EMS Library News November 2011
by Mrs. Eiland
November 08, 2011
We’ve been really busy in the Elkhart Middle School Library. 5th and 6th grade writing rotation students are finishing up their poem books and working on illustrations. We plan to have them completed by Dec. 17th and sent in to the publisher. Hopefully they will be returned to us the middle of January.
One reading rotation, which consists of three literature circles, meets in the library. We are finishing The Light in the Forest by Conrad and will be starting I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Craven. Each student has a “job” for discussion group such as Summarizer, Discussion Director, Literary Luminary, and Word Wizard.
Mrs. Harlow and her art students brought over their pencil drawings for display in the library. Also Mr. Hendersen is displaying projects turned in to illustrate a book they read. Come in and look at all their hard work!
We have many new books arriving in the library. We added many nonfiction books that were so needed. 8th grade Language Art students will be researching significant people during World War II, and these books will fill in some of those gaps. Also we added some nutrition nonfiction books as well as hunting and fishing books that are often requested.
This year with the assistance of Mrs. Finn, we are promoting William Allen White Award books. Each year a list is sent out to each library for the students to read. In March they vote for their favorite book, as do all of the students in the state of Kansas. The winning author then goes to Emporia, the home of William Allen White, a journalist for the Emporia Gazette, to speak to the children of Kansas. If the student reads 2 books that month, Mrs. Finn will honor them with a luncheon where everyone eats and book talks the books they have read. This has been very successful. Thank you Mrs. Finn!
