Monday, April 29, 2013

The week of 4/22 Spotlight was on "Skippyjon Jones"

We read "Skippyjon Jones and The Cirque de Ole" by Judy Schachner.  We learned that Judy
Schachner had a siamese cat named Skippy which inspired her to write the books.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

In the spotlight week of 4/15 author Eric Carle

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and learned about Eric Carle's technique creating his own illustrations.

Monday, April 15, 2013

In the Spotlight the week of 4/8 "Jon Scieszka"


Jon Scieszka is a very funny author of many books including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales,  The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, The Time Warps Trio, and many more!


Tuesday, April 2, 2013

This week's Spotlight is on Poetry

April is National Poetry month!  We talked about the types of poems there are and where we would find poetry in the Library.  We watched "I'm a Manatee" by John Lithgow on Tumblebooks.
The children were able to check out our new books this week as well!