Monday, April 15, 2013

This Week in the Library...

Next Monday, April 22nd, is Earth Day; so, this week in the library, we'll be reading books about taking care of the Earth!

Third Grade will be listening to The Great Kapok Tree  by Lynne Cherry.

One day, a man exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how “all living things depend on one another” . . . and it works.









Fourth Grade will be listening to Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg.

Young Walter litters and refuses to sort trash for recycling, until he dreams of an overcrowded and polluted future which terrifies him into taking care of the earth.












Fifth Grade will be listening to a book talk about Hoot by Carl Hiaasen.

Unfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from the school bus, carried no books, and–here’s the odd part–wore no shoes. Sensing a mystery, Roy sets himself on the boy’s trail. The chase introduces him to potty-trained alligators, a fake-fart champion, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes with unnaturally sparkling tails.

Monday, April 1, 2013

This week in the library...

This week month in the library, it's National Poetry Month!  Check back this week and throughout April to find out about all kinds of great poetry books and resources!  Happy April!