New Year, New Look!

Happy New Year everyone! The first days of library have been very exciting. Over the summer, we rearranged the fiction area and the kids have been having a great time getting to know the new set up. Our new kindergarteners are also getting acclimated to the library routine. We also have a new library automation (check-in, check-out) system so we just started checking books out this week. In order to ease the new system in, for this first week of check-out, all students are only checking out one book. Once we know everything is running smoothly, we will go back to our regular numbers: one book for grades 1 & K, two for 2^nd grade and three items for 3-5 (including magazines and DVD’s).

All students are being taught (and retaught) library responsibility. They know that when they borrow a book, they are promising to take good care of it while it is “theirs”. Please help them by keeping books in a special, safe place at home, somewhere they know they can find their books when library day comes around. It should be someplace away from younger children, pets and water bottles, our worst offenders. Ask your child about the “Backpack of Doom” and how we teach them to treat their books like a baby.

October is PARP month and our awesome PTA has many fun activities planned to encourage students and grownups to read together. Watch for details about Open Library Nights and our special author visit next month. Being a reading partner for your child is so important. Whether you read to a small child, with an emergent reader, or in front of your older children, you are establishing lifelong habits that will set them up for success.

Until next time…don’t forget to READ4FUN!

Mrs. Abbott