Yes, it is already time to schedule Ms. Sarah from the NPL to talk to the kids about the Summer Reading Program! Every year Wescott has had more students sign up for and complete the Winter AND Summer Reading Programs than any other school in the area! This is due to our great working relationship with Ms. Sarah!
All meetings will be over Zoom from 9-9:15 am.
The voters have spoken and we have the winners of our Book Madness tournaments! Grades 1-2 picked Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings and Grades 3-5 picked The One and Only series by Katherine Applegate!
Poetry Cafe is one of our favorite times of the year! At the end of April, we usually host a poetry reading for each class in the library. Mrs. Marsh goes all-out on decorations, which are made with help from the students. The library is transformed!
With Covid precautions, we know we can’t have the same type of event this year, but we still have a GREAT idea! We are going to SOAR away on poetry this April! The week before Poetry Cafe (which is usually the last week of April), students will be making kite decorations for their classrooms. We will use the kites to transform the space for the Poetry Cafe the following week.
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Exciting news!! Author Kate Hannigan will be visiting Wescott & Willowbrook 3rd-graders virtually on Tuesday March 16th from 1-2! Hannigan is the author of The Great Chicago Fire: Rising from the Ashes graphic novel, which ties in PERFECTLY with the 3rd-grade Chicago history unit.
Please click here to order an autographed copy of one of Kate Hannigan’s books. Please take special note of the delivery and ordering instructions: https://www.thebookstall.com/kate-hannigan-visits-wescott-and-willowbrook-schools
The Book Madness nominations for grades 3-5 are coming in and the brackets will be decided this weekend! The tournament opens next week for voting in grades 3rd-5th. The kids will be voting once a week until we have a champion! Check the grades 3-5 Book Madness Website for the brackets and voting results or the physical bracket outside the library.
Our mini-version of Book Madness for grades 1-2 was a HUGE hit with the kids last year, so Lisa Wolf and I are partnering again this year! It will be run through the Book Madness Website I built for grades 1-2. Students will nominate books for the tournament next week during library, then Lisa and I will set the brackets and voting will take place the following week. The brackets will be in the hall near the 2nd-grade classrooms
The Youth Media Awards were recently announced! Check out the winners!
Read more details and learn about the honor winners here. Check the winners out from our catalog here (I will be ordering copies of any books we do not yet own).
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World Read Aloud Day is Feb 3rd! “LitWorld founded WorldRead Aloud Day in 2010 in celebration of the power of reading aloud to create community, to amplify new stories, and to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right. Over the last eleven years, World Read Aloud Day has evolved into a global movement of millions of readers, writers, and listeners from communities all across the world coming together to honor the joy and power of reading and sharing stories, and continue expanding the definition and scope of global literacy.”
How are you going to celebrate this year? Check out information on virtual author read alouds!
Looking for a book to read for MLK Day? (Pictured here, Martin’s Big Words by D Rapport) Check our catalog, or use one of the following resources:
