Week 9 and 10

We had an exciting two weeks in the Lower School Library. We spent time preparing for our special guest, Brian Floca, and then the day came this past week where we got to actually meet him! So fun!

During library time the week before we spent time teaching all of the Kinder-4th grade classes all about Mr. Floca. We discussed his Caldecott winning book, Locomotive, browsed and read some of his other books, and had the kids sign this welcome sign you see above. We then hung it in the Middle School Rotunda on the day he visited for him and all to see. I later heard that he really liked it!

 Here he was reading some of his book, Locomotive, to the Kinder, Primer, and First Grade classes.   

 He then did a little bit of drawing for the kids and talked about how he became an author and an illustrator. He drew a picture of a train for them and as you can imagine he is pretty good and fast at drawing trains. Ha!

 Ta-Da! 

You know what is even cooler? At the end of the day we were given this picture he drew to hang up in the library! Isn't that so cool!?      

     Later Mr. Floca came to visit us in the library so some of us librarians had to get a picture with him!  Overall, everyone really enjoyed his visit and we felt honored to have him come to our school. 

With Halloween being this past Friday, we rounded out the week enjoying some fun and spooky Halloween stories. Here are some of the books I shared with the classes. 

Click, Clack, Boo! A Tricky Treat By Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin

Read to Pre-K, Kinder, and Primer 

Monster Party by Annie Bach

Read to Kinder, Primer, and First Grade

Not Very Scary by Carol Brendler

Read to Pre-K

  Skeleton For Dinner by Margery Cuyler

Read to First and Second Grade

The Monsterator by Keith Graves

Read to 3rd and 4th Grades

One thing I have discovered is no matter what age the kids are, they always love Halloween stories, and you know what? So do I! Hope you all had a great Halloween!