Bagley Book Fair Coming Soon!

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!

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.

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What’s for Dinner?

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!

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.