I'm running behind this week. Maybe it's the crazy weather!

I would like to tell you about a special program that is happening in April. I know, that's 3 months away, but they need YOUR help now! This is from their website: www.worldbooknight.org. Go there for more info.....

Welcome to World Book Night
We need book-loving volunteers to fan out across America on April 23, 2012! Just take 20 free copies of a book to a location in your community, and you just might change someone's life. Please sign up by Feb. 1.
The goal is to give books to new readers, to encourage reading, to share your passion for a great book. The entire publishing, bookstore, library, author, printing, and paper community is behind this effort with donated services and time.
The first World Book Night was held in the UK last year, and it was such a big success that it's spreading around the world! Please volunteer to be a book giver in the U.S. Sign up now to be a book giver.
Go to their website (www.worldbooknight.org) for help in Britt or Kanawha or another location on World Book Night or for more information.

There is a new library contest for Grade 1-4. We would like to help students to remember to return their school library books on time. Each time everyone in the class remembers to bring back their library book the class gets a sticker. When a class has 5 stickers the class decides on a special activity to celebrate. This might be a themed day such as PJ Day or Hat Day, or watching a short movie, or having a Read-In Party with popcorn and juice. It's what Mrs. Reiter and the class choose. We started on Wednesday, January 25th as it was a Day 1. Your child should have brought home a notice telling about the contest. Contact me at the school if you have any questions.

This week I will meet with 3-Bruns (watch a DVD based on the book Abraham Lincoln Comes Home by Robert Burleigh as an introduction to biographies) and 4-Hildman (locate and use the True-FLIX database on Iowa AEA Online) on Tuesday. On Thursday I will meet with the first graders and we will watch a power point program about the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, KS. (They wanted to see the real mummies that are housed in the museum!

Read Every Day!
Mrs. T. Reiter, K-12 Teacher Librarian

Some interesting facts....

Did you know...


• One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.


How do YOU fit into these facts?!?


This week I will meet with 3 classes on Tuesday. 2-Davoli will use magazines to find facts. 3-Zuehl will watch the DVD based on the book Abraham Lincoln Comes Home, written by Robert Burleigh and illustrated by Wendell Minor. K-Loeschen will listen to Chickens to the Recue, written and illustrated by John Himmelman and Max Cleans Up, written and illustrated by Rosemary Wells.
On Thursday I will be in Kanawha.

Happy Reading,
Mrs. T. Reiter, K-12 Teacher Librarian

New Year, New Books!

The new year [or really anytime of the year] is a good time to make a promise to yourself to read more. Whether it be books, periodicals, your e-book reader, your computer screen, to someone else, or your morning cereal box container - you can add more print to your life! Reading helps to improve fluency, vocabulary, and knowledge.

The Iowa Educators Consortium and the IASL [Iowa Assoc. of School Librarians] have once again sponsored the Iowa Book Award for 2012-2013. There are 4 age appropriate categories: Goldfinch, Children's Choice, Teen Choice, and High School Choice.

The purposes of the Iowa Choice Award are:
- to encourage children to read more and better books.
- to discriminate in choosing worthwhile books.
- to provide an avenue for positive dialogue between teacher, parent, and children about books and authors.
- to give recognition to those who write books for children.

The award is unique in that it gives children an opportunity to choose the book to receive the award and to suggest books for the yearly reading list.
Books chosen for the master list are those written by American authors within the last five years. Titles are fiction or nonfiction, with a wide range of interests and appropriate reading levels. No textbooks are included.

Below are the nominees in the Goldfinch [grades PK-3] division:

1. Louder, Lili by Gennifer Choldenko


2. Cat Secrets by Jef Czakaj


3. Bink & Golli by Kate DiCamillo


4. Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee by Roberta Edwards


5. The Boss Baby by Marla Frazee


6. Owen and Mzee: A Little Story about Big Love by Michelle Y. Glennon


7. Marley and the Kittens by John Grogan


8. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill


9. Purpilicious by Victoria & Elizabeth Kann


10. Monsters Eat Whiny Children by Bruce Eric Kaplan


11. Otis by Loren Long


12. Hot Rod Hamster by Cynthia Lord


13. Pearl and Wagner: Four Eyes by Kate McMullan


14. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughter by Barack Obama


15. Clementine, Friend of the Week by Sara Pennypacker


16. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein


17. The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich by Greg Trine


18. Watch Me Throw the Ball! by Mo Willems


19. Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee

Encourage your child to take a look at these nominees!

This week I will meet with the First Graders on Tuesday. We will listen to the book, How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills. On Thursday, K-Jass will listen to Eloise and the Snowman by Lisa McClatchy and Max Cleans Up by Rosemary Wells. The 2nd graders, 2-Tangeman, will use magazines to find information and present a fact to the class. We will discuss using magazine for information and the difference between fact and opinion.

HAPPY READING!

Mrs. Reiter, K-12 Teacher Librarian