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NEW Titles You Cannot Miss
Take a look at the titles by genre that will be available in the ASIJ ES Library in August. If you are at a local library or at a bookstore this summer, I strongly recommend these NEW titles.
HUMOR
ACTION/ADVENTURE
REALISTIC FICTION
FANTASY
SCIENCE FICTION
MYSTERY
HISTORICAL FICTION
Beginning Chapter
GRAPHIC NOVELS
NON-FICTION
Films on Demand
Classroom Video – Films On Demand is new to the ASIJ Libraries. This site has thousands of educational videos that are available 24/7. These videos are also iPad friendly. A direct URL link can be found on the password protected database page of this blog.
(Please contact the elementary library staff for the database password.)
2015 Sakura Book Bowl Champions
Congratulations to all 2015 Sakura Book Bowl participants! Competition was stiff this year and after four months of reading Sakura Medal Books, a quiz, preliminary and final rounds, we finally have a champion for each track. In both the preliminary and final rounds there were a few sudden death rounds and in the end it came down to some serious nail biting and one question.
Gr. 3-5 Visiting Author- Kate Klise
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Kate Klise will visit the ASIJ ES Library . Kate is an award-winning author who has received several nationally recognized awards. Her most recent series, Three-Ring Rascals was selected as a Junior Library Guild recipient. Her book, The Show Must Go On (#1 Three Ring Rascals) has been short listed as a 2015 Sakura Medal Picture Book.
An exciting tradition that always accompanies an author’s visit is a book signing by the author. Signed books make great souvenirs for your child. I am writing now to provide you with the opportunity to order books written by Kate Klise. Kate will sign purchased books during her visit.
If you are interested in ordering a copy of one of Kate’s books for your child in Grades 3-5, please send the amount due in a sealed envelope and please indicate which book(s) you are ordering. Clearly mark the envelope “Library Book Order”, child’s name and class and have your child deliver the envelope to the ES Library by Wednesday, March 11, 2015.
Each paperback is 1,000 yen.
The Library is Transformed into A Chocolate Factory
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, the library was transformed into Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory for Halloween this year. After guessing how many lollipops were on the lollipop tree, students either stayed to fill out a lottery ticket or were sent down the garbage shoot. Escorted down the shoot by an Oompa Loompa, students then had a chance to draw a golden ticket and win a 50th anniversary edition of the classic children’s book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Enter the Chocolate Factory
Wily Wonka Welcomes You
Pure Imagination
Into the Incinerator
Who will win the golden ticket and a 50th anniversary edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Recent Library Read Alouds
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Meet Your Librarian – Ms. Pretz
I
‘m Ms. Pretz, and I will be your librarian this year. My husband, Mr. Mitrisin, is the new primary visual arts teacher. We have one daughter, Zoe, who will begin her first year of college this fall. I’ve been an international educator at four international schools and have taught every grade PK-8 at some capacity. I’ve even taught a few ASIJ students, past and present. Most recently, I was the elementary librarian at The American Embassy School in New Delhi, India. I am excited to be your librarian, and I’m looking forward to getting to know all of your reading needs and putting great books into your hands.
TBT – Who Remembers Old Maid?
A big shout out to Valorie Fisher. Valorie recently found some OLD MAID cards at the and one of them was a librarian. She could not stop herself from messing with it a little bit!
That was then
This is now
Reading Matters
“Kids who don’t have educationally rich summers will be nearly three years behind their peers by the time they reach the end of the fifth grade… Much like we would expect an athlete or a musician’s performance to suffer if they didn’t practice regularly, the same thing is true for young people when it comes to reading performance.”
— Ron Fairchild, Founding CEO, National Summer Learning Association
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