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Golden Dragon Winners
Our Dragon Winners so far......2018-19
C -26 Ms. Sylvester
C14 Ms. Duran
C-28 Mr. Boucke
A-3 Ms. West
C -21 Ms. Swift
C -29 Ms Haughey
C -23 Ms Bartolomei
C -13 Ms. Royston
A-3 Ms West
C-25 Ms Legorreta
C-28 Mr.Boucke
C-21 Ms Swift
C-28 Mr Boucke
C-29 Ms Haughey
A-2 Ms Heyboer
C-13 Ms Royston
C-12 Ms Mowbry
C-22 Ms Flores
C-17 Ms Berkebill
C-27 Ms Krueer
What's happening this week?
Books we are reading this week:
All about Families
Kinder: Owl Babies
!st/2nd: Five Creatures
3rd: Weird Parents
4th: It could always be worse
5th: The Relatives came
Ms. B's Library Buzz
October 8th authors Jennifer and Mathew Holm will be coming to Radcliff to present an assembly for our entire school.
They are the authors/illustrators of BabyMouse and Squish books.
They will be talking about their first picture book - "The Evil Princess vs The Brave Knight." Remember if you want to get your own signed copy fill out the order form that was sent home or come to the library and see Ms. B
SUMMER WRITING CHALLENGE 4TH GRADERS
Over the summer you have a challenge should you choose to accept it????
After reading "Rufus the Writer" where Rufus writes stories to trade for special items from his friends, you have been challenged to fins an "object" and write a story about it. You can write up to 3 stories. For each story turned in to the Library during the first week of school you will get a prize!
HAPPY WRITING
AND THE WINNERS ARE.....
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THANK YOU BOOK SHOP SANTA CRUZ
Through the Holiday Book Drive Book Shop was able to donate all these books to our Library. Come check them out!
California Young Reader Medal
2018-19
And the Nominees for K-3 are.......
Nominees for 4-5 are......
We will all be reading these together
during Library visits!
If you would like a challenge then 4th & 5th graders can read the
chapter book nominees independently - they are........
Happy Reading!!
BOOK FAIR UPDATE
We had a great Book Fair this year!
Thanks to all the parents who bought books for our classrooms!
The Library bought over $500 worth of books for classrooms, over $150 of books for the Library and put over $1000 into our author visit account!!
Well done Radcliff.
Browse the Book Fair flyer - see videos of books you might like to buy!
Click on the flyer then on the arrows to open videos.
Remember to get a pass from yard duty to come in at lunch recess!
WHAT A GREAT VISIT!!
Yuyi Morales said she had a "Wonderful" time at Radcliff and loved meeting all our students.
A WONDERFUL AUTHOR COMING TO VISIT RADCLIFF!
Yuyi Morales will be here Thursday October 4th.
The assembly will be in the cafeteria from 1:30 - 2:15
Watch Yuyi talk about her book and what some of the images in the book mean.
WE VOTE THIS WEEK!
HOW DID YOU VOTE?
K-3 CHOICES
4 &5 CHOICES
Find out the Radcliff Winners after Spring Break!
They made it out!!
After solving puzzles, hunting for books and unlocking locks ALL the 4th and 5th graders made it out of the Library!
WELL DONE
4th and 5th graders Locked in the Library!!!
All 4th and 5th grades have been reading Escape from Mr.Lemoncello's Library.
Now they will have to use what they have read to help them escape from the Radcliff Library!!
Next week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday our 4th and 5th graders will be locked in the Library.
They are using the Breakout Expeditions. They will have to solve puzzles and clues to find their way out of the Library.
THANK YOU BOOK SHOP SANTA CRUZ
Once again Book Shop Santa Cruz has done something wonderful for our school!
All of these beautiful books were donated by BSSC customers to our school Library.
We are hoping to collect as many Thank you cards as possible to send to them.
Dav Pilkey Presentation
We had a FANTASTIC time:
A LIBRARY FIELD TRIP for 3-5th grades??
YEP...... 3-5th graders will be given ALL the information this week during your Library visit.
I know you will all be VERY excited!!
See you this week back in the Library.
Ms.B
Mac Barnett and Brian Biggs were so much fun!!
What a great afternoon spent with our visitors.
Thank you to JP and Vivianna for welcoming them onto campus.
What was your favorite part of the assembly?
Thank you to Ms. Bartolomei for all the beautiful posters!
Birthday Books From Coco
Our first birthday book giveaway was Monday....we had 104 students with birthdays in July and August!!
It was a very exciting morning, even the newspaper came to take photographs.
Our next giveaway will be Oct 24th for Oct/Nov birthdays
Who remembers Bruce Hale???
Bruce Hale is the author of the Clark the Shark books and the Underwhere chapter books that all of you love so much! Bruce came to visit Radcliff school in 2014.
He was so impressed with our students that his newest Clark the Shark book is dedicated to the "cool students of Radcliff Elementary!"
How awesome is that!!!
Useful websites for research, book recommendations and MORE!!
