What a great October!!! We had such an awesome PARP month here at Stonehedge. Everywhere you looked there was reading going on. The Scholastic Book Fair got us off to a roaring start. We also had two Open Library Nights and many families joined us for book browsing and quiet reading….”AT NIGHT”. Lots of extra books went home with kids to share with their reading partners.

Last Friday, author-illustrator Troy Cummings was here for the day. Mr. Cummings writes “The Notebook of Doom” series as well as Can I Be Your Dog?  and other popular picture books. He spoke to all of our students about how he comes up with his ideas for stories and how he designs his monsters and other characters. (Ask your student about Troy’s “one-letter” method of making a doodle look evil…)

Stella helped Troy Cummings design a new monster!

  He also did a great exercise with 4^th and 5^th grades about “voice” in stories that required quite a bit of audience participation. All of his “volunteers” were great sports and the rest of the audience loved it.

Mrs. Harrison channeled her inner teenager to demonstrate "voice".

A big thanks to our amazing PTA for bringing Mr. Cummings to our school. His books are super popular here at Stonehedge and it really is an amazing treat to see our favorite authors and illustrators in person and talk about how the magic happens. 

Author of the Notebook of Doom meets the Library's Backpack of Doom!

Who knows which of our Stonehedge students may be inspired to be the next Troy Cummings?

Until next time,

Mrs. Abbott

Happy Autumn Everyone!

What a great start to the school year we’ve had. All classes are right back into the swing of things and even our newest Kindergarten friends are coming to library class and borrowing books like pros. We’ve done all of our “Backpack of Doom” lessons and everyone knows to treat their books “like a baby”. (Ask your student about our book in a diaper.)

October is “Pick a Reading Partner” (PARP) month. The PTA has set up so many fun activities to encourage everyone to read a little bit more this month. On Friday October 25^th the PTA is bringing author/illustrator Troy Cummings to Stonehedge! He’s the creator of the wildly popular “Notebook of Doom” series as well as numerous picture books. He’ll talk to our students about the importance of reading as well as his artistic process.

In honor of PARP we will have two Open Library Nights this month: Monday October 7^th and Thursday October 24^th. The library will be open for browsing, quiet reading and book check out from 6:30-7:30. It’s a great opportunity to promote that extra reading time. We hope to see you there!!!

Don’t forget to

READ4FUN!

Mrs. Abbott

Hi Everyone! The previously scheduled Open Library for August 20th has been canceled. (Mrs. Abbott and Mrs. Graser can not be there.) So...tomorrow will be the last Open Library. Come see us from 10am -noon. Book Worms still meet tomorrow and the 20th, so books can be returned on those days.