Look Whooo's reading at Midvalley!

Just in case you give a hoot!

SPRUCEWOOD ELEMENTARY MEDIA CENTER

TAKE A SPIN...

We invited our students and staff to come in and take a spin through our library to see what's new.  This bulletin board proved a great method to stir up some interest in our newly purchased books. 

Oakdale

These bookmarks are the WINNERS of a Bookmark Contest!!!

We printed enough for the entire school.

What do you think?

Alta View is Wild About Books!

We decided on a safari theme for our library this year.

 

 

Oakdale Elementary

While looking at our new order of Beehive Nominee books, we came across 'Journey' by Aaron Becker.  It is a magical book.  It is wordless and the illustrations are amazing.  After reading it, we found a video done by the author where he talks about the symbolism in the book. (The video is four and a half minutes long.)  We are excited to share this book and video with third, fourth and fifth graders next week. 

'Journey' by Aaron Becker
http://vimeo.com/74464059 is the link to the video.


Other great wordless (or almost wordless) books are:

The Lion and the Mouse, by J. Pinkney
Window by J. Baker
Zoom by I. Banyai
The Arrival by S. Tan
The Red Book by B. Lehman
Un-brella by S.E. Franson
Unspoken: a Story from the Underground Railroad by H. Cole
Flotsam by D. Wiesner


Thank you for all your great ideas!

PBIS at Sprucewood

 We are SAFE, RESPECTFUL, and RESPONSIBLE at SPRUCEWOOD ELEMENTARY! 

In an effort to reinforce our big three values, we held PBIS training with our students.  As part of our training, we demonstrated what being Safe, Respectful and Responsible looked like in our library.   It is a great benefit for student to actually see how these behaviors look in the library. We role played with our teachers and shared our new poster of "what it looks like". We now have our poster hanging in our library as a reminder of how each behavior/value should look in our library.  Our students are responding well to this added resource. 

Fun Bulletin Board Idea (Peruvian Park Elementary)

Our students (and teachers) have had a lot of fun singing this familiar song and looking at the books highlighted on our bulletin board.

The books shown on our bulletin board are becoming our most requested books in the library right now. We plan on changing the book covers periodically.