Students in grades K-3 have been practicing choosing and then borrowing library books following the guidelines of “Just Right Books”. Just Right Books focuses our beginning readers to be challenged while they read so that they can practice the skills they have learned, although beginning readers should not be overwhelmed with too difficult a text. Some mistakes are okay; too many and beginning readers will not enjoy the reading and most often will not understand what they read. When these beginning readers are reading books within a level with very few mistakes, with fluency, and with understanding it may be time to move to more difficult text.

Here is a handy resource on leveled books to help parents and teachers choose “Just Right Books”
http://home.comcast.net/~ngiansante/

Hour of Code Dec 8th-Dec 14th
Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 8-14) our school is joining the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code. In library classes all 5th and 6th grade students will be programming. Last year, 15 million students tried computer science in one week. This year, we’re joining students worldwide to reach 100 million students!

See http://hourofcode.com/us for details, and help spread the word.