Family Reading Night, November 17!

 Please join us for 

FAMILY READING NIGHT 

on Thursday, November 17 at 6 pm as we celebrate the

*** MAGIC OF READING! ***

Special Guest: Walter King Jr., THE SPELLBINDER!

Plus, reader's theater play starring all your favorite primary teachers!

Read-aloud with Ms. Nestler and Ms. Wynne!

Book Fair in the Library!

Wand-erful crafts!  And so much more!

Do not miss this delightful evening in which we come together as a community of readers!

And don't forget, we have the Scholastic Book Fair happening the whole week of November 14th. Thank you for sending your child with funds when possible.  Your support goes to programming at our school! 

Haunted House Museum is a Ghostly GO!

 

Yes, yes, yes, we WILL be having a Haunted House Museum in the library again this year!  But we need your participation to make it happen!

How-to:  Take a cardboard box and cut holes in it for windows. Paint or otherwise cover the box with a seasonal color like orange, black, green or purple. Decorate the outside of your house with ghosts, trick-or-treaters, rotting trees…you don’t have to make it a house. It can be a haunted apartment building, or a haunted castle, or a haunted theater, or a haunted sports event, or a haunted library, or a haunted beauty salon, or a haunted store, or…whatever idea you have! Use your imagination! 

If you don’t celebrate Halloween, that’s fine! You can still participate.  We welcome fall houses and autumn scenes as well.

Rules:

• No blood or gore, dismembered parts or headless dolls, sorry! We are celebrating imagination and folklore, not horror.
• Please do not attach any real food to your creation. Cockroaches are even scarier than ghosts.
• Please do not include or attach anything valuable to your creation. 
• Yes, you can work with a friend or friends or family...just please stay COVID-safe!
• You can light it inside with a flashlight or battery-operated lights! 
• Please ask for a grown-up’s help for cutting out windows or when using new or messy craft materials. 
• This is not an assignment for a grade. This is for FUN and open to all grade levels! 
• Remember to put the name and room number of all creators clearly on your creation.

Houses will be accepted in the library before or right after morning announcements starting on Monday, October 24, though Friday, October 28 and students should pick up houses at the end of the day on  Halloween Monday for a treat. Sorry, the library cannot be responsible for houses left in November.  

Can't wait to see the children's monsterpieces masterpieces!

Welcome to our 2022-23 School Year!

Welcome to a bright, shiny new school year at Stone Academy!  I am Ms. Esmé, your lucky school teacher-librarian. I'm lucky because I get to teach the best kids in Chicago! 

I'm also lucky because over the summer the library has enjoyed a glow-up, a last hurrah from former principal Jay Brandon who budgeted for a new floor, new tables, a new desk, new cabinets and a couple of new multimedia screens!  Within the first couple of weeks of school, Donors Choose grants for the library have also been fulfilled, resulting in a new train table, a lego wall and educational toys for our primary Bookworms to promote cooperation and imagination. Don't worry, our old friends Dusty the Dragon and Grabby Bunny are still here, too! We ended last year with a great author visit by Newbery winner Tae Keller with help from our community partner The Book Stall.  The library is the happy heart of our school!  Thanks to everyone who lends their support, including our new administration, Dr. Nestler and Ms. Wynne.

I am also lucky because at the start of summer I completed my second master's degree in Learning and Technology with a focus on Instructional Design from Western Governor's University.  Woo-hoo, if I do say so myself!  Stone students deserve the best and I am glad to be prepared to deliver it.  Looking forward to a year of great read-alouds, research skills, project-based learning, discussions and discoveries.  Stone supports the freedom to read and lifelong learning.  

Parents, please check out the "school stuff" tab above to learn more about our library program. For the past couple years of pandemic pandemonium, library news has been in the Google classrooms.  Glad to be returning here to our Stone Bookworms website...please check here for the latest news and celebrations!  Please also stop by the library table on Curriculum Night, September 15, to meet our local branch librarian and learn how to get a Chicago Public Library Card.  Hope to see you soon!