Book Fair and Conferences

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Thanks to all our volunteers and our spectacular Book Fair Coordinator, Mary Park, for a wildly successful Book Fair.  We raised almost $2000.00 for the Daniel Bagley Library!  Thanks too, to all our families that supported this endeavor.  The Daniel Bagley Library is looking forward to partnering with the University Bookstore this Spring too – more to come!

The Library has prepared brief First Trimester reviews for families attending parent/teacher conferences.  If you missed out on your copy, you can read them electronically here:

One more chance – Bagley Book Fair

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Thanks to our book fair coordinator, Mary Park, and a team of volunteers we just finished three exciting days of book fair in the Daniel Bagley Library!

Didn’t get a chance to shop and earn money for the Daniel Bagley Library?  Don’t fret, you can still shop at the University Bookstore OR Online using the promo code BAG, now through Sunday November 11th.  

In addition, there are still a few teachers with item left on their wish lists – Thank you for your continued support of the Daniel Bagley Library and all our Busy Bee Readers!

Bagley Book Fair Coming Soon!

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Bagley PTA, the University Bookstore and the Bagley Library are excited to announce the return of the Book Fair.  Stop by the library November 6-8 and shop a fabulous selection of books and other literary delights!

Tuesday 2:00-6:00pm
Wednesday 3:00-7:00pm
Thursday 8-10 am, 2:00-6:00pm

Celebrating our Reading Lives!

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Each month we will engage in an activity that celebrates our lives as readers.  Thematically, October inspired us to think of our favorite literary characters as if they were pumpkins!  We have some very talented artists in the DBE Library.  Students were given a pumpkin template, crayons and total access to the library books for inspiration. 

Some drawings included: Kinani, Molly and Rebecca (American Girls), Voldemort, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Piggie, Pokemon, Thea Stilton, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a Dolphins and Fly Guy.

Go ahead, see if you can guess who these characters are.

A.    B.    C.    D.  

Click below for answers:

A.  B.  C.  D. 

 

What’s for Dinner?

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October 3 – October 8

K/1 and 1/2 classes are asking the question, “What’s for Dinner?” in the library this week.  Mr. Millsap (our health and fitness teacher) has laid and incredible foundation with all Bagley Bees regarding making healthy choices for themselves.  The dinner/dessert metaphor translates easily into the library as well. 

Books we choose for dinner are books that feed our brains, helps us grow as readers and provide balance in our reading diets.  Of course a well balanced reading diet also includes some dessert – in moderation of course! 

 Students worked collaboratively to decide what foods would be good dinner foods and what foods would be good dessert foods.  We actually set our table and placed our food on our plates!  Once healthy dinner choices were agreed upon, we moved on to dessert.  Students then picked dessert!  We then transitioned to pre-selected books and again worked collaboratively to place dinner books on our plates and dessert books on our dessert platter.

To close the lesson we drew pictures of our well balanced dinners in our Libary Passports and checked out books.  Daniel Bagley Bees are healthy readers!

Monthly Reading Celebration!

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September 26- October 1

K-5 we are celebrating reading this week!

  • 4/5s spent classtime looking for October books, selecting books to balance our reading lives and exploring reading online using our iPads and Flipboard. 
  • 2/3s flipped our regular schedule and we started our days with book selection.  Teachers assessed students’ reading levels and students then used this informatino to find Just Right Books in the Daniel Bagley Library.  We used the dinner and dessert metaphor, often used by Mr. Millsap in Health and Fitness, to identify how and why we make the choices we do as readers.
  • K/1s and 1/2 – We read Hooray for Reading Day by Margery Cuyler and Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds (a title that is new to the DBE Collection this year).  Students stamped their passports with Balloons and added a title/author sticker. 

In our own two hands

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September 19-24

There has been some discussion about why students can or cannot play video games in the library when the “lesson” is done.  With only 35 minutes in the library each week while the answer could remain a simple, “No,” the response is much more complicated than that.

As readers we hold our destiny in our own two hands.  When given the opportunity to choose what you get to read (an opportunity that slowly disappears in school as you get older), we have to embrace and hold this freedom close, in our own two hands, and empower each other with the freedom to choose.

Confident, happy, engaged readers are always thinking about what they might read next.  As the librarian we will partner together this year to ensure that all Bees are confident, happy, engaged readers.  In order to do this, please take a minute to hold your destiny tightly in your own two hands.

Stranded on a Desert Island

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September 12-17 (4/5s)

4/5s have been stranded on a desert island and can only bring one book to read over and over and over again.

Using a google form, reviewing expectations with regard to the use of technology at school and our brand new iPads (thank you Ms. Ayer), we asked the question, “If you were stranded on a desert island and could only bring one book to read over and over and over again,  What would you bring and why?”  Check back in a week for a list of books the 4/5s would bring!

K-3’s First Library Visit

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If you’d like to know what Bagley Readers are doing in the library each week, follow the tabbed links at the top of the page (K/1 & 1/2, 2/3 and 4/5) to find weekly updates.

This week students K-3 were introduced to their Library Passports and Library Field Journals – both of which will provide keen insight into their lives as readers and library users throughout the year.  4/5 students have been working on shaping a vision for the DBE Library!

One additional way you can follow curricular posts, books reviews and library events online is through Facebook.  If you are already on facebook, please feel free to LIKE our library page: http://www.facebook.com/DBELibrary.

It is always great to BEE a BEE!