Let's Celebrate!

  This week we are talking about celebrations from around the world, 
some tied to Christmas and some a totally separate holiday all together.

I also reminded student of two great resources, World book online and Utah's Online Library, where they can find great information and maybe learn some new things they may not have known before. You can find these resources to the right listed under online links. 

Adventure Pass

November is over so you can now record your reading minutes on pbsutah.org/reading. If you've read more than 600 minutes in November you will receive a printable adventure pass like this. 

 

Why I Read

Reading Marathon

Throughout November we are participating in a reading marathon sponsored by PBS and reading every day for 20 minutes (or a total of 600 minute for the month.) Mrs. Morley has created a google form for you to track your reading on and here is a link to the PBS website if you'd like more information. For reading every day, or a total of 600 minutes, at the end of November you can log your reading on the PBS website and earn an adventure pass that will give you admission and/or coupons to do fun things around town. Happy Reading!

Every Week Mrs, Morley will have a different challenge for students to do. The first week in November Mrs. Morley is challenging students to read a book together as a family. For doing this students will a book button shown above.

Author Lori Degman reads JUST READ - with ASL interpretation.

BATS!

 I made this video to post in my google classroom for online learners 

but thought I would share it here too, just for fun.  🦇🎃❤

Book Fair

Our online book fair is now open through October 17th. 

Visit the book fair homepage to find the guessing games, get info, and shop.

 

Book Fair

 Keep an eye out for information on our online book fair that will be running from Oct. 4-17. Though it will be all online, I have ideas to still make it a fun event for students. I will be sharing some of my ideas with students during our library time this week. Book fair homepage

Happy International Dot Day!

 I love the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds and wanted to let you know about a fun celebration happening right now in honor of this book, International Dot Day! You can watch the video below to find out more. I've also found a collection of great resource for other books and videos that feature his books and art on EPIC. Go to getepic.com and sign in as a guest under my account (class code - pte8107) to explore the creative world of Peter H. Reynolds.

Let's Begin!

I'm always finding new books that I love, and this week I am sharing one of them! I hope you are enjoying coming back to school, I know I have been looking forward to the day we would begin again for quite awhile. See you this week when I come to your classes for library time.

 

 Are you an at home learner?

Use this QR code to access the library google classroom 

where we can stay connected during distance learning.

 

PAWS to READ!

 My granddaughter loves reading!

I hope you are ready to come back to school and 

PAWS (pause-act-wonder-succeed) for reading too. 

Online summer book fair!

Online Book Fair

What is your favorite part of camping?

Don't forget!

Just a reminder that tomorrow is summer library. You can put books on hold through our online researcher before 8 AM tomorrow then come pick books up curbside between 11 AM-Noon. If you need info/help there are links and instructions in a summer library post below or you can email Mrs. Morley at peggymorley@alpinedistrict.org. Even if you don't borrow books from Liberty Hills, I hope you are finding time to read. Keep a reading log of the books you read this summer then bring it to our last summer library day on August 11th to pick up a treat curbside for your SWEET summer reading efforts...because reading IS SWEET!

Help choose what flavor of 
cotton candy we give by voting HERE.

Splash Into Reading
with Summer Library  

Tuesdays from 10 AM to Noon 

  Starting June 9th - Ending August 11th

Curbside book drop off and pickup will be available each Tuesday from 11:00-11:30.

Click here to see a tutorial on how to place holds through our researchers. 

All holds must be placed the night before summer library day, 

Mrs. Morley will gather books and have them ready to pick up at 11. 

Prior library  books will need to be returned before new books can be taken.

Join Mrs. Morley on google meet (by clicking below) for the following activities...

10:00 Join Mrs. Morley for a read-aloud and book chat

10:30  Q&A - help with SORA, World book, and other resources

Pick up books after our google meet session from 11AM-11:30

11:00 Drive Thru book pick up & drop off

Check back here to see information and  updates and feel free to
email Mrs. Morley at peggymorley@alpinedistrict.org with any questions.

Virtual Summer Library! 🌞📚

We will be having our virtual summer library on Tuesdays from 10 AM - Noon, starting on June 9th and ending on August 11th. During these times Mrs. Morley will be available for phone calls at school and also available on her google hangout that we've been using for lunch bunch book chats. Keep an eye on the library blog and watch for an email that will give you more details about activities that we will be doing to keep us connected virtually! 

Hooray for Summer Library!

Flat Mrs. Morley

You can also find a copy of flat Mrs. Morley 

HERE that you can print off on your own.

Mo Willems Gives Jimmy a "Squillem" Doodle Lesson

Library books are due!

Library books are due this week.

I will be at the packet pick up/drop off tomorrow, Wednesday, collecting library books.

Look for me in the Pete the Cat mask.

Find some sunshine!

This is a friend’s daughter that works at another library. If you’re ever feeling blue, I hope you can find some sunshine.

Battle of the Books

I have updated the BOB (Battle of the Books) lists with next years books. Click on the BOB tab above to see the list of books on the 2020-2021 list.

May the 4th!

Magic Treehouse Adventures

 Click on the picture below to watch a video of Mary Pope Osborne tell more about 

Magic Treehouse Adventures.

Book title emoji ❓📚💓

Can you tell what book title these emoji's are describing?

❓💓📚

 

I have posted a few extra emoji book titles on our library instagram account, libertyhillslibrary, and will be sharing a new collection of titles there on each Friday through the end of the school year.

Happy Birthday, Happy Earth Day!

Today is my granddaughter's first birthday and tomorrow is Earth Day! Since it is National Poetry Month I want to share one of my all time favorite poem books with you. This is a book that makes me reflect on both my granddaughter and the earth, a book that remind me of the importance of our connections with others and our world. It has very few words, like many poems, but every time I read this book it's illustrations and text touch my heart. I hope you enjoy this video of "All the World" written by Liz Garton Scanlon and illustrated by Marla Frazee as much as I do. Pay attention to the illustrations as you listen to the words being sung, they share a deeper level of the story that the words don't tell. I miss all of you but know that even though we can't be together at school we are still connected like this poem say, all the world is all of us.

Click on the book cover picture to go to the video. ⬆

Earth Day

Did you Know that Wednesday is Earth Day? 

Discovery Education has a great site with 50 resources and activities to help you celebrate earth day. I might try idea #6 out myself. 

As I worked last summer to get the Liberty Hills library ready (with a little help from my granddaughter) I was so excited to meet, work with, and get to know all of you. I’ve felt from the beginning that LH is where I belong and I am so sad that our time together this school year is being cut short. I know this may be a difficult time for you, but I also know that we can make it through this because we are husky strong. I miss you and I want to stay connected. Send me a message or join me at a literary lunch bunch. I would love see and hear from you! Look for me waving at our parade next week.🖐🏻❤🖐🏻❤🖐🏻

Specialty Bingo

I collaborated with the specialty teachers and we created a specialty bingo card where you can do different activities from each of the specialty classes and try to get BINGO. There are links for some of the activities that will take you right to them online, the BINGO card can be found on both the Computer and Engineering websites and you should also get an email with information about it. There will be a surprise for students that are able to get a BINGO, please reach out to me or one of the other specialty teachers if you have any questions.
Thanks, Mrs. Morley

SORA

Yesterday I dropped off a surprise for the top 10 students using SORA in March! Have you been using SORA? I have, Look at the badges I’ve earned! Do you think I can earn my All-Nighter to get all 5 of 5 reading time badges? I’m not usually still awake at 11PM  but maybe I’ll stay up this weekend just to read on SORA for 15 minutes. 😉 How many badges do you have?

I DID IT...I stayed up late on the weekend and got my All-Nighter!

Reading is Magical!

You may have noticed the Harry Potter display in the library. I love Harry Potter because it is the series that helped my son become a reader when he was in 4th grade. FYI, I have to admit that I had just as much fun reading the HP books as he did. 😊 I found out today that Overdrive is giving us the opportunity to read the 1st book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, simultaneously for the whole month of April. That means this book will always be available, no holds and no waiting! You can check the book out on SORA. And...I also heard recently that there is a cool website called "Harry Potter at Home" with lots of fun activities and magical ideas for extreme HP enthusiast, check it out here. Happy Reading! 

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Good Night With Dolly!

My dad loved Dolly Parton's music so I grew up listening to her sing and loving her too.  Dolly Parton works hard to promote reading and share books with children through her Imagination Library and starting tomorrow she will be sharing books online with Good Night With Dolly storytime!

     

Storyline Online

You can watch videos of celebrities reading some of my very favorite books on Storyline Online! You can click the live link in this post to go to their website or there is also one in the online link list to the right for future use. Enjoy!

National Poetry Month

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? Since we can't be together at school right now I will be sharing different types of poems on a "Write it Wednesday" padlet linked at the top of the library blog on the right. I also love the Shel Silverstein website, it has so many fun poetry activities. You can find a link to this website under "online links" to the right or linked in the picture below.
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Read with someone you love ❤

Check out this link list on the top right side of the blog. It has a different link for each school day of the week! You can do the activities whenever you want, I will just be adding new information on these days of the week. ➤

• Must Read Monday
• Trivia Tuesday
• Write it Wednesday
• Try it Thursday
• Field Trip Friday

Keep reading and learning. 💓📕

Battle of the Books ??

Even though we can't do Battle of the Books as we had planned, here are links to a game you can play to test your knowledge of  the BOB books from this year.
5 - 6 Grade BOB
3 - 4 Grade BOB
Have Fun!

Cooped Up Comics Camp

Are you bored and tired of being cooped up? Nathan Hale, author and illustrator of Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, has put this video together for kids that are cooped up at home. 

Free audio books for students from Audible

Audible is offering free (limited titles) audio books for students.

You can see a list of these books and listen to them here

 https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.

KEEP READING!

Great news about SORA!

Sora has given us a huge collection of books that we are able to use simultaneously for the next 90 days! Please use this great resource to keep reading while we can't check out books from the school library.

A few SORA facts...

• Check out up to 3 books.
• Books are checked out for 2 weeks, then automatically checked in. 

Please keep reading!

Tutorial: how to use the library blog

Mrs. Morley Minute

Stay Tuned

In light of many things being cancelled and/or shut down I just wanted to give you this reminder.

Keep an eye on this blog over the next few weeks for ideas on how you can keep reading through digital resources like worldbook online and Sora. I will miss seeing you at school, but I will do my best to keep in touch with you here until we can get be together again. Keep reading!

Read Across America

This week we are remembering Dr. Seuss and talking about why we celebrate Read Across America on his birthday. We are also doing a few Seuss related activities and discovering how fun reading can truly be. One of the things I am sharing with students in the website Seussville with so many fun activities involving Dr. Seuss and the books he wrote. Click on the picture below to check it out.

Hair Love

We had this book, Hair Love, at the book fair last week and this weekend it won the Oscar for best animated short film! If you want to see the animated film here it is...

Story Time From Space

We are discussing space and the astronauts that explore our universe in the library. 

Want to watch astronauts read books while floating weightlessly in space? 

Check out Story Time From Space by clicking on the picture below.

Book Fair

Come to our spring book fair to spy some great new books that have come out. The book fair will be held on February 4-7, the week of parent teacher conferences, and will be open during lunch times and on both evenings of conferences. We are in need of volunteers to help at the book fair. If you are able to help please sign up by clicking on the "book fair help" link below.
Thank you!
Mrs. Morley

BOOK FAIR HELP

BOB

Battle of the Books (BOB) permission slips went home before winter break. If students are interested in participating in BOB please return those slips to the library ASAP so we can start organizing teams and be ready for battles that start in March.