Librarian:

Hours of Operation:

Accelerated Readers- Our students now have the added benefit of locating books according to their reading levels.  The books are coded with dots to help them choose a book that will be beneficial to their levels.  This helps them meet success and score well on their AR quizzes that they are taking.  Congratulations, Readers!

Welcome:

Thank you so much to the wonderful parents who have donated to our library. Dylan Koh and his mom did some book shelf cleaning and have added many books to the shelves.  Thank you Koh family!  We will enjoy these new additions.

Funding to the library has been cut by quite a bit this year, but the library will be doing some fund raising to help these shelves continue growing.  I attend a group, through Region xi, where I choose books, read and critique them for the publishers, and then I can purchase these same books at a large discount for The Cabaniss Library.  The books are both fiction and non fiction, and have added greatly to the shelves.

I want to thank our weekly volunteer, Mrs. Sheri Matthews for her time spent working in the library.  She is now helping us out on Tuesday through Friday!  Mrs. Matthews, Cael Richardson's mom, is also in the process of becoming Bridgette's handler!  This way, we hope to get Bridgette back on campus.  Thank you to all the children and parents who are always asking for her.  She has not been a happy camper at home because she misses everyone here! You can tell she is anxious to come back to school.  Remember that Bridgette is a certfied therapy dog, and the children will be trained in how to behave around any strange dog. 

I also want to thank Mrs. Sandy Powe, Haley Sexton's grandmother and a retired elementary librarian, for coming in on Mondays and getting so many books shelved.  You rock Mrs. Powe!!  Books that are off the carts and on the shelves is a true present to The Cabaniss Library.

We do have our other wonderful animals back in the library this year.  Dolly the rabbit has returned along with Tiny the Tarantula.  Come on in and visit them and pick up a good read while you're here!

We are looking forward to some wonderful stories and arts and crafts to go with those tales this year.  Our times will be a bit longer this year so that we can complete our projects!  We will meet from 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.  If we need a bit longer, that can work out also!

This year's dates are:  September 29, 2011

November 10, 2011 ( Also with PE and will run until 8:00 p.m.

December 8, 2011

February 23, 2012

and April 26, 2012

Hope to see many of you there for these most enjoyable times together after hours!

Book Checkout Policy:

We will be visiting the library, as a class, one day a week. The first graders come to the library on Mondays, the second grade classes come on Tuesdays, the Wednesday classes are all third graders, Thursday finds the kinder kiddos in here, and Friday classes belong to the fourth graders.  The children are also encouraged to come to the library for individual return, check outd, quiet reading time and research at the discretion of each teacher

The kindergarten, first  and second grades will be checking out one book when they visit the library.

The third and fourth grades will be checking out two books - one fiction and one nonfiction- this year.

Please note this great site for viewing information and trailers for this year's Bluebonnet books.  We will begin a "push" to read these books in October.  The reading must be finished by January, 2012 with FIVE books from the list to qualify to vote online for their favorite book.  This is open to third and fourth graders.

Just go to this site - and enjoy!  :Bluebonnet books 2011