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Spring Book Fair Ensign Olympics Recap Featured Book Fair Books! New Collections Activity Tables Parent Resources

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Spring Book Fair 2014: March 10 thru 14

Join us at our Spring Book Fair! Both teachers and students will be given a chance to preview this years carefully chosen selection and create a wish list. Parents can help a teacher fulfill their wish list for their classroom by purchasing a book on their favorite teachers list and placing it in the teachers bag.

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March 10: March 11: March 12: March 13: March 14:

All Book Fair proceeds go towards the improving your school 3-4 PM Monday library! (Which has the lowest budget in the district). Current 3-4 PM Tuesday goals include updating the biog1-7 PM Wednesday raphy and animal sections of the library, and a Smartboard. Thank 1-5 PM Thursday you for all your support and we 9-1:15 PM Friday hope you have a great time!

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The Spring Book Fair

The Ensign Olympics were Amazing!

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Ensign Olym- 1 pics Recap

Spring Book Fair Preview

Our Ensign Olympians were Incredible. As a school we topped 300,000 minutes of reading and physical fitness! That is beyond amazing! Great job everyone!
The Gold Medal Team is.Team Snow Leopard with 115,000 minutes of physical fitness and reading! They win Olympic Parties during Library Time next week and Gold Medals! In second place was Team Polar Bear with 106,000, they win world key chains, and in 3rd place was Team Mountain Hare with 80,200 minutes! Everyone will get certificates of participation. Our Ensign Olympians are amazing!

New Collections Whats Popular Activity Tables & Prizes Links & Donate

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Spring Book Fair Preview

Sew Zoey Series
Have you heard of Zoey yet? This series is already popular at the Ensign Library with 3-4th grade girls. Its the story of Zoey, an aspiring clothing designer who doesnt have any natural talent for sewing and must rely on taking classes, lots of practice, and determination. Although the covers look really cheesy and super sweet, not all is perfect in Zoeys world. She is learning to navigate bullies, friendships, and the dangers of technology. I highly recommend this series! A perfect magazine to go with it, is KIKI, which can be found right here in our Ensign Library!

Clarice Bean by Lauren Child.

Clarice is a not to be missed unique character who is featured in both picture books and chapter books. Fans of Ivy and Bean will love Clarice and her interesting perspective on life.

Spirit Animals Series

Students loved book 1 in this series, by local and very popular author Brandon Mull. So they will be eager to read this second book, which is by another author. As will be each book in this series. Every wondered what your Spirit Animal might be?

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New Collections
Dealing with and Prevention of Bullying Books
The amazing staff at the Salt Lake City School District Media Center surprised all of the Librarians in the district with the news that they had been awarded a grant! Each school library media center was granted a budget for purchasing anti-bullying books! A lesson for each grade will be presented by myself, as part of the grant requirements, and this new collection will be such an asset to our school! Thank You!

Coretta Scott King Award books

What was missing from our library? This amazing collection of award winning books! Now we have almost all of them! The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. The award commemorates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood. Source for quote http://www.ala.org/emiert/ cskbookawards

Need a Book for Reluctant Reader? Otis Dooda by Ellen Potter has my seal of approval. It is full of the gross stuff that boys love, but is surprisingly well written and had me laughing my head off!

What kinds of books are popular in the Ensign library?

Lego Books Baby Mouse Graphic Novel Series by Jennifer Holm Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney Ripleys Believe it or Not. Magic Treehouse Series by Mary Pope Osborne Fairy Books of any kind Mercy Watson Series by Kate DiCamillo The Amulet Graphic Novel Series by Kazu Kibuishi Emily Winsnap Series by Liz Kessler All books by Mo Willems Bigfoot & Sasquatch Books Fancy Nancy books by Jane OConnor National Geographic for Kids Magazine

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Activity Tables in the Library

DUCT TAPE PROJECTS

ORIGAMI PROJECTS

PUPPET PLAY WRITING & PRACTICE 3D MAPS ARE BACK COLORING TABLE

Prizes in the Library! How can students get them?

#1 Enter the Monthly Contest
Each month of the school year there is a contest to create something that has to do with reading, libraries, and literacy. See me in the library or my website: http://bit.ly/1emmjXW for information about the current months contest. Prizes awarded based on grade: K-2 and 3-6 will be judged separately.

#2 Check out Books at the Public Library

Sweet Branch Tell them you go to Ensign to get a Special World Stamp. Bring this to me for a prize. Any other Library Please bring me the receipt to exchange for a prize.

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Web-links & Passwords
The Pioneer Online Library http://pioneer.uen.org/k12/ Login: Pioneer Password: Student This site features access to World Book Encyclopedia, Soundzabound (for music for projects), and Pre-School Pioneer (learning and games for Pre-K to K). World Book Encyclopedia http://www.worldbookonline.com Login: saltlakedistrict Password: student Follet E-Books http:/wbb05129.follettshelf.com Username: ebooks password : saltlake

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Ensign Library Catalog http://bit.ly/QyVlRK You can access all e-books from here as well, without a password. Just click on Catalog, then Follett Shelf on the left option bar. Mrs. Baumans Library Website http://ensignschoollibrary.weebly.com/ See my website for links to homework helpers, games, and technology help. You can follow my blog to check out the events in the library. Mrs.Baumans Library Twitter https://twitter.com/ensignlibrary Ensign School Homepage http://ensign.slcschools.org/ Salt Lake City School District Homepage http://www.slcschools.org/

How you can help your School Library..

Volunteer: Book Fair!! I really need some volunteers for the upcoming book fair. Email Sonja Hales sonja_hales@aol.com Donations: The library is constantly seeking: Cozy furniture like bean bags, blankets, big stuffed animals. Books! Prizes of every kind. Ink for our color printers! Strange decorations (like tribal masks) or kites! A mural! Know anyone who can paint one?

Tech Volunteers
I am teaching a ton of information literacy on the computers. Which can be both confusing and distracting for many of the students. I would love volunteers for technology units. Contact me to help out!

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