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Library: News
September 2008
- Welcome back to the library! We are off to a
great start.
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- As the youngest children have been coming in over the
past couple of weeks, we have been reviewing library
citizenship: simple things like sharing, turning
pages with care, putting books back where they belong,
and returning books on time. If you help your prep
student or first grader with this last task, especially,
by knowing when his/her library day is, we will continue
to have happy kids who are able to check out a new book
each week.
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- The primary students already know all the rules, and
they are jumping into the swing of things like
pros. The second graders are now able to browse the
Green Spot books and will soon be exploring our
Non-Fiction section. Fourth graders are discovering
the authors and books in the Blue Spot section. As
the year progresses, each of the grades will be learning
specific library skills, and our fifth graders are
already stepping into a unit on book genres.
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- As we have met with the older students, we have been
eager to hear what they read over the summer. What
a range of books they have tackled! Some of their
recommendations go straight onto our ordering
lists. Some, however, do not. Occasionally,
books that are fine at home for your individual student
may not be as appropriate for the school population, as a
whole. At the Ambrit Library we try very hard to take
into consideration the maturity level of all of our
students as we choose and catalogue books &endash; it is
an on-going process.
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- Please come in and look at the beautiful new carpet
in our storytime area. We purchased it with money
earned through our used book sales &endash; thank you for
your support. And speaking of book sales, the Good
Books Book Fair is coming to Ambrit the first week of
October. Your children will have a chance to browse
and purchase during school on Thursday, October 2, and
Friday, October 3, and the book fair will continue during
the Fall BBQ on Saturday. We hope to see you
there.
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- Happy reading,
- Amy Ronning and Jill Wiebe
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