Well, the school year is most certainly up and running in the Riverdale Library! Here are a few updates for the month!
Book Fair Success!
We would like to offer a GIANT thank you to the Riverdale community! During the week of conferences and the Pumpkin Run, we sold 621 books to students, families, and staff members! We didn’t quite reach our goal of selling 650 books, but we consider it an “Out of this World” success anyway! Students enjoyed hearing a space riddle each day and 12 lucky students won free books from the book fair from their correct riddle guesses. Many teachers received books for their class libraries from students and families as well! We were able to purchase 45 books from the book fair for the library and will still have about $1,500 worth of books to purchase through Scholastic for the remainder of the year. Thank you for your support of the Riverdale Library during the book fair!
Student Destiny Accounts
Did you know that 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade students and staff can create their own account in our library’s system called Destiny? In just a few minutes, students and staff can have access to their accounts so that they can see materials they have checked out and their due dates! In addition, you can build personal reading lists, recommend books to other people who have accounts, and post book reviews for the entire district to see! As far as library systems go, Destiny is pretty forward thinking in offering these social media tools! Stop by and see us if you are interested in creating an account!
CCBA
Each year, students across the state of Colorado are encouraged to read titles that are nominated for the Colorado Childrens’ Book Award! This year we have 20 fabulous books—10 picture books and 10 junior novels—to choose from! Voting will be difficult because so many of them are great choices! All of the titles are available for check out in the Riverdale Library! In February, students will have the chance to vote for their favorite book. In order to vote, students need to have read or heard 3 of the titles. Stop by and see us if you are interested in reading the CCBA titles for this year!
Circulation and Statistics
We have been as busy as ever in the library this year! We worked with Mrs. Walp’s kids for animal inquiry/PhotoStory projects, introduced first graders to TumbleBooks, helped 2nd graders navigate the library and created Destiny accounts with them too! We have also been working with a group of students in Ms. DeYoung’s class on inquiry projects and have used the 10 iPads with the Kindergartners and Fish and Frog preschool classes! We have also supported 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes in selecting their book project titles based genres (mystery, adventure, and fantasy). This is all in addition to the numerous walk-in students we see each day! The heart of a successful library program is the ability to impact the learning going on in the school on a frequent basis. It is a wonderful feeling to contribute to student success at Riverdale!
Notable Statistics
Books checked out in October: over 2,300! Books Checked out since the start of the year: over 7,350!
New Books are on their Way
In addition to the new books we have from the book fair, we have over 100 new books from a recent book order from Mackin. We recently placed an order with Rainbow Books as well. We will be expecting to have our order of about 165 new titles just after winter break! Stop in and see us if you are interested in checking out a new book!
Be sure to check back with us next month! Thanks for reading our blog!
Mrs. Lott
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Thanks for your support!
We are overwhelmed to see the INCREDIBLE support of our Riverdale families during the book fair! Thank you so much for supporting our library! Because of your purchases, we will be adding about 35 new books from the fair to the library for all students and staff to enjoy! We will also be able to order more books to the library through Scholastic throughout the year from the profits. And...our KIDS benefit by having great new books to read! You continue to amaze us! Thank you!
Statistics from Book Fair!
Books sold: 621
Dollars brought in: about $4,500
Library benefit: about $2,000 in "Scholastic Dollars"
Many, many thanks! :)
Statistics from Book Fair!
Books sold: 621
Dollars brought in: about $4,500
Library benefit: about $2,000 in "Scholastic Dollars"
Many, many thanks! :)
Monday, August 29, 2011
Welcome Back to School!
We are super excited to see students in the library again! After completing inventory, accounting for each of our more than 12,000 items, we worked on seeing all classes for an orientation session and the first of MANY opportunities throughout the year to check out great books! On our first day, we saw 6 classes and checked out 313 books and magazines! What a great start to the year!
Library Hours for 2011-2012
This year, Mrs. Lott will be at Riverdale on Mondays, Tuesdays, and every other Wednesdays. We are very grateful that Miss Bonnie is able to be in the library each day so that the library can remain open during most school hours! Please feel free to stop in and visit us during out open hours:
Mondays and Tuesdays—7:45-11:00 and 12:00-2:45
Wednesdays—8:00-11:00 and 12:00-1:15
Wednesdays—8:00-11:00 and 12:00-1:15
Thursdays and Fridays—8:00-11:00 and 12:00-1:30
iPad 2’s are Here!
We are pleased to announce our first 10 iPads in the library! iPads are a high interest, 21st Century tool for engaging learners of all levels and we are excited to begin using them with students at Riverdale. At the present time, teachers are allowed to check out a set of 5 iPads to address small group instruction in the classroom.
Thank you, TumbleBook Readers!
A few dedicated students logged on to TumbleBooks over the summer and read, read, read! Thanks to an overwhelming positive response to this interactive database of e-books, we will continue to subscribe to TumbleBooks this school year! A big thanks goes out to: Jessica Vieth, Anthony Vieth, Hnubcis Moua, Jalyne Denton, and Anna Beltran for their summer reading! They have received prizes for their efforts!
Library Volunteers
We would love to have volunteers in the library this year, as we always appreciate help with shelving books and often have other tasks that we can ask for assistance with. We may also be looking for volunteers to read to groups of students on a regular basis this year. Due to district security measures in keeping our students safe, we now require volunteers to fill out an application packet to volunteer in the building. If you are interested in being a library volunteer, please stop by the office and pick up a packet to begin the process! J
Book Fair in October!
Once again, we will be hosting the Scholastic Book Fair during the week of Fall Conferences in October! This is a great time to connect students with interesting, affordable titles and support our library as well. Look for advertising around the building in late September for book fair hours!
Online Blog link
I will be posting all newsletters this year on my Riverdale Library Blog, which is right here at: http://lottsofbooks.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking us out online! J
Here’s to fantastic books and a fantastic new year!
Yours in Reading,
Mrs. Lott and Miss Bonnie
Friday, May 20, 2011
Final News of the School Year!
Please click here to see the final Riverdale Newsletter in Glog form! Thanks!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
April Library News!
It is hard to believe that spring has sprung, and that is true in the Riverdale Library too! We have several fun library activities to report out on since our last update!
CCBA Voting
The results are in and we have Riverdale Elementary’s winners for the nominated Colorado Childrens’ Book Awards for 2011! Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle was by far the choice for best picture book! The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo won for the junior novel category. The state-wide winners are: Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle and Rick Riordan’s The Last Olympian for junior novel! Riverdale submitted 260 votes to contribute to the awards! Thanks to our students and teachers for reading these wonderful nominations for the year! This is a fun way to read some really great titles! And the books for next year’s Colorado Childrens’ Book Awards will be ordered soon!
Library Lover’s Month
February was Library Lovers’ Month and in the library we celebrated by growing a “heart tree” of the titles and authors we love! We collected 287 hearts for our tree, each listing the student or staff member’s name, title and author of the book! Some of our hearts from Ms. Younger’s students were even created using Tagxedo! Thanks for sharing your favorites with us!
Read Across America Day and Mystery Reader Week!
On March 2nd, we celebrated author, Dr. Seuss in the library! We hosted two very special guest readers, Mrs. Jeanne Clements, Mrs. Lott’s mother, and Mr. John O’Leary, also known as Riverdale’s very own “Papa!” Classes who visited the library for a guest reader on this day were: Ms. Younger’s Class, Mrs. Crouch’s Class, Ms. Piche’s Class, Mrs. H’s afternoon Class, and Mrs. Hestermann’s Class! Thanks for your participation!
Students who checked out books on this day were able to select a Dr. Suess goodie to take with them. (These prizes were purchased with PTO grant money. Thanks so much for the support of our WONDERFUL PTO parents!) We had a circulation of 275 items on March 2nd! This is about a 38% increase above our average daily check outs!
We also had fun guessing who our “Mystery Readers” were throughout the entire week! Thanks to: Ms. Erin Dolan, Mrs. Sarah White, Mrs. Christy Walp, and Mrs. Alice Parker who volunteered to read a sample of Dr. Seuss’ books to the students each morning! Three lucky students who guessed the Mystery Reader correctly were selected each day for fun Dr. Seuss prizes!
These winners were: Jeremy Thompson, Juliana Velasquez, Mason Ross, Alicia Gallegos, Briona Payan, Vanessa Graves, Chase Kascak, Kaycey Stephen, Alexus Patton, Gavon Vogt, Makenzie Lebsock, and Arden Howard! Thanks for participating!
Volunteer Thanks!
We offer a GIANT THANK YOU to our wonderful volunteers who help us with shelving library materials! These ladies are a great help to us~Felicia Losli, Kathy Henson, and Joann Fonseca. Thank you very much! We appreciate your help!
Notable Statistics
• Books checked out in February: 2981 (about 212 per day!)
• Books checked out from August-February: 20,472
• Classes and small groups served through librarian in Feb.: 54
• Percentage of those classes that involved technology: 43%
• Classes and small groups checking out with Miss Bonnie in February: 23 classes, 26 small groups
• Year to date students served in the library (not counting walk in traffic): 12,757! Wow!
Battle of the Books News!
As of our meeting on March 15th, the participating team members and sponsors have read a cumulative 14,246 pages in the 10 titles we are reading! As our season begins to come to a close, we will have our final school battle on April 13th at Riverdale during the school day. We will then send our winning team on to the District Battle on April 27th at Silver Creek Elementary in the evening. We will celebrate our accomplishments for ALL BOB participants with an ice cream party in May!
Collaborations with Librarian
Mrs. Lott recently worked with 14 first graders to extend their knowledge about plants. We had 3 different plant experiments in the library and created group Photo Stories to share with we learned about the scientific process with all first grade classes.
Second graders have recently created Glogs (online posters) for creative writing and showing what they learned in science. Look for a link to their work on the library website in Google soon…
Fifth graders also recently came to the library to review information literacy skills associated with features on non-fiction texts. We had a great time doing a group jigsaw to teach each other all of the different features!
Looking ahead…
We are looking forward to a busy last couple months of school with research and projects. Mrs. Lott and Mrs. G will be guiding an evening activity during PTO’s Turn Off the TV week. Hope to see you at the school on Wednesday the 20th of April!
Thanks for taking time to read this blog post!
CCBA Voting
The results are in and we have Riverdale Elementary’s winners for the nominated Colorado Childrens’ Book Awards for 2011! Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle was by far the choice for best picture book! The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo won for the junior novel category. The state-wide winners are: Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle and Rick Riordan’s The Last Olympian for junior novel! Riverdale submitted 260 votes to contribute to the awards! Thanks to our students and teachers for reading these wonderful nominations for the year! This is a fun way to read some really great titles! And the books for next year’s Colorado Childrens’ Book Awards will be ordered soon!
Library Lover’s Month
February was Library Lovers’ Month and in the library we celebrated by growing a “heart tree” of the titles and authors we love! We collected 287 hearts for our tree, each listing the student or staff member’s name, title and author of the book! Some of our hearts from Ms. Younger’s students were even created using Tagxedo! Thanks for sharing your favorites with us!
Read Across America Day and Mystery Reader Week!
On March 2nd, we celebrated author, Dr. Seuss in the library! We hosted two very special guest readers, Mrs. Jeanne Clements, Mrs. Lott’s mother, and Mr. John O’Leary, also known as Riverdale’s very own “Papa!” Classes who visited the library for a guest reader on this day were: Ms. Younger’s Class, Mrs. Crouch’s Class, Ms. Piche’s Class, Mrs. H’s afternoon Class, and Mrs. Hestermann’s Class! Thanks for your participation!
Students who checked out books on this day were able to select a Dr. Suess goodie to take with them. (These prizes were purchased with PTO grant money. Thanks so much for the support of our WONDERFUL PTO parents!) We had a circulation of 275 items on March 2nd! This is about a 38% increase above our average daily check outs!
We also had fun guessing who our “Mystery Readers” were throughout the entire week! Thanks to: Ms. Erin Dolan, Mrs. Sarah White, Mrs. Christy Walp, and Mrs. Alice Parker who volunteered to read a sample of Dr. Seuss’ books to the students each morning! Three lucky students who guessed the Mystery Reader correctly were selected each day for fun Dr. Seuss prizes!
These winners were: Jeremy Thompson, Juliana Velasquez, Mason Ross, Alicia Gallegos, Briona Payan, Vanessa Graves, Chase Kascak, Kaycey Stephen, Alexus Patton, Gavon Vogt, Makenzie Lebsock, and Arden Howard! Thanks for participating!
Volunteer Thanks!
We offer a GIANT THANK YOU to our wonderful volunteers who help us with shelving library materials! These ladies are a great help to us~Felicia Losli, Kathy Henson, and Joann Fonseca. Thank you very much! We appreciate your help!
Notable Statistics
• Books checked out in February: 2981 (about 212 per day!)
• Books checked out from August-February: 20,472
• Classes and small groups served through librarian in Feb.: 54
• Percentage of those classes that involved technology: 43%
• Classes and small groups checking out with Miss Bonnie in February: 23 classes, 26 small groups
• Year to date students served in the library (not counting walk in traffic): 12,757! Wow!
Battle of the Books News!
As of our meeting on March 15th, the participating team members and sponsors have read a cumulative 14,246 pages in the 10 titles we are reading! As our season begins to come to a close, we will have our final school battle on April 13th at Riverdale during the school day. We will then send our winning team on to the District Battle on April 27th at Silver Creek Elementary in the evening. We will celebrate our accomplishments for ALL BOB participants with an ice cream party in May!
Collaborations with Librarian
Mrs. Lott recently worked with 14 first graders to extend their knowledge about plants. We had 3 different plant experiments in the library and created group Photo Stories to share with we learned about the scientific process with all first grade classes.
Second graders have recently created Glogs (online posters) for creative writing and showing what they learned in science. Look for a link to their work on the library website in Google soon…
Fifth graders also recently came to the library to review information literacy skills associated with features on non-fiction texts. We had a great time doing a group jigsaw to teach each other all of the different features!
Looking ahead…
We are looking forward to a busy last couple months of school with research and projects. Mrs. Lott and Mrs. G will be guiding an evening activity during PTO’s Turn Off the TV week. Hope to see you at the school on Wednesday the 20th of April!
Thanks for taking time to read this blog post!
Monday, January 24, 2011
February Library News!
Shout Outs to Our Students!
The following students visited the Public Library between one and three times over winter break. The forms turned in represented 56 library visits and 107 books read! Fantastic!
Fourth Grade-Brandon Winter
Fifth Grade-Danielle Gonzales
A GREAT BIG CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU goes out to Nicole Peinado-Maldonado who won a Borders bookmark contest last fall. Because of her artistic abilities, the library was given a $100 gift card for the bookstore! We purchased 7 wonderful books from Borders in her honor! Come and check them out!
Library Activities
The past couple of months have been fun in the library! We have enjoyed spreading the word about out new online e-book subscription to TumbleBooks with our teachers and students! You can log in from home easily to take advantage of this wonderful database of books and activities! Here’s how!
Go to the Riverdale Homepage at: http://www.riverdale.adams12.org/
--> Click on “Library” on the left hand side --> scroll down and click on “TumbleBooks!”
Once you get here, just log in with our school username: riverdale and password: raccoon (all lowercase) You can then explore the hundreds of books and games available! Have fun!
Speaking of visitors, we have recently enjoyed the company of a couple of Colorado Authors! Justin Mattot was here on January 25th to do 2 large group assemblies for our K-5 students as well as writer’s workshops for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. We really enjoyed his lively presentations. We will also host David Kronk on February 7th when he will visit with Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd graders for grade level writing workshops. He is sure to please our youngest readers and writers. These visits are paid for through our book fair profits (THANKS RIVERDALE COMMUNITY!!!) and fit into our school improvement goal of supporting writing!
Thanks to our AMAZING Volunteers!
We couldn’t have a great library without our volunteers who stop in each week to shelve books and help us out with other tasks! Christin Herzing, Felicia Losli, and Debbie Vieth all have helped us out recently. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We appreciate your commitment to our students. If you are interested in helping us out, please contact Mrs. Lott at dana.r.lott@adams12.org or call the library at 720.972.5588.
Library Statistics!
This time of year allows us to reflect on half of the school year to see the impact we can make in the academic achievement at Riverdale! Here are some stats we are proud to report!
* Number of books checked out from August-December— 13,642!!!
* Average number of books circulated each day—198.8
* Number of classes co-taught—294
* Average number of classes and small groups served daily—6.4
Battle of the Books
The following students visited the Public Library between one and three times over winter break. The forms turned in represented 56 library visits and 107 books read! Fantastic!
Preschool-Paige Fisbeck , Oliver Stanton, Ewan O’Reilly
Kindergarten-Ayden Martinez, Eden Jones, Emylee Acunto, Joe Vitopa, Ivan Gonzales
First Grade-Kylie Winter, Jonah Spakes
Second Grade-Anastasia Bejarano, Michelle Ngo, Gianni DaSilva, Eric Lerma, Jessica Vieth, Justin Crosby, Gideon Jones, Lauren O’Connor, Zach Kramer, Alexia Sotelo, Jefferson Arias, Ella Spakes
Third Grade-Jay Tapp, Nate Acunto, Zakary MichalsFourth Grade-Brandon Winter
Fifth Grade-Danielle Gonzales
A GREAT BIG CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU goes out to Nicole Peinado-Maldonado who won a Borders bookmark contest last fall. Because of her artistic abilities, the library was given a $100 gift card for the bookstore! We purchased 7 wonderful books from Borders in her honor! Come and check them out!
Library Activities
The past couple of months have been fun in the library! We have enjoyed spreading the word about out new online e-book subscription to TumbleBooks with our teachers and students! You can log in from home easily to take advantage of this wonderful database of books and activities! Here’s how!
--> Click on “Library” on the left hand side --> scroll down and click on “TumbleBooks!”
Once you get here, just log in with our school username: riverdale and password: raccoon (all lowercase) You can then explore the hundreds of books and games available! Have fun!
We have also been busy with teaching fifth and fourth graders how to write and post fabulous book reviews on our library catalog called Destiny! What a terrific way for students to offer up their writing for an authentic audience! We have many wonderful reviews posted—check out the Destiny Quest catalog through the Library Homepage as well! These are just a couple of the amazing learning that happens in the Riverdale Library on a daily basis. As always, you are welcome to stop by and see us! We LOVE visitors!
Speaking of visitors, we have recently enjoyed the company of a couple of Colorado Authors! Justin Mattot was here on January 25th to do 2 large group assemblies for our K-5 students as well as writer’s workshops for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. We really enjoyed his lively presentations. We will also host David Kronk on February 7th when he will visit with Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd graders for grade level writing workshops. He is sure to please our youngest readers and writers. These visits are paid for through our book fair profits (THANKS RIVERDALE COMMUNITY!!!) and fit into our school improvement goal of supporting writing!
Thanks to our AMAZING Volunteers!
We couldn’t have a great library without our volunteers who stop in each week to shelve books and help us out with other tasks! Christin Herzing, Felicia Losli, and Debbie Vieth all have helped us out recently. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We appreciate your commitment to our students. If you are interested in helping us out, please contact Mrs. Lott at dana.r.lott@adams12.org or call the library at 720.972.5588.
Library Statistics!
This time of year allows us to reflect on half of the school year to see the impact we can make in the academic achievement at Riverdale! Here are some stats we are proud to report!
* Number of books checked out from August-December— 13,642!!!
* Average number of books circulated each day—198.8
* Number of classes co-taught—294
* Average number of classes and small groups served daily—6.4
* Total number of students served— 8,923!
As always, we thank you for your support of the Riverdale Library!Battle of the Books
Our 5th Grade Battle of the Books (BOB) group is in full swing! We are working on reading at least 5 of the 10 selected titles to be prepared for the district battle at the end of April. Recently we have met the Rocky Mountain Elementary BOB group via Skype during our meetings to practice! We’ve designed our own tee-shirts using Wordle! Look for us wearing them on meeting days! Ms. Dolan and Mrs. Lott are proud of the extra effort these dynamic 5th graders are showing!
Colorado Childrens’ Book Award
CCBA voting will take place near the end of February to determine the best picture book and the best junior novel as determined by the kids across Colorado! To be able to vote, the students need to have read or heard at least 3 of the 20 selected titles. These are all available in the Riverdale Library!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
January Library News!
To ring in the new year in the library, we have subscribed to an online book collection called "TumbleBooks!" Beginning January 1st, students can access the books through the library's website with Riverdale's username and password.
(Username is: riverdale, Password is: raccoon)
These books can be accessed and used at school as well as at home! Click Here to get to TumbleBooks! Enjoy!
This time of year reminds us to be super thankful of our WONDERFUL library volunteers! Without their help with shelving, bulletin boards, and other tasks we wouldn't be able to run as smoothly! We really appreciate your help!
Classes and Statistics
In the month of November, we met with 86 classes and small groups of kids! In addition, our media clerk circulated books with 21 classes and 31 small groups. All of these numbers average out to meeting the needs of more then 7 classes per day! We circulated 3,632 that month as well! We've recently worked with 3rd grade on their country research and PowerPoint projects, 4th and 5th graders on book reviews in our Destiny catalog, and 2nd graders in writer's workshop, creating wordles, and e-mailing letters to Santa! We've had a great time teaching and learning alongside our fabulous students!
Parent Accounts Available
If you are interested in checking out books from the Riverdale Library, we'd be happy to create an account for you! You may check out up to 10 additional titles at a time for your family to use at home. Please stop by and see us if you are interested!
BOB News
Our Battle of the Books after school club is in full swing! We are reading through our 10 books and writing questions to use for practice later in the year. We created a wordle to be displayed on our team tee-shirts, which are at the print shop as we speak! Look for BOB members wearing their shirts on meeting days!
New titles!
We have received the first shipments of new books for the year! We have about 400 new books and about 150 more on the way. Many of these titles are new non-fiction books focusing on cultures, traditions, and religions around the world. In addition, we have ordered some high interest fiction (Diary of a Wimpy Kid!), graphic novels, sports books, arts and craft books, and a handful of new "I Can Read" titles. Come in and check out the new books on display!
(Username is: riverdale, Password is: raccoon)
These books can be accessed and used at school as well as at home! Click Here to get to TumbleBooks! Enjoy!
This time of year reminds us to be super thankful of our WONDERFUL library volunteers! Without their help with shelving, bulletin boards, and other tasks we wouldn't be able to run as smoothly! We really appreciate your help!
Classes and Statistics
In the month of November, we met with 86 classes and small groups of kids! In addition, our media clerk circulated books with 21 classes and 31 small groups. All of these numbers average out to meeting the needs of more then 7 classes per day! We circulated 3,632 that month as well! We've recently worked with 3rd grade on their country research and PowerPoint projects, 4th and 5th graders on book reviews in our Destiny catalog, and 2nd graders in writer's workshop, creating wordles, and e-mailing letters to Santa! We've had a great time teaching and learning alongside our fabulous students!
Parent Accounts Available
If you are interested in checking out books from the Riverdale Library, we'd be happy to create an account for you! You may check out up to 10 additional titles at a time for your family to use at home. Please stop by and see us if you are interested!
BOB News
Our Battle of the Books after school club is in full swing! We are reading through our 10 books and writing questions to use for practice later in the year. We created a wordle to be displayed on our team tee-shirts, which are at the print shop as we speak! Look for BOB members wearing their shirts on meeting days!
New titles!
We have received the first shipments of new books for the year! We have about 400 new books and about 150 more on the way. Many of these titles are new non-fiction books focusing on cultures, traditions, and religions around the world. In addition, we have ordered some high interest fiction (Diary of a Wimpy Kid!), graphic novels, sports books, arts and craft books, and a handful of new "I Can Read" titles. Come in and check out the new books on display!
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