We've got new book displays up! Valentine's day, love themes, and fairy tales will be featured on top of our shelves for the taking, as well as some of our newer books.
We purchased new stickers to mark our socially-distanced seats at our library tables, and dots for the carpet where we line up for checkout. We are still using hand sanitizer at the door and wearing face masks and shields to keep our library safe when we have class visits and book browsing. Tables also get sprayed with disinfectant after class visits.
Read-alouds and lessons for the week:
PreK is reviewing animal characteristics and repetitive reading with Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino, illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
We are also watching the Sesame Street video of the song "Sing After Me", to practice echoing and patterns.
First graders are listening to The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach, talking about strong feelings and coping strategies like self-talk and purposeful breathing.
Second graders are learning about plant characteristics in class, so we are reading Seeds Move! by Robin Page, focusing on the verbs and the many different ways that seeds leave their "homes" to grow elsewhere.
It's Bluebonnet Nominee voting week for third through fifth graders! We only have a handful of readers eligible to vote so far, so Ms Margocs is asking students who aren't eligible to fill out a survey to help improve the Bluebonnet reading program at AME. We know the pandemic has had an effect on our reading habits. Ms Margocs has a few ideas to get a head start on next year's list--stay tuned!
We have had quite a few people donate books to the library lately--some for the shelves, and many more to share with our Dillo Readers for their own home libraries. We will be making another round of book deliveries to classrooms and homes in the coming weeks. Please respond to survey requests from your teachers so that we can identify those students who are most in need of reading materials at home.
See you at your library time, Dillos, whether in the library or in a Meet! Curbside Delivery is still available to help you keep on reading!
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