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Are you enjoying this wonderful summer weather? If it gets too hot I suggest going down to the Parmly Library to read in air-conditioned comfort.

I love to read month

Thank you to all who attended our Family Reading Night. Although it was a cold night, the warm chili and enthusiastic readers kept everyone in good spirits. The 3rd Annual Book Swap was a great success with many wonderful choices. Members of Elder Grove Student Council delighted all with fun online reading games. If you missed Mr. Novasio, Mrs. Dorhauer, Mrs. Pugh or Mrs. Green reading a story, you can still see and hear it. Click on the archive button at live@thegrove which can be found on the Elder Grove Website under Activities at Live@thegrove. This is the same spot where you can see live video when we are streaming an activity. You will find a calendar of activities that will be streamed in the future, on that page as well. Keep Reading!

I Love to Read Month

We are excited that it is almost February. We hope it brings warmer weather but we know it will bring many exciting events as well. We will kickoff the month with author and illustrator Caroline Arnold. She has published over 140 books, mostly non-fiction and many about animals. We have many of her books in the Elder Grove Library. The middle school students are using her books to find information for their research papers and the primary students are reading her Animal World series and will try their hand at creating similar art next week. We invite everyone to a breakfast at 7:30 on February 1st to meet Caroline Arnold. She will give 4 presentations that day to the kids. Check the website for times. Check back to the website and this blog to make sure you don't miss any of the wonderful events planned for I Love to Read Month.

Shelf Elf is busy at The Grove

The Elder Grove Shelf Elf has been very busy lately. He has given out the Shelf Elf Award to many classes the last 2 months. Last week, Mrs. McMorris's class was so neat and tidy they cleaned up both the computer lab and the library without even being reminded! This week the award goes to Mrs. Kangas's class as they were running very short of time, but made sure that they checked the lab and stacked the chairs. There was excellent team work happening last Monday at 3:00. The Shelf Elf says Thank You and he could not keep the library neat without you :)

Open House/ Book Fair a huge success!

We exceeded our $3000 goal by $400 during our Scholastic Book Fair on Thursday night. Our Open House was very well attended and the gym was packed with anxious readers all evening. We will be able to add over $2,000 worth of books to the library from the earnings of this fair. Was there a book at the book fair that you wanted to read, but were unable to purchase? Is there a new book out that we do not have in the Elder Grove Library that you would like to read? If so, please reply to this blog with the information so that I can try to purchase it for our library. Remember, if you want to see if the book is on AR and what level and points the book is worth, go to http://www.arbookfinder.com/default.aspx.

Enjoy the last couple weeks of summer. August is bittersweet as summer is almost over, but the excitement of a new school year is here!