Lucy's Library Blast
April 18, 2016
April is National Library month and National Poetry Month.
Good Books by Edgar Guest
Good books are friendly things to own.
If you are busy they will wait.
They will not call you on the phone
Or wake you if the hour is late.
They stand together row by row,
Upon the low shelf or the high.
But if you're lonesome this you know:
You have a friend or two nearby.
The fellowship of books is real.
They're never noisy when you're still.
They won't disturb you at your meal.
They'll comfort you when you are ill.
The lonesome hours they'll always share.
When slighted they will not complain.
And though for them you've ceased to care
Your constant friends they'll still remain.
Good books your faults will never see
Or tell about them round the town.
If you would have their company
You merely have to take them down.
They'll help you pass the time away,
They'll counsel give if that you need.
He has true friends for night and day
Who has a few good books to read.
Yet Another Study Proving How Essential Librarians Are to Successful Schools:
A South Carolina study is the first to document the contribution of school librarians to student success through the use of test results for specific English language arts (ELA) and writing standards. The study links data to detailed test results for three ELA standards—literary text, informational text, and research—and two writing standards—content and organization.
The South Carolina study supports the findings of previous state studies that better test results tend to be associated with the presence of professional school librarians and library support staff. In South Carolina, all students were more likely to show strengths and less likely to show weaknesses on (PASS) writing standards, both overall and on content and organization, if their school libraries were staffed by at least one full-time librarian and at least one full- or part-time assistant, than if their libraries were staffed otherwise.
For further reading, please click on the link.
The last day to check out books from the school library will be May 6th.
Last day to order from Limitless Libraries is April 29th.
The Awesome Readers who have earned at NO SSA day are:
Maddie Mabry
Bailey Beller
Sabirin Elmi
Jack Perry
Korianne Turney
Jacob Greenberg
Cooper Sacks
Farrah Northern
Henry Stephenson
Each book this student reads also gets their name in the drawing for the $25 gift certificate, Kindle Fire, Microsoft Surface 3, and you get a pizza party.