What a busy year we have had so far!  We have been doing Ladybug crafts with many of the nominees.  The one pictured is Mrs. Meehan's class's artwork for the book Big Truck Little Island.  We have done some book tasting with 4th a 5th grades.  Pictured here is Mrs. Tuero's and Mrs. DeGrandpre's class members who decided to check out a book they tasted at the event.  Finally, you see our very talented Pumpkin Design contest winners.  Pictured left to right are McKenzie M., Senia M., Bella P., Emma L., Suri H., and Alaina C.  Great work everyone!

The second grade was the first grade to return all of their library books so they were treated to a popsicle party as a reward!

Nothing like a little Harry Potter humor to help kids remember to bring their books back.  :)

We wrapped up the Mo Willems author study with baguette tasting for Kindergarten!  They each got two pieces of baguette and a choice from three different jellies.  Food in the library?  You bet!

5th graders participated in our Reading Cafe today.  These students from each of the three classes found something at the book tasting that they are going to check out and enjoy some more.  :)

It was St. Patrick's Day, but it was not luck that earned Mrs. Maher the Paraprofessional of the Year Award from the NH School Library Assocation.  She is creative, passionate, and caring.  She makes everyone at RMS better people just by being here.  We are so lucky to have her!

The snowflakes were softly falling in the library while Mrs. Dean's class made their polar bear scenes after reading the Ladybug Picture Book nominee, A Polar Bear in the Snow.

And the winners are...

Here are the top 5 (and 6 for 5th grade) finalists with their amazing designs!

Get ready for some sp(book)tacular designs!

Here are most of our bookmark contest winners!

The results of our year-long Teacher Book Battle are finally in!

It sure has been a whirlwind the past couple of weeks as we have been adjusting to remote learning.  All of us in the library (Mrs. Maher, Mrs. Tenters, and especially the stuffed animals) are missing our students so much!  Hopefully, seeing them will put a smile on your face.  (They had a fantastic time playing outdoors yesterday.  The weather was so nice! Hopefully, you got outside to enjoy it too!)

Thanks to the generous donation from an anonymous parent, one student that reads and reviews ALL the books on the 2nd-3rd grade Teacher Book Battle list will have a brand new ride!

We had 208 amazing designs for our first ever bookmark design contest and here are your 6 grade level winners!  Congrats to Renna, Caleb, Devin, Jasmyn, Ella, and Reyna!

The Ladybug voting has begun!

We are having a bookmark design contest!  Everyone will get a student designed bookmark in time for Christmas.

Brain breaks are my favorite!

Happy Halloween from the Creepy Carrots of RMS!

Our new sign is a lesson is reading the WHOLE thing.  I cannot tell you how many times I hear, "but it's not November" (or whatever other month is listed).

We are getting ready for a Spooktacular Halloween!

The sight of kids reading their books together on the Reading Rug will never grow old for me. <3

We have started reading the Ladybug Picture Book nominees to grades K-3.  Such great fun at the beginning of the year and the anticipation of which book will win is palpable!

The 5th graders all tackled a Breakout Box this week.  About half of the groups managed to break out in time.  The other half didn't beat the clock.  All of them learned (hopefully) some good lessons on how to work successfully in a group.

Check out the latest bulletin board and door decorations by the wonderful and fantastic Mrs. Maher!  Think Spring everyone!

Today we had our first correct student guess for our sticker mosaic!  Congratulations to Sharlise in 4B who correctly guessed hot air balloons!  The second picture is from 11/8/18, the first day that 4 teachers in the building saw the balloons!  Amazing!

Let's Stick Together!  

On Monday November 5th we will start our first Let's Stick Together sticker mosaic.  There are over 4,000 tiny stickers that everyone at RMS will work together to make a cool picture.  We'll give stickers out in library and classroom teachers will have them too.  We'll also put out a guess jar once the picture starts to come to life.  Should be a lot of fun!  How long will it take us?

The library underwent a lot of changes this summer!  We moved furniture and organized the whole collection into categories that will hopefully make more sense for kids.  Don't worry though, the Dewey Decimal System is still there, it just takes more of a supporting role now.  :)

The last weeks of library class has included more Breakout Box challenges and just plain enjoying good books.  4th and 5th graders did Breakout Boxes to find out which book won the Great Stone Face Award this year and 2nd and 3rd graders were doing a challenge called Little Red, trying to save grandma from the Big Bad Wolf.

Kindergarten teachers dropped off their students and were surprised to pick up a class of library mice.  Students had fun making a mouse mask after reading the Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk, which inspires kids to see themselves as authors and illustrators.

1st graders did a great job of playing a Memory game that challenged their book care knowledge.

Breakout Boxes!  All classes 2nd grade through 5th grade tried out our Breakout Boxes!  Most classes exhibited great teamwork and problem solving.  This was a great challenge and a lot of fun!

Teachers did some training on our new Breakout Boxes!