The Library Gingerbread Man...

This week in the Library, we are working on our "Dewey" skills!  It's FUN when we do it with Dotti Enderle''s The Library Gingerbread Man!

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Shel Silverstein

It's Shel Silverstein's birthday this week (September 25) so I thought it would be fun to celebrate his greatness by reading a few of his most famous poems from...

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Did you know that Shel wrote SONGS?  Famous ones, too!  I wasn't shocked (he was quite the talented man,) but I was surprised.  Check out his super great website HERE, it's chocked full of fun things to do, and you can get to know Shel even better than you think you do!

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Our "book of the week"continues our DOT theme from last week...

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This is such a fun book!  Younger children will think you are MAGIC!  

(It's a fun lesson in following directions, too!)

International "Dot Day!"

I love Peter Reynolds!

Seriously! He's got to be one of the most talented men on the planet! I am in love with each and every book he has written/illustrated!  

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International Dot Day is Saturday September 15th...go to the International Dot Day website to get more information, or to register to participate.  Riverview is REGISTERED!!

UPDATE:

After we read the book The Dot during library time, our art teacher Mrs. Quiroz had the students draw their very own dot... 

Aren't these spectacular?  I think my favorite one is the "singing" dot =)

Maybe you should design your OWN dot!  Thanks Peter for a great week celebrating The Dot, we have made our mark, now we will see where it takes us!

WE DID IT!! GO OTTERS!!

I just wanted to share some fun that we've been having at Riverview...

All summer we've been reading for Scholastic's "Read for the World Record" Challenge, and we have blown our own socks off!

The challenge started May 1st, and ran through August 31st, and during that time the students read, and read, and READ!! More minutes were read, than were logged I'm sure, but all the same the students did SUCH a great job, that Riverview was ranked FIRST in the state of Utah, and FOURTEENTH in the WORLD!  (Just got a call from Scholastic, and it's official!  Out of the 4,446 schools worldwide that participated, Riverview is ranked 14th!) The final tally's will be posted by Scholastic in a couple of weeks, and we are excited to see the FINAL totals.  The top 20 schools get their name in the Scholastic Book of World Records, 2013.  Yay us!! (flags in the pic below represent the top 20 schools =)

Just. Right. Books.

We talk about this all the time, how to choose a "just right book." This week we are reading a super cute story ...

 

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On her way to school, and late, Goldisocks takes a short-cut through the woods... (short-cuts through the forest are NEVER good, doesn't she know that??) and she stumbles upon a cute cottage made of books!  You will have to read the book for the rest of the story, but let's just say it all turns out "just right."  Goldisocks tells us about the 5 Finger Rule and shares other ways to help us choose "just right books."  Check it out for yourself! 

WHAT?

Can. You. Believe. It?

Did your summer go as quickly as mine did? Holy smokes!

Hope you are ready for this...we've got some GREAT things happening this year!

FIRST, an update on our Scholastic "Read for the World Record" Challenge... we are 35th in the ENTIRE WORLD!!  First in the state of Utah!  Woohoo!  Nice work, otters!  Now to get into the top 20... keep reading!  I have more minutes to record, that students have been bringing to me at school, so hopefully when those get connected to our school, our total minutes will JUMP!  I am SO very proud of all of you!  Keep up the good work!

SECOND, did i mention we've got some GREAT things happening this year?  Well, we do!  And you will just need to find out what they are next week at library time =)  see you SOON!