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Teddy Bear Drive

30 November

Join us for our Spirit Assembly at 7:45 a.m. We'll kick-off our Annual Teddy Bear Drive, sponsored by the BW-PTA. If you'd like to participate, please bring your new and unwrapped teddy bears to school during the week of December 3rd through 7th, and we'll celebrate with a special Assembly on December 7th at 11 a.m. See our Teddy Bear Page for more information about this program which benefits children ill in hospital.

29 November

Our R.I.F. book distribution for grades K through 2 takes place in the Auditorium. Learn more about our R.I.F. program.

28 November

Teachers: Do some (free) book shopping! We have many duplicate, donated titles and deaccessioned books for you to add to your classroom libraries. We've moved the boxes to the Office workroom, so please browse and take books for your libraries.

Students: Select this link for help filling out Books and Beyond reading sheets.

New in our collection

In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden, by Jack Prelutsky, Petra Mathers (Illustrator).

Explosive World of Volcanoes with Max Axiom, Super Scientist, by Christopher L. Harbo, Tod Smith (Illustrator).

Math Fables Too : Making Science Count, by Greg Tang, Taia Morley (Illustrator).

The Girl's Like Spaghetti : Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes! by Lynne Truss, Bonnie Timmons (Illustrator).

Check out a 2006 Grand Prize winner of Scholastic's "Kids Are Authors" contest. Written and illustrated by 3rd grade students of Kingsland Elementary School in Spring Valley, MN, Problems with Pete the Pencil and Eddie the Eraser follows our young hero Bradly as he contends with strong-minded writing elements.

New in the Teachers' Library

Teaching Favorite Magic Tree House Books: Engaging, Skill-Building Activities for Exploring Fiction and Nonfiction Using These Popular Chapter Books, by Deborah Rovin-Murphy and Frank Murphy.

Crash, Bang, Boom: Exploring Literary Devices through Children's Literature, by Karen A. Gibson and Mimi Mandel. Crash, Bang, Boom explores 11 reading skills and literary devices through 55 popular children's books, using picture books examples. The skills and devices include onomatopoeia, alliteration, prediction, characterization, cause and effect, setting, simile, word study, inference and drawing conclusions, point of view and main idea.

Did you know?

You can access the library's catalog online from home. Selecting this link provides access to the basic search for our collection. The catalog is also available in a kid-friendly version.

Children's Book Week

November 12-18, 2007

The Children's Book Council encourages children to read daily to foster reading skills and the love of reading. Make time every day to read. We've got a list of five Thanksgiving titles to help you start!

Author Visit News

November 15th

We've shipped our orders off to Mr. Kump, who will be signing copies of his book and sending them to us soon. Look for your copy of Project-00 after the Thanksgiving Break.

November 8th

Our author's visit from Dow Kump was a great success. Learn more about his presentation and see pictures by selecting this link.

Mr. Kump's book is also an Accelerated Reader book. You'll find more information at his website, http://www.dowkump.com.

Books and Beyond
Kick-off Assembly!

November 2nd at 7:45 a.m.

We're ready to read! Thanks to all who joined us at the Kick-off Assembly. We have pictures of this year's launch of our reading marathon. It was great to see so many of our favorite book characters. We have links to the program guidelines and .pdf versions of the reading logs (K-3 and 4-5) which we'll use to record our titles and pages. Students: Turn in your reading logs to earn prizes from our treasure chest and watch your rocket zoom through the solar system on our school-wide chart, "Let Reading Take You Out of This World."

Photo credit: S. Moura

Special Appeal

Lincolns for the Library and A.S.B Firestorm 2007 Service Project (Kids Helping Kids)

October 30th

The library and A.S.B. have combined their efforts to collect "Lincolns" for the library starting this week. We would like to collect as much money as possible to donate to the families affected by the recent fires. A portion of the money collected will be used to purchase books for our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Grades K, 1 and 2 already receive free RIF books three times a year. The remainder of the money will be donated to charity through the A.S.B. service project to the Firestorm 2007 relief fund.

Please have your child bring his/her donations to the library. Children may bring donations at any time, not only on their library day! We will gladly accept "Lincolns," "Washingtons," or any other monetary amount that you can donate. If you wish to write a check, please make it payable to Benchley-Weinberger.

Thank you for your generosity.