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

There's a bit of remodeling going on in our library!

In the interest of more floor space and visibility, we're moving our touchscreen LCD panel off the cart and onto the wall.  Lowering the shelving is the first step.  We had some empty shelves on that side of our nonfiction section, so there should be a minimum of rearranging once we get the books back where they belong.

We've received another round of new books!  

Our "windows and mirrors" collection is expanding.  We have also included more books in languages other than English for our Spanish, Korean, Hindi, Chinese, and Vietnamese speaking readers.

Lessons and read-alouds this week:

Kindergarteners are thinking about animal needs, community helpers, and kindness as we follow Arfy's attempts to find a home in Can I Be Your Dog?.

Lights out in the library as our first graders explore our solar system and beyond with the SkyView app on our iPads!  They've been able to spot several of the planets in our solar system, as well as the Moon, constellations, the Hubble Telescope, the Sun, and the International Space Station!

The other half of second grade is learning about Mary Edwards Walker, one of the first women to wear pants and the only woman (so far) to receive the Medal of Honor for her service as a surgeon in the Civil War.

The second half of the third grade classes is taking the district summer reading survey.

Fourth and fifth graders are learning about this year's Bluebonnet Award Nominees, and what it takes to earn their invitations to vote, attend the Bluebonnet Breakfast, and get a free book off of next year's list!  We're doing a review of genres and watching the Bluebonnet book trailers to practice.

Next week, Stephen R. Swinburne will be here to teach our fourth graders how to write with great details!

Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair is around the corner!  First day of shopping will be after school on October 30th.

See you in the stacks at our Sommer Library!