Add A Replacement Book to Our Library!

This year we are doing a twist on our annual
Add a Book to the Library program.
Instead of presenting 300 NEW books that we would like to add to our library...we have 300+ new REPLACEMENT copies of our favorite library books!

REPLACE A Book 2017!

During Fine Arts Week, Monday March 20-Thursday March 23, students can select one of these books to donate to the Library. Classes have a 'shopping' during school or families can look during our Fine Arts Nights on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Students must have a permission slip to select a book; then a notice is with the price of the book is sent home with the student; when the book is paid for, we process the new library book including the student's name on a bookplate as the donor; and then the student gets to be the first person to checkout our NEW old book! Book prices range from $18 to $25 with most around $22.
This voluntary activity is a great way to support our school and all of our readers. And our twist this year will insure that there are copies of our favorites for our new readers for years to come.

Please contact me if you have any questions...

Click here if you need a permission form...

Author (Illustrator) Day 2017

On Thursday, March 9, we will spend the Day in the Life of

Author/Illustrator

Eileen Christelow!!!

Order forms for

her autographed books

go home Friday, January 27,

or you can click

HERE.

Please return the form and payment by Friday, February 3.

YouTube!!!!

There are so many good books in this world...nobody has time to waste reading a bad book! But how do you find a good one? In our ongoing effort to match readers and books, we are now using YouTube! Look at our YouTube channel, Edgewood Books, to find short video book reviews. They are kind of like "unboxing" videos except we "unshelve" books to see what is inside them. The list of videos is growing as well as the format...I'm hoping to get students involved! Check them out!

Edgewood Books on YouTube

October is Digital Citizenship Awareness Month

During October, Homewood City Schools highlight 

Digital Citizenship. 

Going home in the student's folder is a booklet titled Net Cetera. 

This is a resource for parents to facilitate family discussion about manners and safety online. Included with the booklet is a flyer with some suggested activities. 

When your child completes at least one of the activities, 

they should bring the signed portion to the Library. 

From October 3-20, classes will be discussing smart online practices 

and we hope you will also share with your child ways they can 

be the best Digital Citizen that they can be.

For more information, please check these sites:

Homewood City Schools District website Parents and Students Technology 
       (Here you will find our BYOD policy as well as other guidelines.)
Net Cetera (This is the booklet sent home with each student.)
Common Sense Media (This site offers parents MUCH information!)

Why Did My Kid Checkout THIS Book?

We have around 10,000 books in our school library. When students visit, I let them choose which books to checkout. I believe that the library is one place students can make their own choice...and I believe that we learn from a book even if we can't read all the words in it.

With this in mind, parents sometimes are surprised by the books their kids borrow--especially books their kindergarten kids choose. But something about this book called to the student, and that's the magic to discover. Many a great conversation about books has started with "Why did you choose this book?" Maybe a friend or teacher suggested it; maybe it has a cool picture on the cover; maybe it was the fattest book they could find, and fat books are cool. "But what if my kid doesn't like the book when they get it home?" No problem! They can return the book the next day and make another choice. To paraphrase Thomas Edison, 'there are no bad books, just books I don't like.' Knowing this truth helps us find good fit books that we will like to read.

So if your kid brings home a book that seems unusual, ask what they like about it; find out what called to them.

Off and Checking Out....

We've been through the first ten days of school and already checked out over 4,600 books!!

So many new and exciting things in the Library!

Bookcases have been moved...

Shelves rearranged...

New books to read...

a new Library Assistant (Mrs. Morgan)...

and new postings on Instagram! 

(Follow us @edgewoodbooks)

Check us out!

Summer Reading with the HCS Digital Library

So Mrs. Woodruff, just how do we work those ebooks
from the Homewood Digital Library?

Miss Sloderbeck's students created instructional videos.
Watch this video and you will be an ebook expert!

In addition, Overdrive is providing an enhanced ebook collection (for free to us!!) that is only available during the month of June. So if you are into ebooks, check the HCS Digital Library during June and find some awesome limited-time-available titles. (At this time, I'm not sure how the site will look  or how you will know? I assume there will be a collection indicating the Juvenile Titles that fall into this special category.)