Nikki Giovanni Rap for Obama

Very cool inaugural rap by child's author and poet Nikki Giovanni:

http://bit.ly/obamarap

4/5s in Library for Inauguration

The library was graced with the presence of the entire 4/5s group to watch the inauguration on our wall-size LCD monitor. We streamed the CNN version. It was awesome! The students were especially impressed by the canons! And Aretha Franklin's hat.

Want to watch the inauguration speech and swearing in again? Try the White House blog at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/

8/9s PowerPoints

The 8/9s are nearing the end of their Internet Research PowerPoint projects. They looked up information on the Internet ( see November posting for our four favored search engines) and put together the information they gathered into PowerPoint presentations. The results were very impressive and much quieter than usual!

For our next project, we are teaming with Sarah our science teacher to create PowerPoint presentations on scientist and/or inventors. Very exciting!

2/3s Checking Out!

Patti/Sara/Deb's class had their first library check out last Friday! It was an exciting time! Parents should have received a memo with library policies and the name of the book their child checked out. Remember: books are due again on Friday!

To get more info on library policies, please go to:

http://www.corlearsschool.org/educationalprogram/lib_policies.asp

8/9s Trustworthy Web Sites

http://www.askkids.com/

http://www.factmonster.com/

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace

http://kids.yahoo.com/learn

Parents - Help Your Children Return Books!

Hello Corlears' Parents:

From 4/5s to 8/9s - all the children are checking out books! This makes us very happy!

This year we are emphasizing that our Corlears School Library is a circulating library which means that the books are to be shared among our Corlears community. Which means that books have to be returned and checked out to other children.

Parents, please ask your children which day their library class day is. Then, please help them remember to bring their books back on that day. Here are some suggestions we have discussed with the children to help them remember:

1) Write a note and put it somewhere that you will see it.
2) Write library day on the family calendar.
3) Put books in your bookbag the night before library day.
4) Have the whole family help the student remember.

Our rule is:

You have to bring back a book to check out a book!

Thanks, Corlears Parents, for your cooperation in this important activity.

BTW, if your child finishes reading his/her book before the next library day, they are welcome to come to the library to check out new books! Also, library books can be renewed one time - without even being brought to the library!

And parents - we have a whole book collection on parenting! Come in and check it out!

Brooklyn Book Festival!

The Third Annual Brooklyn Book Festival is this Sunday, September 14th!

Meet:

Grace Chang: Jin Jin the Dragon

Raul Colon: Tomas and the Library Lady, My Mama Had a Dancing Heart, Angela and the Baby Jesus

Nina Crews: Snowball, The Neighborhood Mother Goose, Below

Edward Hemingway: Bump in the Night

Betsy Lewin: So, What’s it Like to Be a Cat? Duck for President, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type

Ted Lewin: Horse Song, Peppe the Lamp Lighter

John Bemelmans Marciano: Madeline Loves Animals

Chris Myers, Jabborwocky (adapted by), Wings, Jazz

Jane O’Connor: Fancy Nancy

Chris Raschka: Yo! Yes? Charlie Parker Played Be Bop and Five for a Little One

Jon Scieszka: Time Warp Trio, The Stinky Cheeseman and other Fairly Stupid Tales, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

(our very own) Marilyn Singer: Didi and Daddy on the Promenade, City Lullaby, Shoe Bop!

Mo Willems: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity; Elephant and Piggie, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy

and that's just for the kids!!!

Here's a link for the whole story:

http://visitbrooklyn.org/BookFestival/festival.html