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
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.
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