This was the view on Wednesday 2 days before the library was to close it’s doors for the year. The line was out the door which was pretty much the norm all year long. I can only imagine what it will look like next year.
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READ ACROSS AMERICA 2014
Congratulations to Arturo Tovar for being this years first place winner of our ‘Many Important Hats Contest”. How creative is this hat? It’s like Cat in the Hat met Wicked met a superhero! Very cool.
Literature Fair
R.C. Centeno Elementary hosted its 1st Annual Reading Fair December 17, 2013. The purpose of the Reading Fair is to provide each student with an opportunity to share his/her favorite fictional story and demonstrate his/her knowledge of reading through a storyboard display. The goal of the Reading Fair is to encourage, promote, and enhance the reading experience across grade levels. Participation in the Reading Fair process will ultimately allow each student to have a creative and positive experience with reading that will develop into a lifelong love of reading.
BUILD-A-POTATO 2013
Every year the Build-a-Potato contest, held during our Library Kick-off week, gets bigger and better. This year we had over 200 submissions with 111 entries making it to the finals. I’m so glad I don’t have the task of judging all the wonderfully creative entries, I left that up to the judges.
Chime in and tell us which one is your favorite!
PIC OF THE DAY
One of the best parts of being a librarian is when you have former students come back to visit and all they can talk about is books. Priscilla and her mother came to visit one day before school had started this year, and her mother mentioned that Priscilla had finished all the summer reads I had given her in one week. So of course, I couldn’t let such an avid reader go without more books. One of Priscilla’s best qualities is that she pays it forward. Not only does she read to the younger children at her church and teaches them how to read, but she also passes the books on to her friends. She is a role model and librarian’s dream come true.
THE 2013 5TH GRADE IMAGINARIUM FIELD TRIP
I had such a great time chaperoning this group of 5th graders to the Imaginarium. They were a great group and worked really hard reading tons of book to earn their spot on the bus. By the look on their faces, I think they enjoyed it too. I learned a few things along the way — who knew they would get such a kick out of shining their shoes and we take for granted that the mall is a place all kids get to go to, but that is not true. For some kids this was there first time at the mall so that made it all the more special.