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-Miss H.
Historical Fiction Book Reviews
Click on "add a comment" and add your historical fiction book review to this section!
LMC Survey Results
As of January 6, we had 73 parent take the LMC Survey. Thank you to parents for giving their input!
We appreciate student and parent suggestions.
Below in red are some of the parent suggestions we have taking into consideration.
"Please continue to invite the kids to be excited about visiting the LMC and the local library."
In December our 1st graders took a field trip to the public library. This visit helped 1st graders make connections between the school and public libraries and help bolster enthusiasm for books in both library settings.
"The younger children need leveled readers with larger print."
I pulled books from the "Everybody" section and made two different leveled reader sections. One section is called: ABC books "A Better Choice" for 1st graders. There is also a AR book section with books ranging from AR levels 1.0-1.9.
"Perhaps more magazine choices for the kids."
We used grant money to buy more magazines this year including Ranger Rick, Muse, Kids Discover, Ask (Arts and Science for Kids), National Geographic for Kids, Your Big Backyard, Zoobooks, American Girl, Sports Illustrated for Kids, and Spider.
It is not too late to respond to the survey. It will only take 3 minutes!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FFZ5P2R
We appreciate student and parent suggestions.
Below in red are some of the parent suggestions we have taking into consideration.
"Please continue to invite the kids to be excited about visiting the LMC and the local library."
In December our 1st graders took a field trip to the public library. This visit helped 1st graders make connections between the school and public libraries and help bolster enthusiasm for books in both library settings.
"The younger children need leveled readers with larger print."
I pulled books from the "Everybody" section and made two different leveled reader sections. One section is called: ABC books "A Better Choice" for 1st graders. There is also a AR book section with books ranging from AR levels 1.0-1.9.
"Perhaps more magazine choices for the kids."
We used grant money to buy more magazines this year including Ranger Rick, Muse, Kids Discover, Ask (Arts and Science for Kids), National Geographic for Kids, Your Big Backyard, Zoobooks, American Girl, Sports Illustrated for Kids, and Spider.
It is not too late to respond to the survey. It will only take 3 minutes!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FFZ5P2R
Tumble Books
Have you tried Tumble Books?
Go to www.tumblebooklibrary.com
If you are a Spring Brook parent or student you can use our password for free!
Username: IPSD
Password: books
This is a great way to share literature with your children at home!
Go to www.tumblebooklibrary.com
If you are a Spring Brook parent or student you can use our password for free!
Username: IPSD
Password: books
This is a great way to share literature with your children at home!
National Geographic Kids Almanac "Traveling Quiz Show"
Dear Booklovers, We're pleased to welcome the National Geographic Kids Almanac "Traveling Quiz Show." Play along with us at this lively program for 8-11 year olds in our Naperville store, 123 W. Jefferson Ave. Steve Tomecek, of National Geographic, will be our host. Free, but please reserve your spot to participate by calling Anderson's, (630) 355-2665. We'll be drawing names to create six, parent/child teams from those registered. Hope to see you soon, Your friends at Anderson's.
Want to Play?
Anderson's Bookshop will have six teams made up of one parent or guardian/one child each. Names will be drawn from those registered. The game will be conducted like a spelling bee, with a team's incorrect answers ending in elimination. Those not selected to participate on a team will be allowed to attempt additional "at large" questions during the program. PRIZES!!!!One Ultra HD Flip Camera (Retail price: $229.99) A nine book set of National Geographic's most popular reference books for the winning child's classroom.
Want to Play?
Anderson's Bookshop will have six teams made up of one parent or guardian/one child each. Names will be drawn from those registered. The game will be conducted like a spelling bee, with a team's incorrect answers ending in elimination. Those not selected to participate on a team will be allowed to attempt additional "at large" questions during the program. PRIZES!!!!One Ultra HD Flip Camera (Retail price: $229.99) A nine book set of National Geographic's most popular reference books for the winning child's classroom.
Calling All Wild Things!
Calling all Wild Things!
On October 29, Spring Brook Elementary hosted a Family Literacy Event focused on Maurice Sendak’s book, Where the Wild Things Are. 148 people joined the wild rumpus to celebrate reading. Celeste Giles, Naperville Public Librarian, Linda McCoy, Spring Brook Reading Specialist, and Natalie Hoyle, Spring Brook LMC Director emphasized the importance of reading aloud to children for at least 20 minutes a day. “Children need to find books that are just the right fit,” said McCoy pulling out various shoes from her bag “just like shoes fit the activity, books too should have a purpose.” “My goal is to pass on love of reading to Spring Brook students, by being a passionate reader, booktalking, and motivating students to read” said Hoyle. After kids made their own wild thing puppets, Stuart Vance, Spring Brook Kindergarten teacher and Miss Hoyle wowed the young audience with a dramatic reading of Where the Wild Things Are.
Happy Halloweening at Anderson's!
Happy Halloweening at Anderson's Bookshop!
Celebrate all things spooky with us! Come for treats and fun. Wear your costume for our best-dressed contest. And NEW THIS YEAR, we are offering haunted trolley rides leaving from our Naperville store. The 1/2 hour rides leave at 6:00., 6:45, 7:30 and 8:15. Authors will be aboard each ride.
Ghost tour guide and author Kevin Frantz (6:00) will talk about haunted Naperville. Carolyn Crimi (6:45, 7:30) will read her Boris and Bella story. Diana Laurence will discuss her vampire book.
Friday, October 30 beginning at 6:00 p.m. and continuing throughout the evening in Naperville.
Celebrate all things spooky with us! Come for treats and fun. Wear your costume for our best-dressed contest. And NEW THIS YEAR, we are offering haunted trolley rides leaving from our Naperville store. The 1/2 hour rides leave at 6:00., 6:45, 7:30 and 8:15. Authors will be aboard each ride.
Ghost tour guide and author Kevin Frantz (6:00) will talk about haunted Naperville. Carolyn Crimi (6:45, 7:30) will read her Boris and Bella story. Diana Laurence will discuss her vampire book.
Friday, October 30 beginning at 6:00 p.m. and continuing throughout the evening in Naperville.
Rebecca Caudill Award
Looking for a good book to read?
Spring Brook’s 4th and 5th graders have the option to participate in a kids choice book award known as the Rebecca Caudill Award. Students who are interested in voting for the annual Rebecca Caudill Award will read at least 3 titles on the list for 2010. Many of the books are available in the Spring Brook LMC. Of course, these titles are always available at the public library or favorite bookstore.
Last month Miss H. booktalked all the Caudill titles that the LMC owns to familiarize students with this year’s titles and already the books are flying off the shelves by eager readers that can’t wait to dive into the Caudill titles.
For more information on the Rebecca Caudill program for students in grades 4-8 and annotations of each title, you can visit http://www.rebeccacaudill.org/.Voting in the LMC takes place annually in February. We will announce the school’s winner. Then Spring Brook student votes will be sent into the Rebecca Caudill state committee to be counted. The state’s decision will be announced in March.
To help motivate students, they have made personal and school goals. When an individual student reads a title, they put a paw up to represent which book they have read. With some of the popular titles, we have already filled up over half the bulletin board with paw prints!
A special thank you to LMC volunteers for helping create the festive board.
Happy Reading!
Miss H.
LMC Director
Spring Brook families are invited to our:
Family Literacy Night
Family Literacy Night
Thursday, October 29th
6:45 – 7:45 pm
LMC / Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)
6:45 – 7:45 pm
LMC / Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)
Featuring: Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
Activities planned for Family Literacy Night include:
by Maurice Sendak
Activities planned for Family Literacy Night include:
Where the Wild Things Are Dramatic reading by Mr. Vance & Miss Hoyle
Storytelling by Public Librarian Celeste Giles
A display of Wild Things created by Spring Brook’s 1st grade classes in Art Awareness
Spring Brook and Naperville public library resource demonstration including Tumblebooks™
A Make It / Take It craft for children in the MPR
Make a Wild Thing using an interactive SmartBoard
Pictured here are Spring Brook parents getting involved in the LMC during Curriculum Night by answering the question: What am I reading with my child?
The bulletin board served as a visual reminder to parents how important it is to read with your child, no matter their age.
Some of the many stellar parent book suggestions include:
Saavy
Fancy Nancy
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog
Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Gross
The Black Stallion
Llama Llama Red Pajama
The Princess and the Pizza
Spiderman
Pinkalicious
Swindle
Thank you to all the Spring Brook parents who made book suggestions!
The bulletin board served as a visual reminder to parents how important it is to read with your child, no matter their age.
Some of the many stellar parent book suggestions include:
Saavy
Fancy Nancy
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog
Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Gross
The Black Stallion
Llama Llama Red Pajama
The Princess and the Pizza
Spiderman
Pinkalicious
Swindle
Thank you to all the Spring Brook parents who made book suggestions!
Miss H.
LMC Director
Beginning of the School Year
Welcome back to Spring Brook's LMC!
On Thursday, August 20th and Friday, August 21st students will come down to the LMC to checkout textbooks.
During the week of August 24th, I will give an LMC orientation lesson for all students!
Can't wait to see you in the LMC!
-Miss H.
On Thursday, August 20th and Friday, August 21st students will come down to the LMC to checkout textbooks.
During the week of August 24th, I will give an LMC orientation lesson for all students!
Can't wait to see you in the LMC!
-Miss H.
Welcome!
Welcome to the new and updated LMC Blog for Spring Brook School. Thanks to Mrs. Madzinski for helping me set up this blog. I hope you enjoy commenting on this blog--let me know what you are reading and what you think about the book.
Notice some of the bookcovers of the 2010 Rebecca Caudill and Monarch nominated books are on the right side.
For a full list of the 2010 Rebecca Caudill books, check out: http://www.rcyrba.org/
For a full list of the 2010 Monarch books, check out: http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm
Poke around, enjoy yourself and remember to leave a comment! :)
-Miss H.
Notice some of the bookcovers of the 2010 Rebecca Caudill and Monarch nominated books are on the right side.
For a full list of the 2010 Rebecca Caudill books, check out: http://www.rcyrba.org/
For a full list of the 2010 Monarch books, check out: http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm
Poke around, enjoy yourself and remember to leave a comment! :)
-Miss H.
Anderson's Author Visits
Dear Fans of Children's Books,
A summer full of activities just right for young readers, and young adult readers, awaits at Anderson's Bookshops. Check out our line-up and take advantage of amazing authors and exciting events. June and July are jumping with top authors kids love! We hope to see you soon.
Stay on top of all of our events at www.andersonsbookshop.com
Happy Reading,
Your friends at Anderson's Bookshops
Children's Authors Coming Soon:
Michael Buckley
author of The Sisters Grimm series, Friday, July 10, 3 p.m., Downers Grove.
Phil Bildner
author of the Sluggers baseball series, Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m., Downers Grove.
Avi, Sarah Weeks, Pam Munoz Ryan and Brian Selznick
perform in our
Readers Theatre
Saturday, July 11 at 2 p.m. at Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth, Naperville. Purchase tickets at Anderson's ($5 each).
Daniel Kirk with Library Mouse: A New Friend and Nikki McClure with All in a Day's Work, Sunday, July 12 at 1 p.m., Naperville.
Jon Scieszka
author of the Trucktown books and many more, Monday, July 13, at 11 a.m., Naperville.
A summer full of activities just right for young readers, and young adult readers, awaits at Anderson's Bookshops. Check out our line-up and take advantage of amazing authors and exciting events. June and July are jumping with top authors kids love! We hope to see you soon.
Stay on top of all of our events at www.andersonsbookshop.com
Happy Reading,
Your friends at Anderson's Bookshops
Children's Authors Coming Soon:
Michael Buckley
author of The Sisters Grimm series, Friday, July 10, 3 p.m., Downers Grove.
Phil Bildner
author of the Sluggers baseball series, Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m., Downers Grove.
Avi, Sarah Weeks, Pam Munoz Ryan and Brian Selznick
perform in our
Readers Theatre
Saturday, July 11 at 2 p.m. at Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth, Naperville. Purchase tickets at Anderson's ($5 each).
Daniel Kirk with Library Mouse: A New Friend and Nikki McClure with All in a Day's Work, Sunday, July 12 at 1 p.m., Naperville.
Jon Scieszka
author of the Trucktown books and many more, Monday, July 13, at 11 a.m., Naperville.
Summer Reads
Right now I am reading a biography called The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary Written by Candace Fleming and recommend it to fifth graders and adults.
This book is not just another basic book about Abraham Lincoln. Much of the book is about Mary, Abraham's wife and there is even information about their dog Fido. Filled with photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, and extensive timeline, this book is almost as good as a trip to the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL.
Take a minute to comment on books that you reading or listening to this summer. Click on the word "comments" and let me know if you are loving the book you are reading or not and why.
This book is not just another basic book about Abraham Lincoln. Much of the book is about Mary, Abraham's wife and there is even information about their dog Fido. Filled with photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, and extensive timeline, this book is almost as good as a trip to the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL.
Take a minute to comment on books that you reading or listening to this summer. Click on the word "comments" and let me know if you are loving the book you are reading or not and why.
Summer Reading
This summer is the perfect time to find some good books and relax and read! Make sure to check out the public library reading program and get involved with all they have to offer!
-Miss Hoyle
-Miss Hoyle
The 2010 Rebecca Caudill voting will be take place on Feb. 18th. All of the books were introduced to the 4th and 5th graders in a power point presentation at the beginning of the year in the LMC. To vote, 4th and 5th graders must have read or heard at least 3 books from the 2010 list. Staff members are amazed at how many of our 4th and 5th grade students qualify for voting this year!
Congratulations!
Here are this year's nominees:
http://www.rcyrba.org/pdf/2009MasterList.pdf
We will announce the Spring Brook winner in late February over the PA system. The state winner will be announced in mid-March.
-Miss H
Congratulations!
Here are this year's nominees:
http://www.rcyrba.org/pdf/2009MasterList.pdf
We will announce the Spring Brook winner in late February over the PA system. The state winner will be announced in mid-March.
-Miss H
Monarch Voting
ISLMA, the Illinois School Library Association has created a kid’s choice award, similar to the Rebecca Caudill Award, but for younger students.The Monarch Award list has 20 nominee titles, ranging from non-fiction, poetry, picture books, to chapter books. This year 1st- 3rd Grade Spring Brook students are registered to participate in the Monarch Award. Teachers are reading ten or more of the titles from the nominee list to students in the classrooms. This month, after speaking to the students about elections and voting, Ms. Hoyle, LMC Director, will show the Monarch Power point and then participating students will have the opportunity to secretly vote for their favorite Monarch title. When your child returns home with a sticker that says, "I voted for the Monarch Award," ask them about their voting experience!For more information about the Monarch Award, visit the ISLMA website at http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm.
-Miss Hoyle
-Miss Hoyle
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