E.News for Schools

News from the Redmond Regional Library

This will be the last ENews of the school year.  Angela and I have both contacted all of you to arrange our annual Summer Reading visits.  We can begin visiting with you starting the last week in May.  Please contact us if you have not already done so, to arrange a visit.  The Redmond Regional Library is due to be closed for remodeling near the end of the summer.  The exact date hasn’t been announced yet, but it would affect the last few weeks of the Summer Reading program.  However, we will have a full slate of free programming this summer, in addition to incentive reading prizes.                       See you all soon!

Cat Whitaker and Angela Nolet, Children’s Librarians, Redmond Regional Library

System-wide Events

 “Catch the Reading Bug!” the 2008 Summer Reading theme is humorously illustrated by Harry Bliss who also did the illustrations for Doreen Cronin’s Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider.  -Children can register online, at home, school, or library and print off or pick up a summer reading log to track minutes read.  For 500 minutes of reading, children can collect a Pizza Hut coupon.  At 1000 minutes, children will receive binoculars and a chance to enter the drawing for a laptop.

·         Monday, June 16^th – Summer Reading Begins

·         Tuesday, July 15^{th -}  Prize Distribution Begins 

·         Sunday, August 31^st – Summer Reading Ends

·         Wednesday, September 10^th - Drawing for the Laptop Computers

·         Monday, September 15^th   -  Last Day to Claim Prizes

A preschool component has been added to this year’s summer reading program.  Parents of children age 5 and under may sign their child up online and pick up stickers and a reading activity sheet.  Preschool finishers will receive a free book.

Featured Online Database

Log on to www.kcls.org

Select “Databases” from the top of the page, then select “Homework Resources” from the database subject list.  Select “Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry.”  Basic searches are by author or title but advanced searches include first and last lines as well as nationality, cultural identity, eras, and even forms such as ballad, cinquain and haiku.  Searches can be limited to pull up only those titles that have full text.  Using the Poetry Sources tab enables you to limit your search to Children’s Poetry.

Featured Homework Help Site

Log on to www.kcls.org

Select “Websites” from the top of the page, then select “Homework Help” à”Literature & Writing” à” Vandergrift’s Children’s Literature Page.”  Just for fun scroll down on the left side and choose their Children’s Literature Literacy Test…they have intriguing first lines from both picture and chapter books.