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Weekly SLM subthemes:
  • Making Learner Connections
  • Making Educator Connections
  • Making Community Connections
  • Making Global Connections

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Global Day of Design - May 4, 2018

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Read for the Record - 10/19

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How to Participate

Back to School - September 2017

September is Library Card Sign Up Month

Happy #LibraryCardSignUp Month! Visit your library this September and get a library card of your own.
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Roald Dahl's Birthday - Sept. 13th

A spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and a medical inventor. Find out more about his life.
https://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/about

Raold Dahl's website - Kids pages

International Dot Day - Sept. 15th

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Waiting time = Reading time!

What's New?

April is Poetry Month

In honor of Poetry Month, we are talking up poetry--reading and writing. We learned what a concrete poem is and had a few trials with magnetic poetry and some experimenting with concrete poems. 

Blackout Poetry by 5-8

More on display in the library!
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Other events

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Voting is open at this link

Voting is open March 3 to May 7, 2017.
 
Winners will be announced on May 31st at a special ceremony featuring the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Gene Luen Yang and publicized nationally!

To celebrate Children's Book Week and Poetry Month, the 7th and 8th graders remixed their favorite children's picture books into rhymes and raps. Some added a beat to the text, some rewrote prose and made it into verse, some took their favorite lines and remixed them. It was great fun!
​Our inspiration for this lesson was Ludacris reading Llama Llama Red Pajama and OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO for Kwame Alexander's THE PLAYBOOK (with Music by Randy Preston)

Younger students read their favorite children's books and received a poster with various activities. Our read aloud for storytime was a new favorite, Life on Mars by Jon Agee.
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Thank you

We are so grateful for generous and caring people in our community! Here's a little video that the kids and I made to spread the word and to thank our book donors. 
#mannequinchallenge   #pauseforgratitude  #heartfeltthanks  #welovebooks  #readers

National Ninja Day celebrated

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november is picture book month

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I love picture books! They're for everybody! Picture Book Month is an international literacy initiative that celebrates the print picture book during the month of November.

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Every day in November, on the Picture Book Month website, there is a new post from a picture book champion explaining why he/she thinks picture books are important.

In this digital age where people are predicting the coming death of print books, picture books (the print kind) need love. And the world needs picture books. There’s nothing like the physical page turn of a beautifully crafted picture book.

Join the celebration and party with a picture book! November is Picture Book Month. Read * Share * Celebrate!

PRESENTS FROM THE DAV PILKEY BOOK SIGNING

Thanks to Damien and parents we have a signed copy of Dav Pilkey's newest book, Dog Man, and other goodies!

​Thanks so much! 
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kids lit elections
​Who will win?

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Who is your favorite character for President? Duck? Monster? or Squid? Who has the best campaign? Who will win your vote?



The election has been counted at State Street and the winner, by a landslide, was PRESIDENT SQUID!!!

  Woodlands Bluemound students vote in the Kids Lit Election. Duck did very well in the 3/4 Unit, but overall, it was PRESIDENT SQUID that was voted favorite kits lit in this election!

Election Results


DUCK  =   68 votes
SQUID =  100 votes

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It's Teen read week - Oct 9-15

Celebrate Teen Read Week, 
Read for the fun of it!
Lire pour le plaisir!
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​Finalists Announced for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature


from School Library Journal
By SLJ Staff on October 6, 2016 


The National Book Foundation has named the finalists for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. From a longlist of 10 titles, announced on September 12, five books were selected. The winners of the 67th annual National Book Awards will be revealed at a November 16 dinner and ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, which will be streamed live on the foundation’s website. Winners receive $10,000 and a bronze medal and statue; finalists, $1,000 and a bronze medal.

​Read book reviews here.
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