Dear Stonehedge Families,

I can’t believe the time has come again to wish everyone a wonderful summer! It sure has been a long and strange late winter and spring. We’ve made a lot of changes in how we’ve interacted, taught, and learned, but we’ve made it through and I do hope you all can enjoy the official summer break to the utmost.

New York State's summer reading theme is "Imagine your Story"

But since it is nearly summer, I can’t sign off without talking a bit about summer reading. Next week’s library lesson on the WG learning portal…the last for a while…is all about summer reading; you’ll find details from all of our local public library branches, including videos explaining their summer reading programs. Most public branches are doing curbside pickup now and the library links will give you the best information on how to take advantage of their services. The library lesson also has a handy list of Little Free Libraries in the greater Camillus area. These are informal collections of books that you are free to keep (or better yet, read something and return it and take something new!) Little Frees are also a great place to rehome books you might want to give away. The library lesson also includes book suggestions, including the 5^th going into 6^th grade recommended reads…including audio files of each book’s first chapter read to you by my student teacher Elizabeth Lutz. There are also welcoming videos from both middle school librarians, Mrs. Bush from CMS and Mrs. Chemotti from WGMS. 

I can’t stress enough how important it is to read over the summer!!! No matter what the format, any reading you do is beneficial to you.

I’m sharing with you my book stacks…the one on the left is the stack I’ve read since we’ve been paused (by all rights, it would be bigger but I think I read Artemis Fowl and The Arctic Incident six times apiece prepping for the AF book club!) The one on the right is made up of the books I hope to read over the summer. Will I make it through the stack? I’m not sure, but I know I’ll have fun trying. Have fun with your own stacks and have a wonderful summer!

Until we meet again,

Don’t forget to

READ4FUN

Mrs. Abbott