Why Our Book Fair Is Important To Our Library?

This week we will be hosting our book fair in the Wildwoods Gym.  The book fair will be open every day before and after school and during parent/teacher conferences.   This is a great way to get a jump on Christmas shopping and a great way to introduce some new books to your child's home library.  We also have teacher wish book baskets set up for you to see what books your child's teacher would love to add to their classroom library.  Please check them out and think about donating to their class.  

This fair is so important to our school library because it is our main fundraiser for our Mountain Meadow Media Center!  We are short on many non-fiction titles and young adult fiction books.  If we meet our goal of $3000 we can receive 25% of the total in cash to buy our much needed books.  

If you can't make it to the fair, you can always click on the following link and order online.  The orders will be shipped to our school and given to your student.  If it is a gift we can keep them for you until you have time to pick them up.  

See you at the fair!  Thank you so much for your support!

Digital Citizen Experts

Our final Digital Citizenship Posters are on our Media Center Walls.  The Alders and Cedars evaluated each other's work and learned the importance of all our digital citizenship rules.  

Thank you to all who came out to our parent night.  It is so important that we help our children navigate the wide world of the internet.  To the right of this post, I have included three links that are great resources for parents to use when having conversations with your child about their time on the internet.  I believe it's a very important issue that often gets ignored because we simply don't know where to begin.  We are charting new waters as we try to parent in the cyber domain.  There are great videos, a digital glossary,  real life testimonials, and a list of age appropriate apps.  

Wrapping Up...

We are wrapping up our digital citizenship projects this week.  The Alders and Cedars have come up with inspiring ways to stay safe on the internet.  I have been pleased to see how well they are working as a team to organize their thoughts and ideas.    The creativity of coming up with their own slogans and logos has been fun to watch.  Please be watching for their posters going up along our media center's walls.  

The Clarkia are well on their way in becoming accurate typist.  This week they took their first "timed" test.  We stressed the importance of accuracy and proper form.  I told the Clarkia that I was not interested in their speed at this time, that will come with increased practice.  We are focusing on accuracy and proper finger placement.  

In our Trillium library class we are discovering the fiction and nonfiction genre.  They are sorting notecards that have snippets of either a fiction or nonfiction story into the right genre.  We will continue to practice this throughout the year.

In our Huckleberry and Clarkia library classes we are learning the importance of the parts of a book.  Ask your student if they can find the copyright date or "birthdate".  They were very thorough in pointing out how old their books were to me.  The Clarkia are competing to beat their time in naming all the parts of a book in a round robin naming game.

Please help your student to remember to bring back their library books!  You should be getting an email reminder if their books are overdue.  I will also be printing out paper reminder slips to come home as well.

Don't forget to sign up to help out at our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair!