FAR OUT!

The library has never looked more colorful!  Join us this week for the Jordan Bank Annual Spring Scholastic Book Fair and have a far out adventure!  If your child received a gift certificate from the pumpkin decoration contest and you have misplaced it, no worries!  We have a list of the award winners.  Don't forget to stop by on Wednesday night with your families to shop the book fair from 4-7.

Peace, Love, and the Scholastic Book Fair!

The Scholastic Book Fair will be here from February 22nd-26th.  The library is a groovy place to be for the book fair.  We have great titles including Pete the Cat, Ranger in Time, Fly Guy, and many, many more high- interest, lower level books appropriate for Kindergarten and beyond.  The library staff will be hosting a Family Event on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 from 4-7 PM.  This event is a chance to bring all family members to the Jordan Bank Library-Media Center to help choose some amazing titles for family reading.  Children will visit the fair during their regularly scheduled library time starting Tuesday, February 23 through Friday, February 26.  Please know your child can shop at any time during that week as well.  So grab your platform shoes, mini-shirts, bell-bottoms, tye-dye, and fringe vests and join us for a Groovy good time at the Scholastic Book Fair!

Non-Fiction Informational Text

This week the children began understanding the difference between Non-Fiction and Fictional Texts. We examined two books, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems, and Naked Mole Rats by Jody Sullivan Rake. The children were challenged as I read both aloud to recall:

1) Where does the naked mole rat live?
2) Does the naked mole rat like the sun?
3) What do naked mole rats eat?
4) How old do naked mole rates live to be?

We filled out our best guesses in an anticipation guide before becoming experts and listening to two types of read alouds, a fiction and non fiction book. The children made the connection that fiction books are read for entertainment while non-fiction books are read for information.

The children left library this week knowing that non fiction books are informational books that can teach us new information.