 THE GOLDEN OWL AWARD
FOR THE WEEK OF May 14th,
HAS BEEN AWARDED TO
MR. MALARET'S 4th GRADE CLASS FOR BEING SAFE, RESPONSIBLE, AND RESPECTFUL IN THE LIBRARY.
 THE GOLDEN OWL!
Special thanks to Mrs. MacMillan in the Learning Lab for designing and creating the wonderful owl which will visit the winning classroom each week. Thank you to 4th grade student Clare for giving our owl an ideal name. Dr. Whooo!
WORLD BOOK ONLINE
Students can now access the World Book Encyclopedia online in their classrooms and from home.
World Book Web is the online version of the World Book Encyclopedia. It includes World Book Student, Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos and World Book Kids.
Remember marye stars will need a user name and password to access the encyclopedia.
BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB
THANK YOU to all the families who have together donated 140 new books to our library as part of the Mary Silveira Birthday Book Club. Although the Birthday Book event took place on December 2nd it is never too late to join the Birthday Book Club!
Thank you to the Mary Silveira Home and School for running this program and to this year’s Birthday Book Club parent volunteers Mary Colombo, Rachel Stengel, Julie Kritzberger and Julie Caputo for their support of the MES library.
STARS OF THE WEEK
Mary Silveira classroom Stars of the Week are now celebrated in a display in the library.
Please stop by and see this week's shining stars.
 |  WHEN DO WE VISIT THE LIBRARY? Monday CHAPMAN, HU, LUM, MALARET, SAKELLAR Tuesday RITSCHER, CAMARDA, CAMPAGNA, VAN DEUSEN Wednesday CASE, HODGE Thurdsay PALMER, FRANKLIN, JONES Friday CHARTON, DIGIROLAMO, BECK/RYAN, PRESSON  Classes visit the library once a week. Kindergarten students check out one book which is due the following week. Grades one through five check out two books and have the books for a two week period. It is strongly recommended that one of the two books is a ‘reading’ book, either a ‘red dot,’ (emerging reader), ‘blue dot,’ (transitional reader) or regular fiction chapter book, as appropriate for their individual reading level. Books may be renewed once, but the book must be brought to the library in order to be renewed. As students return their books they may check out new books. If students have returned their books they are welcome to stop by the library anytime during the week to sellect new books. An overdue list is generated weekly and sent out to the classes. A student whose book is overdue for over four weeks will receive a notice home, along with a bill for the book in the event that it has been lost.   | Thanks to this year's SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR proceeds our students now have a wonderful new carpet in the library to enjoy their books on. Thank you to the Book Fair Organizers, Volunteers and all our Silveira families.
 THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF OUR SCHOOL AND LIBRARY THROUGH THIS YEAR'S SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR. It was an astronomical success! Special thanks to Corie Gerney, Elisa Corr, Amanda Harvey, Julie Kritzberger and Jeanenne Ray for all their stellar work on this out of this world event! MARY E. SILVEIRA
STELLAR READERS New to Stellar Readers? Here's how it works:
Stellar Readers is the Home and School sponsored MES Reading Club for students in 1st - 5th grades. The program is split into 3 grade groups: 1 & 2, 3rd, and 4th & 5th.
1st and 2nd graders keep a log of 24 fiction books they have read between October 4th, 2011 and March 12th, 2012.
1st and 2nd Grade Stellar Reader Information
3rd grade students read any four of the following 3rd grade book selections: The Get Rich Quick Club by Dan Gutman Esio Trot by Roald Dahl Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Sciezka Magic Half by Annie Barrows Clementine by Sara Pennypacker Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blue 
4th and 5th grade students read any four of the following 4th / 5th grade book selections: The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper No Talking by Andrew Clements Where the Great Hawk Flies by Liza Ketchum Heat by John Lupica 
Students may pick up their sign up / LOG sheets anytime in the library and have until March 12th to read four books.
Stellar Readers culminates with a celebratory end of the year party for all students who complete their reading logs and return them to the library by March 12th, 2012.
I would like to thank parent volunteers Mary Colombo, Anne Anderson and Cindy Kredo-Brown for creating and supporting this great program to promote reading at MES, and to all our parents for encouraging their children to participate.
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