May Media Messages

 Congratulations to all those students who participated in the 10th Anniversary of Battle of the Books at Queen of Angels!

3rd Grade               4th Grade

Katie Cronic              Priyanka Varghese

Dustin Papuga           Jani Christopher

Parker Bickell             Katie Osborn

Nekha Duraisamy     

5th Grade                 6th Grade

Monserrath Juarez      Ryan Sullivan

Georgia Aguirre          Alexis Scoggins

Elizabeth Betteker       Kyle Downie

Samantha Warner

We are all very proud of these students and a big thank you to the parents that volunteered as chaperones and drivers!

Library Volunteers Needed for Fall

When you sign up to be a volunteer at our first school meeting in August, please consider volunteering in the media center. Now that we have no aide, we could really use the help!

Book to Movie Recommendations

 It's true that the book usually IS better than the movie! Encourage your kids to read the book BEFORE they are allowed to see the movie.  Coming out or out in the theaters now is:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

 The Lorax by Dr. Suess

We celebrated Read Across America Day and Dr. Suess's birthday. Staff dressed as book characters. In anticipation of our visiting author after Spring Break, Vicky Alvear Shecter, I came as an historical fiction character: Cleopatra. :)

 Link: to How To Raise a Lifetime Reader

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/new/how-raise-reader?utm_source=newsletter01.12.12&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feature1

Sites to help children learn to read:

http://www.storylineonline.net/

Find out more about Battle of the Books!

Students form teams of 3 to 4 and divide a list of books that have been selected by local area media specialists from the Archdiocese. Students compete in a schoolwide event in the Spring, and the final competition takes place in May! This is a wonderful way to assure that your student reads all year.

 Here is a link to the Battle titles for each grade:

 http://www.sjnrcs.org/MediaCenter/BattleoftheBooks0708/tabid/544/Default.aspx

Birthday Books

     Check out the SJN website under Media Center, and find out how you can celebrate your child's birthday and also contribute to the school community!

Here is a link to more information:

http://www.sjnrcs.org/MediaCenter/BirthdayBook/tabid/545/Default.aspx

                                  DATABASE ACCESS 

If your student wants to do research from home, they will need to bring home the database passwords that allow them to go on to the database.  Every student has been given the passwords to take home.

Here is our newest database!

http://tfx.grolier.com/splash 

 

Michael Sullivan :

teacher, librarian, chess instructor, author, storyteller, expert on boys and reading.

http://www.talestoldtall.com/B4B.html

   Michael  has compiled lots and lots of books that are successful with boys!  Take a look at some of the many books that will appeal to the young male reader in YOUR family! 

Using the Dewey Decimal System

 When you take your student to the public library, encourage he or she to locate their own book by using the Dewey numbers, or the first three letters of the author's name in the fiction section.