Final Family Library Night of the Year

Please join us this Wednesday, April 23rd from 4-6pm for our final Family Library Night of the year. Families may check out up to five library books, as well as choose free books to keep at home. Arts and crafts and games will also be available for families to enjoy together. Our guest reader, third-grade teacher Mrs. Knaub, will present the book 7 x 9 = Trouble by Claudia Mills. The PTO meeting will follow in the library at 6pm. We hope to see you there!

Library Club Holiday Parties

During our holiday parties last week in after school Library Club, members decorated cookies and enjoyed hot chocolate, played games, and created crafts such as Rainbow Loom bracelets, duct tape projects, friendship bracelets, boondoggle, drawing and origami. Students consulted library books and taught each other how to make different crafts. Materials for all these projects will be available during our next Family Library Night on Wednesday, January 8th from 4-6pm for all students to enjoy with their families. Library Club members will also be available to assist with various projects. We hope to see you there!

Library Open for Students During Parent/Teacher Conferences

Nearly fifty WW students and their younger siblings visited the library on December 5th while their parents met with teachers for conferences. Students read independently and together, checked out books, and took 32 AR quizzes over the course of the day. We were happy to see how many students chose visit the library and read on their day off of school!

Track Your Child's AR Progress from Home

This week in library class students learned how to log in to their Home Connect accounts. Using Home Connect, students and parents can view reading goals, points, average percent correct, and scores on quizzes. Home Connect also links to the AR BookFinder, an online search tool that allows you to find out if there is an AR quiz available for a specific book, along with the level and points of that book. Please ask your child to show you how to log in following these directions: visit our library website http//wweslibrary.wix.com/wwlibrary, click on "For Parents" and then "Home Connect". Log in using your the AR username and password your child uses at school. We hope students and parents use this helpful resource to track Accelerated Reader progress from home.

AR Goals for Marking Period 2

Students have been setting their AR goals for marking period 2 in library class over the past week. Students will have until Friday, January 31st to reach their goal for marking period 2. Please ask your child what they selected for their new goal and why. After discussing the goal with your child, please sign and return the bottom portion of the blue reading goal reminder. If you have any concerns about the goal your child selected, please contact his or her classroom teacher or the librarian, Ms. Stokes.

Family Library Night

Family Library Night was held on Wednesday, November 13th from 4-6pm with our biggest turnout yet. Families choose free books to keep at home and checked out library books. At 5:30, third-grade reading specialist Mrs. DiJoseph presented on The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and other books by Kate DiCamillo. Mrs. DiJoseph read this book with her daughter and they both agreed it was one of the best books they had ever read. If you couldn't make it, be sure to check out the book trailer for this highly recommended book. The next Family Library Night will be on Wed., January 8th.

First Open Library Night of the Year

Many families visited the library on our first Open Library Night of the year, which was held on Wednesday, October 9th from 4-6pm. Families checked out books and chose books to keep from the Book Exchange. Some students took AR quizzes and one student even reached her goal! Also, our Guest Reader, fifth-grade teacher Mrs. Djakovich, shared one of her favorite children's books, The One and Only Ivan, a heartwarming tale based on the story of a real gorilla named Ivan who lived an the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Arcade. Find out more about this touching tale at http://theoneandonlyivan.com/.