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.

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

Thursday, October 29th
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:

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