Six Flags Great America Reading Program
The Six Flags Great America Reading Program for children in Kindergarten through 6th grade is nearing its end. The forms completed with the student’s name & signed by a parent are due on Thursday, March 1st. Please send them to school. Thank you for your help in keeping track of your child’s reading log. I should receive the tickets by mid-May & I will distribute them when I receive them.
Monarch Voting
The Monarch Award is an award given to outstanding books for children in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. It is an award voted on by Illinois school children who have read 5 or more of the nominated books. This year, the library received a grant giving us all 20 of the books nominated for the award. We have been using our library time since the beginning of the school year reading some of the nominated books. All children in those grades are now in the process of voting for their favorite book. The votes are tabulated & the winning Monarch book will be announced in a few weeks.
Rebecca Caudill Book Award
The Rebecca Caudill Book Award is another award given to outstanding books for children in 5th through 8th grade. Twenty books are nominated for the award & students can vote in the Caudill election if they have read 3 or more of the nominated books. The winner of the award will be announced next month after children throughout the state of Illinois vote in February. Last year’s winner was “The Hunger Games”. Books on the Rebecca Caudill list are usually very good. The Caudill list is an excellent source if you are looking for goods books for your children to read. Their website is www.rcyrba.org.
Battle of the Books
Our Battle teams have been formed for students in 5th & 6th grades. Seven of the 8 books on the Battle list are also Caudill books. Students are busy working with their teams during their library time to make sure that all the books on the list are being read by at least 2 team members & they use their library time to read their assigned books. The Battle competitions will begin in April. The children are very excited about the Battle & the books selected. Your students in 5th & 6th grade are expected to read at least 2 books on the list. Thank you to the many parents who have been going to their local libraries for Battle books when our library’s copies are checked out.
Library, Ms. Delaney, 4-27-12
Overdue Books
Overdue notices were sent out this week to those children whose library books are overdue from the 3rd quarter. Please return them as soon as possible or send in payment if the book/s is lost. Remember I would always rather have the book returned! Thank you for your cooperation.
Six Flags Great America Reading Program
One hundred thirteen of our students in grade Kindergarten through 6th grade will be awarded free tickets to Six Flags Great America. To be eligible, these students had to read 6 or more hours. Congratulations to our readers & thank you to parents for keeping track of the hours. Tickets will be distributed in mid May when I receive the tickets.
Monarch Award Results
One hundred sixty six of our students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade were eligible to vote in the Monarch election. Students were eligible to vote if they read 5 or more of books on this year’s Monarch Award nominees. These books are a selection of great picture books & early readers. Votes from the children at St. Cletus were combined with the votes of school children throughout the state ofIllinois. This year’s winner was “Shark vs. Train”, a very funny book that our students enjoyed.
Caudill Award Results
Forty five of our students in grades 5th through 8th were eligible to vote in the Caudill election this year. To be eligible, students had to read at least 3 of the books on the Caudill nominee list. Our students’ votes were combined with other students throughout the state of Illinois to determine the winner. This year’s winner of the Caudill Award was “Powerless”. “Powerless” was also one of our Battle books this year.
Battle of the Books
Fifth & sixth grades have completed the 1st round of the Battle of the Books. The 2nd round of the Battle will be Friday, April 27th. The winning team from each homeroom will battle each other. The winning team from Room 116 is Awesome Dynamite Ninjas whose team members are Enrique Fuentes, John Kane, Jessica Pulciani & Emily Rausch. The Sour Patch Kids, whose members are Emma Dahl, Jake Gamboa, Jack O’Brien & Ava Riccione, will represent Room 117 in the 2nd round. The winning team from the 2nd round will represent St. Cletus when we battle St. Francis on May 10th at St. Francis vying for the traveling Battle trophy.
The winning team from Room 118 is The Band of Misfits. Their members are Patrick Kane, James Ramicone, Andy Schramka & Emily Wiet. El Tigre is the winning team from Room 119. Their members include Jack Burke, Tajia Fiolka, Ryan Kallal & Rhyan Komsthoeft. These two 6th grade teams will also battle each other on Friday, 4-27-12. The winning team of this Battle will represent St. Cletus in the competition against St. Francis on May 10th at St. Francis.
Summer Reading Programs
The staff at La Grange Library has been visiting our school talking to our younger children about their summer reading program. Their theme this year is “Reading is so Delicious!!!”. The children have been very excited about the programs that are planned. You do not need a La Grange Library card to participate. Any student from toddler to those entering 6th grade can sign up at La Grange Library beginning on June 4th. Please consider doing so.