Library, Ms. Delaney, 12-2-11
Book Fair
Thank you to the Book Fair co-chairs, Mary Jo Ramicone and Mary Ellen Staelgraeve, for our very successful Book Fair. About $10,000 in books were sold. The profits will be given to us in books and cash so we can buy books for the library. With the books bought with profits, the books that parents donated to classrooms & to the library, St. Cletus received about 175 new books for our children’s reading pleasure. In addition, we will receive cash to purchase other books. Your generosity enables us to have great books to offer our children. Who doesn’t like to read a brand new book?
Kevin Luthardt was our guest author and illustrator at the book fair. Mr. Luthardt is the author of several children’s books, such as, “Peep”, “Mine”, “Hats”, “Flying” & “Larabee”. He did a great presentation for our pre-school through 3rd grade students. He described the book making and illustrating process to them. He then led them through a drawing exercise where they made a robot.
Thanks to your generosity, several boxes of gently used books were donated to “Andrea’s Angels”, a charity affiliated with Anderson Books. They distribute these gently used books to needy schools throughout the United States.
The winners of our book mark design contest for the book fair received a $10 off coupon which they were able to use at the book fair. The winning entries designed a bookmark based on our “Books are Magical” theme. The creative winners were:
1st grade Jenna Battista
2nd grade Catie Ramicone
3rd grade Mary Jacobs
4th grade Maddie Cranny
5th grade Emily Rausch
6th grade Ryan Kallal
7th grade Jack Gostowski
8th grade Jocelyn Arciniegas
Students in 5th-8th grades start the school year doing book talks of books that they read over the summer and then present them to their class. Students with the best book talks were chosen to record their book talk using our Flip cameras. Those videotaped book talks, with the help of some of our TLC students & Mrs. Flickinger, were edited with theme music added & then broadcast during the book fair. The winning book talks were presented by:
Jessica Pulciani 5-116
Grace Luxem 6-118
Christian Davila 6-119
Natalie Nicoletti 7-120
Matt Franklin 7-122
Chase Nacker 8-121
Jocelyn Arciniegas 8-123
We also gave away a free book from students from every homeroom. The winning students had to either come closest in a guessing game or write a book review. The students who won free books from the book fair were:
3 Pre-AM Isabel McKeehan
4 Pre-AM Charles Wangard
4 Pre-PM Jake Alessi
All Day Pre Brendan Bergnach
K-99 Elliot Derat
K-98 Christian Arias
107 Carson Tischler
108 Jack Magee
109 Mike Addari
110 Anthony Alvarez
111 Michael Sommerfeld
112 Liam Ludden
114 Danny Doheny
115 John Golden
116 Jennifer Schrader
117 Sarah Schultz
118 Ryan Morfoot
119 Rhyan Komsthoeft
120 Cailey Muldoon
122 Lauren Addari
121 Meg Kern
123 Olivia Vranek
Thank you for your support of St. Cletus Library!
Library, Ms. Delaney, 1-27-12
Overdue Books
I will be sending out notices next week for overdue books from the 2nd quarter. Please have your child return these overdue books as soon as possible. I would much rather have the book returned than to collect money for lost books. Thank you for your cooperation.
Monarch Book Nominees
The St.Cletus Library was awarded a grant by the Illinois School Library Media Association. The grant included a copy of each of the 20 books nominated for the 2012 Monarch Award. The books nominated each year are outstanding picture books and early readers. School children in the state of Illinois vote for their favorite Monarch nominee. In order to vote in the election the students need to read five or more of the books. We are using our library time to read at least 5 of the Monarch nominees so all of our students in these grades will be able to vote in the election to be held in February. This exposes the children to some great books such as “A Birthday for Bear”, “Duck at the Door” and “Memoirs of a Goldfish”. Check out the other titles on the list at www.islma.org/monarch.htm
Caudill Book Nominees
St. Cletus students in grades 5th through 8th are participating in the Caudill program again this year. Twenty books are on the nomination list and if a student reads 3 of these books, they can vote, along with other eligible students in the state of Illinois, in the election to be held in February. The top vote getter wins the Caudill award. All 20 of these books are available in the library. See www.rcyrba.org for additional information and for the complete list.
Battle of the Books
Students in 5th & 6th grades are participating in the 6th annual Battle of the Books. Eight books have been selected to be Battle books. Teams will be established and each student will be expected to read at least 2 of the books on the Battle list. We will work on this during our library time but students are also expected to be reading these books in their free time. Our teams will compete against other teams in their homeroom & then the winning team from the other homeroom. Our final Battle will be against St. Francis Xavier School in May when our winning 5th grade and 6th grade teams compete against their winning teams. Our library has a limited number of copies of these books but they are also available at your local public library. Each child was given a book mark listing all of the Battle books. Thank you for your cooperation and your help in encouraging your children to read!
Six Flags Great America Tickets
Students in Kindergarten through 6th grade are eligible to participate in the Six Flags reading program. Students need to read 6 hours from now until 3-1-12 to earn a free ticket to Great America. Forms were handed out during library and require a parent’s signature when they are returned by March 1st. This is a voluntary program designed to encourage reading by earning a free ticket to Great America.
Thank you.