It's Wednesday! What's happening in the Sommer Library?

We are back to our regularly scheduled programming!  (At least for the next two weeks.)

October's book display themes:  fall, Halloween, night, being scared, scary books and mysteries.  (There are scary and creepy stories in fiction, too; Ms Margocs just forgot to take pics!) 

Our STEAM topic of the month is space--planets, stars, astronauts, and rockets.

Lessons this week:

PPCD/TWC is jumping into autumn with Who Loves the Fall?

Kindergarteners are learning more about objects in space--and the Depth and Complexity icon "Rules"-- listening to A Place for Pluto, a Texas 2x2 book.

First grades are also studying objects in the sky, so they are learning a lot of details about the center of our solar system with an Armadillo Readers Choice book,  Sun: One in a Billion.

Second graders are learning that sometimes rules are meant to be broken, applauding the efforts of Mary Edwards Walker in Mary Wears What She Wants, another Armadillo Readers Choice book.

Third graders are completing a district-wide summer reading survey.  The district is attempting to measure the impact of summer reading on academic progress during the school year.

Fourth and fifth graders are watching book trailers for our Bluebonnet Award nominees, and identifying the genre(s) for each book.

Speaking of summer reading...prizes for our Beach Blanket Bingo will be distributed over the next two weeks!  We will have a lot of friends enjoying a lunch in the library with friends of their choosing for completing all twenty squares.

It's October, which means we are officially counting down to our Fall Scholastic Book Fair!

Money from book fairs help fund author visits for all grade levels, library supplies, magazines, books for students and the library, Bluebonnet Award program registration and our Bluebonnet Breakfast, and professional development opportunities.  Please consider volunteering your time for setting up, running, and taking down our book fair.  The volunteer link will be going live soon.