Teen Read Week readers!

Teens at West Orient, and their teachers, LOVE to read, as evidenced by these photos snapped today during Read Across West Orient!

Teen Read Week Tuesday-Friday events

Tuesday anyone who checks out a book will be entered in a drawing to win a free book or other prize from Mrs. FB's prize drawer.

Wednesday is no overdues drawing day, so make sure you turn your overdues in or renew them before Wednesday. Winners of the no overdues drawing will get a $5 gift card to Borders - one per grade level!

Thursday, we'll make duct tape bookmarks in the library at lunch recess.

On Friday I will choose one winner at random from all the WOMS students who have made a comment on this blog during the week and that person will get a special prize - a scary books pack - two of the Cirque du Freak books + a Cirque du Freak graphic novel - and some other fun prizes! If you make a comment, be sure to put your first name and last initial so I know who you are.

Teen Read Week starts tomorrow!

Tomorrow (Monday) - students who completed all the levels of summer reading should come to the library during recess to get your ice cream!

Tuesday anyone who checks out a book will be entered in a drawing to win a free book or other prize from Mrs. FB's prize drawer.

Wednesday is no overdues drawing day, so make sure you turn your overdues in or renew them before Wednesday. Winners of the no overdues drawing will get a $5 gift card to Borders - one per grade level!

Thursday, we'll make duct tape bookmarks in the library at lunch recess.

On Friday I will choose one winner at random from all the WOMS students who have made a comment on this blog during the week and that person will get a special prize. If you make a comment, be sure to put your first name and last initial so I know who you are.

Poetry Friday - The Leaves

It's that time of year again. So beautiful but so bittersweet.

The Leaves

The leaves had a wonderful frolic.
They danced to the wind's loud song.
They whirled, and they floated, and scampered.
They circled and flew along.

The moon saw the little leaves dancing.
Each looked like a small brown bird.
The man in the moon smiled and listened.
And this is the song he heard.

The North Wind is calling, is calling,
And we must whirl round and round,
And then, when our dancing is ended,
We'll make a warm quilt for the ground.

Anonymous

Pretty exciting weekend for me!

This last weekend was the Oregon Association of School Libraries conference, and it was pretty exciting. For one thing, I got to meet some authors, which I totally love. I got to meet Gene Luen Yang, a Printz winning author, and his co-author Derek Kim. They were super cool guys and full of interesting information about comics and graphic novels. I found myself liking graphic novels a whole lot more after talking with them. Unfortunately, I did not have my camera when I was hanging out with them at breakfast. But it was superdy cool, I promise you. Here's a cartoon Gene drew of himself - not quite the same as a picture, but there you have it, it's all I've got to give you.

I also got to meet Gail Carson Levine who has written several books that I've really enjoyed, and who talked about some others I've never read. She shared quite a lot of poems she's written for a future book that I cannot WAIT to get my hands on. They're all modeled after William Carlos Williams' poem, "This is Just to Say". It's going to be dark and hilarious. Awesome. I DID have my camera when I met her, so here's a picture. She's a TINY woman, I am not really THAT giant!




I also got an award at the conference. It was announced in the spring, but the ceremony was at the conference. I was chosen as Oregon's Secondary School Librarian of the Year. It was pretty exciting to get the award :) The second picture was taken at the ceremony with my husband and my parents who all came to celebrate.

Next month I get to go to the American Association of School Librarians conference in Charlotte, NC. I won't be getting any award there, but I hope to meet a lot more authors - I'll have my camera handy ALL the time there, you can count on it!

Teen Read Week next week!

WE HAVE A GREAT WEEK PLANNED AT WOMS FOR TEEN READ WEEK!

We're celebrating with a library special event every day!

Monday: students who completed all the levels of summer reading should come to the library during recess to get your ice cream!

Tuesday: anyone who checks out a book will be entered in a drawing to win a free book or other prize from Mrs. FB's prize drawer. There will be three winners drawn from each grade level.

Wednesday: no overdues drawing day, so make sure you turn your overdues in or renew them before Wednesday. Winners of the no overdues drawing will get a $5 gift card to Borders - one per grade level!

Thursday: we'll make duct tape bookmarks in the library at lunch recess. We've got lots of great colors to choose from and you can decorate your bookmark however you like.

Friday: Mrs. FB will choose one winner at random from all the people who have made a comment on this blog during the week and that person will get a special prize. If you make a comment, be sure to put your first name and last initial so I know who you are.