MOES Library
Notes & News - October 2012
Circulation Stats
Students & teachers have borrowed over 5000 items since school began - What a bunch of readers! We love to have folks use our treasures.
South Carolina Picture Book Award
Students in the classes of Mrs. Riley (K), Mrs. Adkins, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Lauricella, Mrs. Mills & Mrs. Altman are listening to the nominated award titles of SC Picture Books. After hearing six or more titles, students will be invited to the library vote on their one special favorite and the MOES vote will be included in the state contest.
Book Club
Thirty 4th & 5th graders have joined book club and are busy reading, testing & blogging about the fine titles nominated for the SC Childrens Book Award. If members read six or more of the twenty titles, they are invited to vote for their favorite at breakfast in the library.
Caught Reading
Have you or your students been caught reading yet? We're always searching for new readers to add to our collection - Beware of librarian with camera.
Collaboration
All ELA students in Mrs. Riley's, Mrs. Mills' & Mrs. Lauricella's classes come to the library for an additional dose of instruction in figurative language during Oct. & Nov.; similes & metaphors are sprouting up everywhere!
Pick of the Litter - New Books
Fandango, new version of the Stone Soup story
Countries of the World Series - 30 titles
Draw 50...Series - 10 titles
Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks
Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Roitten
Titles on animal camouflage, symmetry, punctuation, the environment and The Hunley
Chomp, by Carl Hiassen & Gutman's Never Say Genius -upper level fiction
Jan's Brett's Home for Christmas
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America & Life On a Plantation
Ivy & Bean, a series at 3rd level
Bones & More Bones; scary stories
Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker
The Remarkable Respiratory System
Similes & Metaphors - beginning level