Fourth Library Time Sept 2012

As of next Wednesday, all students at Sycamore Park will have had four library classes this year. It seems like school just started and it is almost October.  The Book Fair will be here October 5 - 12.

The story pit has another new look.  In addition to the Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar rug, Mrs. Barredo's ten year old daughter made a wonderful banner, and it really makes the story pit stand out:

"I'm hungry for a good book!" banner by Mrs. Barredo's daughter.

All of the students at Sycamore Park are checking out books now, and the Pre-K classes will start this week. Mrs. Barredo and I are seeing many, many students in the library in the mornings because they are finishing their books and wanting more to read before their next library day.  We are very happy about this. I am very impressed with how many wonderful readers there are at Sycamore Park.

The Sycamore Park library is the very lucky recipient of a $500 grant from Target to order books for the library.  With this grant, we will be able to purchase more copies of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books (we can't keep enough copies in the library!) among many other books and a new 2012 Brittanica Student encyclopedia set for the reference section.  The students will be spending some time signing a "thank you" page for us to send to Target to thank them for this very needed and very appreciated grant so that we can buy more books. Each class will have a page to sign and we will put these together to make a thank you book.