Monday, October 22, 2012

Same, same, same

Is it wrong that I am this week reading the same book to the kindergartners that I have done at least 9 years in a row?  It's Book, Book, Book by Deborah Bruss.  I love it.  We read it, make the animal sounds, and then act it out in a kindergartenesque Readers' Theatre. 

I love how they react to the story.  It's the first time for them, even though it's the 100th+ time for me.  Today as we were checking out books, there was this little guy walking around saying, "I already READ IT, READ IT, READ IT," just like the frog on the book.  Love it!

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Book Trailer

My very first book trailer! I'm so excited.  It's very rudimentary, and it took me all day, but I have to say that I like it!! And I hope it gets the kids interested in the book.  It's one of our Readers' Choice nominees, and I have to note, it was sadly the very last of the books left on the shelf.  Lots of copies of it.  But no more, I hope!! It just needed a little marketing (obviously my booktalk wasn't enough).


The book is Ellie Ever, written by Nancy Ruth Patterson.  It's about a girl who loses her dad and her home in a hurricane, and she and her mother start their lives over in Virginia.  Ellie's mom is learning to become a farrier, and Ellie has some adjustment issues at her new school.  It's a good story--I enjoyed the connection to our state and pictured Ellie living on that beautiful road I travel to get to Charlottesville.  Maybe she went to St. Anne's-Belfield or Covenant?  Her school has a different name in the book, but it could've been one of those.

In other library news, I have weeded all the way to the 700's and am just so pleased with the results.  After the weeding and re-labeling of (some crazy--thank you very much, FLR) call numbers, we're labeling each shelf with the call number range and the main topics on it.  I have to have a large chunk of time to weed, so I've been doing it on the weekends, which isn't bad, unless, you know, I'd like to actually have a weekend...

So I didn't go in this week, but I'm looking at November 6, Election Day, as my next big weeding day.  It's a work day for us, but since our school is a voting site, they don't really want us there.  It sounds like a perfect day to get lost in the Arts & Recreation section!