Library Spring Break Reading Program

Dear Parents,

Library Spring Break Reading program will begin  March 19th and run through the 29th.  Your students will be bringing home a bright yellow sheet to fill out the titles of the books they have read along with the minutes. Please help them total their minutes for their vacation reading and sign their sheet.  All students that fill this out with the appropriate information and turn it in the first week back (March 30-April 3) will be eligible for prizes!  Have a great vacation and READ, READ, READ!!!

Christmas Break Reading - 2014

Today Mrs. Robinett and Mrs. Morrow would like to announce our winners for the library "Christmas Break Reading!"

Total hours read by our school and form turned in was our highest yet with 768.09 hours!! 

The class with the MOST PARTICIPANTS was....B5 with 17 students!!

The class that read the MOST HOURS was B4 with 140.86 hours!!!  

Good job to both of those classes and great reading to the whole school!

We  would now like to announce our individual grade level winners.  Your names and pictures will be in Thursday thoughts as well.

Kindergarten......from A4   reading 8.86 hours  Alisi

1st Grade.....from B5  reading 12.5 hours Josie

2nd Grade....from A3 reading 21.66 hours Vince

3rd Grade....from B4 reading 40.83 hours Sarah

4th Grade....from C6 reading 30 hours Tyler B

5th Grade...from C5 reading 44.66 hours Sydney

and our Grand Prize winner from C6 reading 51.7 hours  Katrina

Individual prizes for all other students that participated will be given out during your library classes.

Remember the more you read, the better you read, so read, read, read!  

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Library Christmas Break Reading!

Dear Parents,

Before Winter Break, we will be sending home a flyer with your student describing the opportunity to win prizes/BOOKS in the library for reading during this time. In order to win a prize, each student must fill out "My Reading Record."   The columns include title, author's last name, minutes read, level of book, page began, page ended and genre.  At the end of Winter Break, your student needs to do some math by taking their total minutes and turning them into their TOTAL HOURS READ.  This paper should be returned TO THE LIBRARY with a PARENT SIGNATURE. This will be different than their RAH/MAH folders. To be eligible, they must keep track of this information on THIS piece of paper and turn it in to the library during the FIRST week back from vacation(Jan.6-10TH). Please encourage your students to read over Winter Break!!

Happy Holidays!
Mrs. Morrow & Mrs. Robinett

Forest Ridge Library Schedule 2013-2014

The Forest Ridge Library is now open to ALL, including our parents.  The times for check-out are: Tuesdays & Fridays from 3:15PM to 3:30PM. Each week a parent will be able to check out 5 books.

This is a great way to get new books to read to your kids without having to buy them or drive too far.  The parent club has also purchased books for parents on topics such as parenting students with ADHD, TAG, Autism, how to help your new reader, etc. 

Students will check out their books at their regular library time.  The following schedule is when your students should return their book each week, in order to check out a new one on their library day:

Monday—C3, C6 

Tuesday—B1, C1, C5 

Wednesday—A3, B5

Thursday A4, B2, B6, C4 

Friday—A5, B4

See you in the library!  Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Robinett

Forest Ridge Library-End of Year Reminder

Forest Ridge Library-End of Year Reminder
We would like to take this opportunity to thank students and parents for returning books on time, helping keep books clean, dry, and free of damage in our library for all students to enjoy during this past school year!

We would also like to take this time to remind all students and parents that the library will be having their last check-out of library books for the school year during the week of May 28-31st.  All library books will need to be returned to the library on Monday, June 3, so that we are able to begin our inventory process.  Please take a moment to help your student find those lost books or bring in payment for those that cannot be found or have fines for damage. 

Summer Library

FOREST RIDGE SUMMER LIBRARY

ATTENTION PARENTS AND STUDENTS: we are very excited to announce that we will

once again be having summer library check-out at Forest Ridge Elementary!! Mrs. Robinett

will open the library on the following dates: Thursdays: June 20, June 27th, July 11th, July

18th, July 25th and August 1st from 10:00am-11:00am. All Forest Ridge students are welcome

to check out books, as long as they are accompanied by an adult or babysitter. Please

use the naturescape entrance. Thank you! Happy Reading!

SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Salem Public Library is offering a summer reading club entitled, "Dig Into Reading"

beginning June 4-August 23, 2013. Your student will be bringing home a gold sheet

with information on how to register on-line or in person at the Youth Services Desk. Prizes

will be given for those reading at least 10 hours, filling out their reading logs, and reporting

their hours to the Summer Reading Club desk. Look for this important flyer! You may also

go on-line and check out their website:

www.salemlibrary.org for more information! AllSalem-Keizer students are eligible.

Spring Break Library Reading

Mrs. Robinett and Mrs. Morrow would like to take a moment to congratulate all students that read over Spring Break and turned in to the library their Spring Break reading logs.  Monday morning, we announced the top readers.  First, we congratulated  the class with the most minutes read; Mrs. Kerr's 5th grade class,  C5 with 9, 413 minutes!   Great reading!  Next, we acknowledged the class that had the most students turn in their reading logs, Mrs. White's 1st grade class, B5 with 17 students.  Great participation!!  Next, we announced the top reader from each classroom:  A3: Katrina:1494, A4: Tyson:340, A5:Kara:247, A7:Matthew:310, B1:Sara:385, B2:Ariel:450, B4:Jose:415, B5: Sarah:1490, B6:Eliana:410, C1:Marisela:990, C3:Sydney:982,  C4:Rich:405, C6:Cecily:2190 and the reader from C5 with the most minutes read Elizabeth with 2800 minutes!  Overall we had 93 students choose to participate with reading a total of 44,183 minutes!!  Congratulations to you all for participating and becoming a better reader.  Remember, the more you read, the better you read so read, read, read!  Thank you once again to LSAC for helping to fund the reading incentive prizes presented to these students.  We could not do it without you!

Bazillion Books

Bazillion Books

Next week, during Read Across America Week, February 25th-

March 1st, we will be having a book give away sponsored by Bazillion

Books for Kids, during each classes library time. These are gently

used books that have been donated by the Salem-Keizer Education

Foundation. Bazillion Books for Kids is a community-wide effort

to end book poverty and foster a life-long love of reading in Salem

and Keizer by putting free books into the hands of every

child. Funded by a volunteer-run bookstore, private donors and

community partners, the program's goal is to give away more than

500,000 free books every year. We encourage you to take a few

minutes to talk to your students about their books and the importance

of reading each day as we encourage using the RAH sheets

each month.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The

more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut

Christmas Break Reading!

Congratulations to all of the children that participated in the Library's Christmas Break Reading Program!    The grand total minutes read by those students that turned in their Christmas Break reading logs were 34,523 MINUTES!!!   This week we will begin handing out prizes to all participants.  The following students were the big readers in their classrooms:  A3-Abbi-913, A4-Tyson-645, A5-Kara-662, A7-Evelynn-100, B1-Ty-1380, B2-Kaden-630, B4-Hayden-780, B5-Sarah-1615, B6-Elly-300, C1-Hannah-300, C3-Sydney-1590, C4-Carter-150, C5-Serena-920, C6-Cecily-2600.  Congratulations again to ALL those students that read over break.  Everyone will have another opportunity to participate during Spring Break.  Remember, the more you READ, the better you READ, so READ, READ, READ!  A BIG THANK YOU once again to our Parent Club for giving the library money each year to help purchase prizes for these worthwhile events!!

Christmas Break Reading! 2012

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Christmas Break Reading 2012

Dear Parents,

Before Winter Break we will be sending home a flyer with your students describing the opportunity to win prizes in the library for reading during this time. In order to win prizes, each student must fill out a piece of paper following the directions on the flyer. The paper should include dates read, title of books, minutes read and TOTAL minutes read. This paper should be returned TO THE LIBRARY with a parent signature. This will be different than their RAH folders. To be eligible, they must keep track of this information on a separate piece of paper and turn it in to the library during the FIRST week back from vacation(Jan.9-11th). Please encourage your students to read over Winter Break!!

Happy Holidays!
Mrs. Morrow & Mrs. Robinett

Library

LIBRARY
The library is now open to ALL, including our PARENTS!!  Parent check-out days/times will be as follows:
Monday 9:20-9:30am, Tuesday  3:00-3:30pm, Wednesday 9:20-9:30am, Friday 3:00-4:00pm
Hopefully you will find a time that will work for you to come in and check out books to read with your children.  Each week a parent will be able to check out 5 books.
Students will check out their books at their regular library time.  The following schedule is when your student should return their book each week, in order to check out a new one on their library day:
MONDAY- C3, C6, TUESDAY-B1, C1, C5, WEDNESDAY-A3, B5, C4, THURSDAY- A4, B2, B6,
FRIDAY-A5, B4
See you in the library!  Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Robinett

Students Return Library Books/Summer Library

Students Return Library Books:  A short reminder to all students/parents that the last day for students to have their library books turned in will be Friday, June 1st.  The first three classes that have ALL books returned and ALL fines paid will be having a celebration in the library.  When all books are returned, we will be starting inventory and need all books back on the shelves in order to do that.  Thank you for helping us remind your student. 

Forest Ridge Summer Library Hours:  Mrs. Robinett will be running a summer library book check-out for Forest Ridge students beginning on Wednesday, June 20th and continuing June 27th, July 11, July 18th, July 25th and August 1st between the hours of 10am-11am.  Students will need to be accompanied by a parent or babysitter in order to attend.  Each student will be able to check out two books and each parent will be able to check out five books for one week.  We hope that our Forest Ridge parents will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to keep a variety of books in your children's hands all summer. 

Parent Lending Library/Spring Vacation Reading Minutes

Dear Parents,

Just a quick reminder to let you know that most all of the books purchased for the Parent Lending Library are now ready for check out! These books are located in the library on the end of the first row in the wooden bookshelf. These books range from "Best Kind of Different" (Our Family's Journey with Asperger's Syndrome), "Bringing Math Home," "Love & Logic: More Ideas About Parenting With Less Stress," "Siblings Without Rivalry," to " Your Child's Writing Life" to name a few... Stop by and check them out!

Spring Vacation Reading Minutes:
Remember to have your student fill out their reading minutes form for spring vacation and turn it in to the library with your signature and total minutes, by Friday, April 6th for a reward. Thanks to the generosity of the Parent Club, we were able to purchase reading rewards, such as book marks, "reading" pencils, "reading" water bottles, "reading" bracelets and books as a reward for minutes/hours read.

"The more you read, the better you read, so Read, Read, Read!!"

Book Fair

Once again the Scholastic Book Fair is on it's way to visit Forest Ridge!! The date of opening will be Monday, February 27th and will run until Friday, March 2nd in Room C2. Each morning it will be open from 8:45am-9:30am. Each afternoon it will be open from 3:15pm-4:00pm. Tuesday and Thursday evening it will also be open from 5:30pm-7:30pm.

The library is very fortunate to be able to add books from the Book Fair each year, due to book sales from all of you. Thanks so much for adding not only to your home library, but to our school library as well! Make sure to stop by and see what is new!

Battle of the Books

Once again Forest Ridge will be giving fourth and fifth graders the opportunity to participate in Battle of the Books. However, only students from Forest Ridge will be battling among one another this year. Teams will be made up of 4 students, from 4th through 5th grade. Each team will select a captain. Team members will need to memorize titles, authors, and genre of the books they read exactly as published on the permission form. Questions asked will also include content. Battles will take place during lunch or recess time. Parents are welcome to attend battles. The winning team members' names will be engraved on a plaque in the library. Students that were interested received permission slips yesterday. Please make sure to return these by Wednesday, February 1!

Christmas Break Reading

Dear Parents,

Before Winter Break we will be sending home a flyer with your students describing the opportunity to win prizes in the library for reading during this time. In order to win prizes, each student must fill out a piece of paper following the directions on the flyer. The paper should include dates read, title of books, minutes read and TOTAL minutes read. This paper should be returned TO THE LIBRARY with a parent signature. This will be different than their RAH folders. To be eligible, they must keep track of this information on a separate piece of paper and turn it in to the library during the FIRST week back from vacation(Jan.3-6th). Please encourage your students to read over Winter Break!!

Happy Holidays!
Mrs. Morrow & Mrs. Robinett

Parent Check-out Days/Times

PARENTS!! We are excited to announce the days and times for you to come into the library and check-out 5 books per week!! These days include: Tuesdays from 11:00am-12:00 and Thursdays from 11:00am-12:00 and 3:00pm-3:30pm. We are also creating a Parent Lending Library, which includes self-help books for parents. Please ask Mrs. Robinett or myself for it's location! We look forward to seeing you!