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

 Ms Margocs won a Partners in Education (PIE) Grant last week!

She will be buying supplies soon to start our "Books of Our Reading Lives" project with ALL the scholars at Anderson Mill Elementary!  We will have book cover stickers and little journals to keep track of what we read this year.  More details to come!

This week, we bring attention to attempts to censor and ban books in libraries across the nation.  Did you know that Texas ranks first in book challenges?  Every parent has the right to manage their own children's reading lives--but they should not have the right to manage the reading lives of other families.  Here are some of the books in our library that have been challenged in our country and state; I bet you've read quite a few of them!

We are continuing to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, and of course, we have plenty of books on Latin American countries and culture, as well as books by Latinx authors to share.

Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair dates have been shifted to accommodate our PTA Fall Carnival.  The book fair will now be open November 1st through 4th.

This week's read-alouds and lessons:

 PreK is making connections with the concept of family while sharing these books:

Kindergarten, first and second grades are thinking about who they are when the question "What are you?" is asked--and it's our first Armadillo Readers' Choice book of the year!  We are also asking kind questions to learn more about new friends.  (By the way, the author/ illustrator of What I Am is Divya Srinivasan--and she lives here in Austin!)

Third through fifth grades are learning how to search for nonfiction books using our online catalog, then finding the books on the shelves.  This will come in handy when they begin their research projects!

See you in the library, Dillo Readers!