…Yes, and the start of AR happened to fall on my birthday! Awesomely convenient. The students and staff had a great time and we are very fortunate to have had such a great event to celebrate reading (and my birthday)!!!
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THE CLASS OF 2015 IN THE LIBRARY
Class of 2015 thank you for making my years in the library so enjoyable. Nobody says it better than Dr. Seuss!
PIZZA HUT BOOK IT PRINCIPAL CHALLENGE
It just goes to show that our amazing staff will do anything to motivate our kids to read and is always willing to take challenges and make it fun and engaging. Children who read and are read to help build great public schools and every school day we work on trying to find ways to instill in our children the love of reading.
The Pizza Hut Book It challenge was our attempt to win 100 copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid the Long Haul. So we climbed the roof and Mrs. De Los Santos read excerpts from the book. While we didn’t win that prize we won even more! Our students read 103,119 AR books this school year!
ART for AUTISM AUCTION
April is Autism Awareness month, and to raise awareness and money, Rodolfo Centeno held it’s first ART for AUTISM AUCTION. Our students, staff and parents really came together to make it a successful event. We shared stories about staff members whose children have autism, we shared information about autism and library books about autism and students painted puzzle pieces which were later exhibited in our “gallery” and auctioned off to the highest bidders. In all we raised $546.66 to be distributed to three local Autism awareness groups – My Sunny Gardens, UBC Autism Group and the Laredo Autistic Center. It was such a success we hope to hold it annually and garner more support. The students learned a lot and became very sympathetic to this cause. It is our hope that events such as these will help develop character and build an environment of tolerance and acceptance. Thank you Centeno staff, our families and students, and the community awareness groups who helped us in our endeavor. Special thanks to Mr. Juarez, Ms. Ada Perales, Mrs. Rosas, Coach Hernandez, Ms. Molina and Ms. Yancy.
LIBRARY KICK OFF WEEK – GEEK READ DAY
On Wednesday, September 17th the library held it’s annual “Geek Read” to kick-off the opening of the library fo rthe brand new school year. Students were asked to “geek out” their uniform. Each class was asked to choose one finalist and pictured are the top Geek Boys and Geek Girls!
Boys from L-R – Moroni Hernandez, Tomas Garcia, Jose Ramos, and Brandon Velasco
Girls from L-R – Carolina Pena, Samantha Zambrano, Jazmin Mercado and Jacqueline Flores
Our winners were Kinder student Tomas Garcia and 1st grader – Samantha Zambrano. All the contestants did a great job and we look forward to next years event!
EOY SHELVING
My bright idea for shelving books at the end of the year, and it was something the 5th graders could help me with. 🙂
PIC OF THE DAY
One of the funniest and strangest things that happened this year was the hiding of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Up to 20 at a time. We found them everywhere. Hidden in the non-fiction section behind other books. Hidden in tubs that contained class sets. Hidden with the audiobooks. We aren’t exactly sure who was hiding them but we have our suspicions, and we don’t exactly know why they were hiding them but it did make for some comic relief.
