October, here we come!

The Book Fair is coming!

  I have been given the opportunity to  be responsible for the book fairs this year.  I am excited to be able to get even more books into the hands of our students!  This week we will be putting the flyers into your mailboxes so that you can pass them out on Monday, October 6th!  Also, I will be putting "Teacher Wish List" forms into your box.  Sometime during, or even before conferences, come down and choose what books you would like and write them on the forms.  Many families like to purchase books for your classroom.  The theme is Egyptian this year and it will be a "Cool Place to discover Hot books!" (No, I didn't make that up, it comes from Scholastic!)

In Kindergarten, I have some choices for you, for your read aloud: (please respond to my email with your choice- thanks!)

1. Fire! Fire! by Gail Gibbons
2. A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry
3. Martha Doesn't Say Sorry (to go with Second Step)

In technology we will continue to use Book Flix!  This program we were able to get through Scholastic Book Fair money!  It is a great program that pairs a fiction video of a book, and a non-fiction book on the same subject.  For example, Click, Clack, Moo!  is the video, and the book is about dairy cows.  If you want to use it in your classroom, the user name is vdelc and the password is bookflix.  If you notice that it is running slowly, it may because too many people are using it at once.  It is a streaming video!  The kids who have used it seem to like it!
Also in technology news, WiggleWorks is coming.  I take the time to show the kids how to use each part of WiggleWorks, even the part where they can read to the computer (that's why we have microphones in the Media Center!)  I need your help with this one!  Please enter your students names into the program under your class so that when we start it will be all ready for them!  I will add the classes, so you can add the names and the reading levels for your students.  If you are having difficulty with this, please ask me, I would love to help!  Thanks!

For PreK this week I will read either, Daisy the Fire Cow or My Truck is Stuck. Please let me know if you won't be coming to library because of the Fire Safety Fair.  Thanks!

Our Library will be getting a new look!  On Friday, I will begin to pull all of our Spanish books and put them in their own section.  This is a direction that the entire district is taking so that we can match what they do at the Woodstock Public Library.  I will make a Bilingual section as well.  Hopefully this will make it easier for everyone to find those Spanish and Bilingual books!  

Since we have gotten such a positive response to the t-shirts, I will be putting in a new order.  The order forms should be here this week!

Have a great week!