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What’s happening in Li-brary Classes? K: Author Study Mo Wil-lem. MT treasure state nomi-nees and learning about the Caledecott winners. 1st : Treasure state nominees and Caldecott winners. Char-acter and story development, author letters. Easy Reader section of the Library. 2nd: Learning how to use the Visual Search on the Des-tiny library catalog. Biog-raphy section and shelf or-ganization. Caldecott win-ners. 3rd: Using the WB on-line

Atlas, People and Places Encyclopedia, State Study...creating an An-imoto with State infor-mation. Non-fiction text ter-minology. 4th: Putting our finishing touches on our Animal Padlets and evaluating. Working with QR codes. Begin Native American re-search project. 5th: Finish up with Fa-mous Americans pro-ject...using 21st century learning tools...creating QR codes, Wordles and writing resumes.

Read Across America The K-4 students will celebrate Read Across America Day on Tuesday, March 8th. Groups will spent a fun-filled, literature enriched afternoon traveling around to different classrooms to hear stories and learn about differ-ent presidents. We will cele-brate Dr. Seuss’s 112th b-day with cake and Seuss juice at 3:00 in the elementary cafete-ria if you are interested in joining us! If you would like to help out with this fun filled after-noon, either cutting cake and pouring juice, please stop by the library or email me at khouse@bssd72.org. A big thanks to the FOL for sponsoring this fun day of reading!

Special points of Interest: March 2nd: Dr. Seuss’s B-day March 8th: Read Across Ameri-ca! Join us for Seuss juice and cake at 3:00 in the elementary cafeteria March 18th-21st Mini Spring break March 17th: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

March 27th: Happy Easter

Library Classes

March 2016

FOL Corner

The Friends of the library meet every 1st and

3rd Wednesday at 10:00 in

the library. Please join us...it’s a great way to get involved and meet people in the community. The next scheduled meeting is Wednesday, March 2nd Join Us!

March is…. ●Women’s History

Month

●Music in our Schools Month

●National Craft Month

●Irish American Month

●National Nutrition Month

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." Walter Cronkite

Website of the month: bigskylibrary.org

►Not sure if the library has a book that you want… go to our website and click on the library catalog and click the search button. ►Your child has a research paper due …..Go to our website and click Resource Aids and then on worldbook on line...username and password ophir bigsky OR use any of the other databases available. ►Your child want’s to play games on the comput-er...Go to Resource Aids, then Elementary and click on Tumblebooks, great e-books, educational games and videos ► You have a pre-schooler click on Pre-Kindergarten and sign up for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Pro-gram...a basecamp to Kindergarten component! ► Want to become more involved...Click on Friends of the Library and see how you can volunteer or be-come a Friend of the Library member

GREAT HOME ACTIVITIES TO CELEBRATE READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY OR ANY DAY:

For some fun activities go to http://www.nea.org/readacross Tips for reading Fiction books with kids:

*Take your time and talk about the story with your child. Ask your child

questions.

*Explore the pictures with your child.

*Read with expression. Change your voice or how fast you read to create

excitement. Ham it up!

*You don’t need to read every word. Keeping your child interested is the goal.

*K-3 parents: This is a great time to discuss which book your child will choose for his/her MT Treasure State nomi-nation. Ask they why they chose that book and ask them to tell you about the story line. Engage with your read-ers...ask them to tell you about the main character. The nominees are A library Book for Bear, The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie , Too much Glue, No year of the Cat, and The Last King of Ankor Wat.

Reading Non-Fiction with your child Students love to read non-fiction.! Take the time to sit down and look through non-fiction books and try out these strategies:

*Wonder out loud. As you are reading, or after-ward, talk about facts you find interesting or ques-tions you have. *Show your child how to use the table of contents,

section headings, index, glossary or word list to

find the answer to a specific question.

*Don’t be afraid to jump around, reading pages

that especially interest your child. You don’t have

to read a nonfiction book straight through.

New ReleasesA few new adult

reads available:

The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Blue by Danielle Steel My Life on the Road by Gloria Stei-nem

House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates

Scandalous Behavior by Stuart Woods

Resort Tax Time Next month is already time for resort tax submissions. Don’t forget to show your support for the library by voicing your opinion to the Resort Tax Board members: Gina Hermann, Jamey Kabisch, Mike Scholz, Heather Budd or Kevin Germain. Or write a letter and send it to : Big Sky Resort Tax District Box 160661 Big Sky, MT 59716 The Community Library hours enable your students to use the library after regular school hours. The extended hours on Monday– Wednesday allow for extra time to check-out books, magazines, data-bases etc. It also provides space for CAP mentors, tutoring time, homework time, and just relaxed time with friends. Resort Tax allocations fund the community library hours along with the Friends of the Library mem-berships. If you would like to join the FOL and help support our wonderful library, individual fees are $15.00 and family fees are $35.00. FOL membership forms are available at the library or on-line on our web-site www.bigskylibrary.org