Saturday 6 April 2013

Family Literacy Night

Fairview Community School is holding a Family Literacy Night on Tuesday, April 16th from 6 - 8. Activities will include storytelling, poetry reading, board games, karaoke and reading. Free books will be given away to students and there will be free snacks. Join us for an evening of fun and celebration of literacy! 

Volunteers needed!

Do you have an hour or two you could spare each week? I'm looking for some help with shelving books in the library. The students and staff at Fairview usually sign out about 1000 - 1200 books each month and I don't always have time to put all of them away! All you need to know is your alphabet and decimal numbers. Please let me know if you have some free time!

Also, starting mid-June, I need a few volunteers to help "shelf-read" the library to get it in perfect order for next school year. We need to check most of the about 13,000 books in the library to make sure they are in the right spot so that teachers and students can find them when they need them. Again, all you need to know is your alphabet and decimal numbers. Please let me know if you have some time to help out!

School Library Website

I'm working on my Master's in Elementary Education through the University of Alberta. I'm just researching my final paper about designing a school library website. I'm getting very excited about all the possibilities a school library website has to offer and I am looking forward to starting one to benefit all of the students and staff at Fairview. I will be finished this course in the middle of April and will start building the website after that. It will be a long term project and I would love to have student and staff input. Let me know if you have suggestions of what you would like to see included!

Sunday 17 February 2013

Shelfari

I've just updated my Shelfari account. Shelfari is a great tool for keeping track of the books you have read and sharing your opinions about them with others. I mostly use it for novels so far, but am thinking of adding picture books to it as well. I think that one of the greatest things about literature is the sharing and connections that can come from reading. Check out my Shelfari bookshelf, read my reviews and see if you can find a book you are interested in reading. Maybe you will even want to start your own account!

Here is the link to my Shelfari account: http://www.shelfari.com/mrslyons/shelf


More books from the book fair

Another shipment of books from our book fair credit arrived and have begun to hit the library shelves and students' desks. Check out the pics and see if there are any that look interesting to you! One final order has been placed with Scholastic to use the remainder of our credit. I'll post pictures when those arrive :)





Tuesday 22 January 2013

Bookmarks!

Last week, both kindergarten classes made bookmarks during their visits to the library. We talked about the different ways we can take care of books so that they will last a long time and many students will be able to enjoy them in the library. Here are some of the ideas we discussed: 


1)      Use a bookmark instead of folding over pages
2)      Keep books in a safe place out of reach of young siblings        and pets
3)      Do not drink or eat while reading books
4)      Keep your library books in the same spot if you bring them
     home so you will know where to find them when it is time
     to return them
5)     Turn pages slowly and carefully
 
    Some of the bookmarks have already been sent home with students so they can use them while reading books at home with their family members. The rest of the bookmarks will be sent home tomorrow or next week.

Here are pictures of the bookmarks that have been made already (some students were absent, so their bookmarks will be ready next week):
 
 

Sunday 6 January 2013

Scholastic Book Fair, November 2012

We held a Scholastic book fair in our library from November 21-28, 2012. It was my first time running a book fair, so I was very excited about it. I quickly realized there was no way I was going to be able to do it on my own! I was very fortunate to have a number of parents, students, teachers, and other community members generously donate their time to help with the book fair. The efforts of the volunteers made the fair run smoothly and it was a great fundraising success for our school library. Thank you once again to all of those wonderful volunteers!!!

We sold about $2700 worth of books during the fair which meant we received a credit of about $1250 from Scholastic to use towards books for our library. Throughout the book fair, students made suggestions of books from the fair they would like to see in the library. All of the books they suggested will be added to the library along with many more. 

We will hold another Scholastic book fair in the library around the same time next year. Hope to see you there as a shopper, volunteer or both!

Here are some pictures of some of the books we got to keep from the fair. See if you can find one that you would enjoy! Also, there will be more books purchased with the credit from Scholastic arriving soon. I'll keep you posted about those through this blog! 

















First post!

Welcome to the Fairview Community School Library's new blog! I created this blog so we could have a place to share what is happening in our school library. I also created this blog so we could have a place to share our thoughts about our favourite books and authors, talk about what we are reading currently and have a place to access other information related to the joys of reading and learning. I hope you enjoy what you find on this blog. If there is something you would like to see added here, please let me know!

Mrs. Lyons