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