUT, the cold DID remind me of a story... imagine that!

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Froggy is SO excited to get out to play in the snow that he keeps forgetting some VERY important items...

We also looked up frogs in our non-fiction section (597) and learned that frogs actually HIBERNATE in the winter! Wouldn't that be nice? =) we could skip all this cold if we just slept through winter! I think that's a great idea! We also looked at Nic Bishop Frogs and learned that not all frogs are green... this is a super cool book, and the pictures are amazing!!

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We are introducing another of our Beehive Book Award nominees this week! Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator!, by Mo Willems. This is a darling book about friendship & silliness, I love this story!

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