Paloma Creek Elementary Library
Monthly Newsletter for March 2018
Spring Book Fair on March 20th-March 23rd!
Online shopping will be available from March 7th through March 27th. Online orders will be shipped directly to the school after online ordering ends and will be delivered to your student. If you prefer to send in money and an order form with your student, we will send forms home in Tuesday folders the second week of March.
This year students can have a chance to win a basket of books! When you come into to the the book fair, make sure you play our Guessing Game. Entry forms will be available at the book fair cash registers. The winner with the overall best guess will win a basket of books from our book fair, estimated to be worth $100. The next closest guesses from each grade level will get to choose a poster or paperback book from the book fair. No purchase is necessary to participate in the Guessing Game.
We need volunteers! If you are able and willing to help students select and purchase books during our book fair, please sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f044aaead28a46-paloma3.
The Texas Bluebonnet Book of 2017-2018 is...
For Paloma Creek ES, our unofficial Bluebonnet winner was Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids and a Hundred Sea Turtles by Philippe Cousteau. Our runner-up was Last Kids on Earth. Thank you to all of our Bluebonnet readers and voters this year!
March STEAM Careers: Arts and Crafting Applications Due March 22nd
Applications for our March STEAM Careers event go home in Tuesday folders on March 6th and are due back by Thursday, March 22nd. Space is limited, so we are only accepting the first 25 applications. Please have your student drop off their application in the library or hand it directly to Ms. Qualls or Ms. Gonzalez.
If your student's application is one of the first 25 received, you will receive an email with more details by Friday, March 23rd.
March STEAM Book Design Challenge
STEAM Challenge
Our STEAM Challenge for March will to create a rain gauge and measure the amount of rain you get in March. Check out our Paloma Creek Elementary Library blog for more details about our monthly design challenges for families and other news about our library. Our blog, CREATE@PalomaCreek can be found here or from our PCE Library webpage.
After finishing the challenge, take a picture and post it to our PCE Library social media sites or email it to paloma_library@dentonisd.org.
Students that participate in this optional (but fun) challenge and post/email a picture by March 31st will get to choose a poster or a paperback book as a prize.
Last Month in the Library
Dr. Seuss Reading Day and Read Across America
Photo Credit: Denton ISD Communications Dept.
STEAM Careers: Real World Challenges
STEAM Careers: Real World Challenges
Check Out These New Titles in the LIbrary
New in Nonfiction Books
Forensic Science Investigator by Tamra Orr
- Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a forensic investigator, reading about the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career.
Shelf Location: 363.25 ORR
New in Graphic Novels
Wings of Fire: Dragonet Prophecy Graphic Novel by Tui Sutherland
Clay and the other four MudWing dragonets were stolen from their homes while they were still in their eggs and hidden for years in order to fulfill a prophecy claiming that the dragonets would end the war between the dragon tribes, but not all of the dragonets want their destiny.
Shelf Location: FIC SUT GRA (Graphic Novel shelves)
New in Fiction
Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life is a Joke by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
- "Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"-- Provided by publisher.
Shelf Location: FIC PAT
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Paloma Creek Elementary Library
Librarian Assistant: Mrs. Nikki Gonzalez
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