We have a new club in the library--the Dillo Readers Advisory, and the members have been busy the past couple of weeks helping to update our collection! Last week, they practiced putting books in shelf order, then worked on applying yellow label covers on our beginning chapter books.
This week, they helped Ms Margocs pull books that hadn't been checked out in TEN years. We then started on evaluating them and put the books in four piles: definitely discard, find newer editions/ information, definitely keep, and put on display to check out or be discarded in a month.
Several of our club members were surprised about the books not circulating, noting that they would have checked them out if they knew about them. Hopefully highlighting their picks will get some of these books back in circulation!
We are in testing season; this week, third through fifth graders will have STAAR interim tests in preparation for the end of year testing in May. The library will be in use by testing groups during these weeks; Ms Margocs and Ms Moss also have testing duties. Please pardon the interruption to our regularly scheduled library visits.
Today we had a virtual storyteller visit with Toni Simmons!
Ms Simmons visited with PreK, kindergarten and first graders via Google Meet. She told wonderful folk stories from Africa and the US, and had the scholars singing in Swahili and dancing to the djembe and axatse! Ms Simmons also gave us some facts about famous African Americans such as Garrett Morgan, inventor and Mae Jemison, an astronaut.
If you haven't turned in your Waves of Pages reading logs yet--they are overdue! Hand them over to your teachers ASAP; reading must have been done before February 7th to qualify.
Invitations went out to several scholars to try out for our Battle of the Bluebonnets Team; wish them luck! We'll announce the team in next week's blog post.
Keep on reading, Dillos!
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