Library Corner By Geri Shaw, Ladera Librarian
Summer is upon us and that means more time to relax and enjoy a good book! This summer, I am encouraging students to read with my Summer Reading Program. Reading logs will be coming home with your child soon. For every twenty books your child reads, they can choose one new, free book when they return to school in September. When tracking student reading, chapter books are worth one book per each 100 pages. The student that reads the most books during the summer will receive a special prize! For book lists and recommendations, please visit the Library page on the Ladera website. There are lists from the school district by grade as well as great links to other resources. There is a link to the Orange County Public Library site that has a great page for kids, including access to online books and beautifully-read audio books. Click on the children’s services link for lots of neat information. Barnes & Noble and the local public library will also have summer reading programs. Stop by and pick up reading logs at the end of May/beginning of June. Put together a folder with all three book lists in it as an easy way to keep track of your child’s reading. Each book your child reads can be listed on all three. Remember, books that you read aloud to your child count toward their reading total as well. Reading more challenging texts aloud to your child helps enrich their vocabulary. Whether you think a book may be above or below your child’s reading abilities, allow them to read it anyway…this is what reading for personal enjoyment is all about. Finally, I would like to say a big thanks to the parent volunteers that came in each week with classes to help during library time. Sima Bhakta, Reena Bhargava, Shawn Zambon, Cindy Mathes, Robin Steinmetz, Cindy Lee, Michelle Fong, Steve Wayt, Alison Fong, Lisa Thoresen, Laurie Biele, Jenny Roettger, Dana and Shirley Crandall, Charlene Pitchess, Kathy Ghanouni, Marilyn Jones, Robin Martinez and Nina Patel keep the library running smoothly. Also, thank you to the parents that came in to help with our Reading Counts book labeling project. A special thanks to Elizabeth Stevens for organizing the Birthday Book Club all year. The students loved seeing the new largerformat photos in the hall. Nearly 150 Leopards donated books to the library this year. Most importantly, a big thanks to Lori Palmer and Janine Rilum, the organizers of our fantastic Mrs. Nelson’s Book Fairs as well as the parents who staff the fair. These are so well-run and are very successful financially. The funds earned from the book fairs are used to purchase books for the Ladera Library. These funds are the key to keeping an updated collection of books available for our students.
Have a great summer and remember to keep reading!
Birthday Book Club The Ladera Birthday Book Club welcomes the following new members who recently donated a new book to the Ladera Library in honor of their birthday: Kylie Bell Julie Chun Bella Coats Samuel Coulston Alana Edmondson Jed Fernando Anastasia Gershenovitz Misty Kang Sloan Kiley
Olivia Knobbe Jason Lam Cade Libertoski Ali Raoufi Dylan Ryan Sooji Shin Ashley Teng RJ Winters
Congratulations Battle of the Books Finalist Gold Medal Teams: Miss Whitfield's Fourth Grade Team (Zack Heller, Christian Sul, Ashley Palmer, Leah Messinger and Justin Wayt) and Fifth Grade Team (Malik Faez, Paris Carillo, Dani Lowder, Lauren Nguyen, Misty Kang, and not pictured; Andrew Mathes)
Ladera News, June 2009, Page 5