It's an Extreme Library Makeover...come and "check us out"!

It's been a busy place in the library over the past couple of weeks! We've truly undergone an EXTREME MAKEOVER in the library this year. Just before the Book Fair began, our new shelves finally arrived. With the help of the division`s library consultants, we were able to get all the books properly shelved and in circulation almost instantly! Our Fiction section has also been revamped to make it easier for the students to find their favorite books at their reading level.

Of course the big news in the library this month are the brand new colorful mitt chairs...a popular spot for reading or hanging out in the library working on our latest puzzle!!


A big THANK YOU to all our parents and students for your support of the Book Fair this past week. We sold over $5000.00 worth of Scholastic books and products to earn us a profit of nearly $3000 in books and cash toward our own school library!!! Way to go, LM community!

With the Book Fair packed up, it was back to business as usual in the library. We continue to celebrate LIBRARY MONTH at LM with our Name the Library Kitty contest and learning about how to choose a PURR-fect book with the early years students. Our Middle Years students have been introduced to our library website http://www.protopage.com/lmlibrary and discovering the wealth of resources and research tools right at their fingertips.


Next week, we will have some fun with Halloween websites and stories as well as taking a closer look at the book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak that has been turned into a movie!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Mrs. Eby

Giving thanks for libraries!!!

September has been a whirlwind month of firsts and new beginnings as we begin to establish routines and schedules in the library! The students had a lot of fun learning about the works of Roald Dahl and now we are into October and celebrating National Library month.

To begin the celebrations and make our library even more cozy, we have adopted a new friend to our library...a fuzzy orange stuffed kitty. He has found a comfy spot on our library futon but is desperate need of a NAME!! The early years students will be listening to several stories about cats, in particular the tale of Dewey, the library cat...to help inspire them as they enter various ideas for names in our contest to "Name the library kitty".





With our first round of Tri-conferences coming up after Thanksgiving comes our annual Scholastic Book Fair! It's a huge event in our school library and an amazing fundraiser as we receive 60% of the total sales in money to spend on new books and resources for the library.
Watch for the flyers coming this week...
Book Fair begins Tuesday, October 13th and runs until Friday morning, October 16th! Volunteers to help with running the cash desk are welcome. Please e-mail Mrs. Eby if you are interested in helping out.

Along with all the fun in the library, we are also working as a school to create our social contract for how we want the LM library to "look, sound and feel". It's been refreshing to see the enthusiasm and creative ideas the various classes have contributed to our contract. The tricky part will be to sum up our ideas into a school library motto that expresses our combined thoughts and sets the stage for a fabulous year.

HAPPY LIBRARY MONTH!