Welcome, Grandparents!!

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The library media center invites all visiting grandparents to drop by our Open House on Grandparents Day on Dec. 12. We will have some pictures of library activities and lots of books available for donation "In Honor" or "In Memory" or as a "Birthday Book." Most of all, we want you to let your grandchild act as tour guide and show you our library and tell you about what they do in the library. We look forward to meeting you then!!

Sixth Grade is learning PowerPoint!

Sixth graders are preparing PowerPoint presentations of research done on the Alabama Virtual Library about India and Egypt. When they are finished, we'll try to post some samples so you can see the results of our work.

If you'd like to visit the Alabama Virtual Library to explore it yourself, just ask your 6th grade student or friend to give you a personal tour. You may get your own AVL password at the Auburn Public Library or the Opelika Public Library.

Students on Safari (Book Fair Safari, that is)

The library turned into "Safari Land" for the fall book fair. Students enjoyed selecting books for purchase. They also enjoyed meeting "Geronimo Stilton," who has his own series of books. Geronimo greeting students one morning as they arrived at school.

Teen Read Week Luncheon

Our winners enjoyed a "fine dining experience" with celebrity servers.

Fifth and Final Winner!!!

Congratulations to K. Clardy. She knew that Friday's chef was Mrs. Dean. Our five winners will be experiencing a fine dining experience on Monday at lunch with our secondary principal and our headmaster filling the servers' roles. The contest was fun. Thanks to all our entrants. Remember, Warriors Read!! (and not just during Teen Read Week).

Thursday winner is announced!

Congratulations, P. Thaxton, for guessing that Thursday's chef was Coach Maddox. You will join our other winners for lunch on Oct. 20. Today's (and the last day's) mystery chef is pictured to the left? Can you tell who it is? Come to the library with your guess. It's your last chance to be a winner in this year's Teen Read Week contest! And remember, you can check out Books with Bite!

Winner No. 3 Is Announced!

A. Goldhagan is our winner for Wednesday. Mrs. Oliver was our chef. Thursday's chef makes very, very good rolls and biscuits. Can you guess his/her identity? Enter your guess in the library on Thursday before the end of school.

Tuesday has a winner!

Congratulations to A. Diers! She knew that yesterday's "chef" was Mrs. Watson. Now, who will be able to guess the identity of today's mystery "chef" and earn a place at our prize luncheon table? Hint: this teacher teaches in both elementary and secondary schools.

We have a Winner and a new "chef" for tomorrow!

Congratulations to H. Kim, who correctly guessed that Monday's chef is Mrs. Morgan. On the right you will find Tuesday's "Mystery Chef." If you need a closer view, there are pictures posted around campus. Come by the library before 3:00 Tuesday to enter your guess about who this is. You may be a lucky winner of a formal lunch on Monday with the other four winners!!! Happy Teen Read Week!!!

Teen Read Week "Books with Bite" Contest

Teen Read Week is Oct. 13 - 17!!

Pictured is our contest's mystery chef for Monday. Students in grades 7 - 12 are invited to come by the library to enter your guess about the identity of the "chef." The five daily winners will dine at a Formal Lunch on Monday, Oct. 20 with surprise maitre d's.

Check our blog daily for the winners' names and each day's mystery chef (All mystery persons are LSA faculty members).

When you visit the library to submit your entry, be sure to look at the display of "Books with Bite."

Still more photos!

The students all enjoyed the day.

More Poetry Alive Photos

We really had a lot of fun with the poems!

LSA hosts Poetry Alive

The LSA library was a "happenin' place" on Tuesday, Sept. 9, when the Poetry Alive team came to visit. Students from First Grade through Sixth Grade enjoyed the show. Some even got to participate!

Friday, at last!

Following directions - that's what we want to do when we come to the library. First grade students practiced that today with games and a fun work sheet. Sixth, third, and fourth graders learned about Fact Hound and how to use that great resource to find good websites. We all plan to enjoy a wonderful, long weekend.

Book Review - - Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

The main character in this story by Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet and Mr. Tucket, learns not lessons in survival like the characters in his other books, but lessons in economics. Read how a simple summer job mowing lawns take its own adventurous turns and provides some cash to boot!

Fact Hound can fetch good websites for us

Today the 3rd and 4th grade students learned about Fact Hound. Fact Hound is in some of our nonfiction books, and he points the way to appropriate and good web sites that can extend what we learn from the books. Be sure to look at www.facthound.com, click the applicable grade level, and enter the code found with the Fact Hound symbol in the book. Then click the Fetch It button. You will see age-appropriate web sites that you can investigate. Another way to use facthound.com is to browse subjects by clicking on letters or on pictures and words. (You don't need a code to do this.)

Check back with us later to see what else our students are learning in Library!

We are back!!

School is well underway, and the library media center is "abuzzing." Our elementary classes are back on their regular library schedule, and we have had orientation for junior high classes. The fourth-sixth graders are busy reading the Alabama Emphasis on Reading books for 2008-2009. Ms. Davis's class visited today to see Space Shuttle programs and learn about the Space Shuttle Missions.

Our first big library event coming up is Teen Read Week, with the theme Books with Bite@ Your Library. High school students - be on the watch for a unique contest with a really neat prize. Details will be coming early in October.

Our Fall Book Fair Safari is scheduled for October 20 - 24. Family Night is Tuesday, Oct. 21 from 4:30 until 6:00.

We have lots of new nonfiction books ready for checkout, and we will soon be getting new fiction books as well. Remember our Birthday Book Club and Honor/Memorial Book program too.

April in the Library

April is National Poetry Month and National School Library Media Month.
April 13 - 19 is National Library Week. Be sure to Join the circle of knowledge @ your library.
April 14 - 20 is Young People's Poetry Week. At LSA we will celebrate by keeping a poem in our pocket. Students and faculty members who have a poem to read when approached by a "mystery poem seeker" will win prizes!

Our Spring Book Fair begins on April 30. Make plans to come and purchase some books for summer reading.

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival

Mrs. Story and Mrs. Williams met many authors at the Book Festival in Hattiesburg, MS., including Coleen Salley, Vicki Cobb, and Gerald Hausman.

Reading Contest entrant really reads!

Our school winner, and our entrant in the State AISA Reading Contest, read more than 12, 000 pages since the beginning of school! Wow!! Congratulations, Natasha Richardson, sixth grader in Mrs. Parker's class. We are proud of you and are rooting for you to be the state winner as well.

Get your poems ready!

April and National Poetry Month are almost here. Remember that during Young People's Poetry Week, April 14 - 20, we will be celebrating Poem in Your Pocket week with prizes for those people who have poems to read to our mystery poem seekers.

Ben Franklin brings the "Magic of Reading" to LSA

Students enjoyed Ben Franklin's visit to Lee-Scott. He even used our encyclopedias to help us learn about himself. Some of the students took part in electrical "experiments," others answered questions, and all of us learned new information and were encouraged to read for education, to explore, and to help us become experts. Thank you, Ben!

April will be busy!

April is a very busy month for our library. The entire month is National School Library Media Month and National Poetry Month with National Library Week April 13 - 19 and Young People's Poetry Week April 14 - 20. We hope everyone will Join the circle of knowledge @ your library during Library Week and every day!

During Poetry Week Thursday, April 17, is national Poem in Your Pocket Day. We are going to extend that day throughout the entire week. If students, teachers, or faculty members have a poem in their pocket and will take it out and read it when asked by a mystery poem seeker, those people will win prizes. So plan now for poems to put in your pockets all week long. We will be reading and listening to poetry during the week, particularly during our W.O.R.D. time on Monday, April 14, and we will probably have some other surprise activities.

For our fifth graders their almanac study will culminate in our World Almania competition and the crowning of a championship team. This is always an exciting library event.

On the last day of April our Spring Book Fair begins. Plan to visit us during any of our special events and especially during the book fair to stock up on books for summer reading.

Have a great spring break!

Sixth grade students are learning how to evaluate web sites to determine if they are useful for them. Fifth graders are learning about the almanac. Fourth graders have begun learning about the Alabama Virtual Library and how to use it. Author and illustratorTomie dePaola is the author third graders are studying. Kindergarten - second grade students have finished reading for Alabama Emphasis on Reading. Students K - 8 have sent in our votes for favorite books in the Alabama Emphasis on Reading program. We can't wait to see how other students in the state voted. Preschoolers enjoy hearing stories and sharing words beginning with their letter of the week. High schoolers visit the library to work on research and select books. We have been working so hard that we are looking forward to our week of spring break. We hope you all have a happy and safe break.

Still more Read across America photos

There was some serious reading going on.

More photos from Read Across America

What fun it was to have our visitors read with us!

Read across America Day, March 3, 2008

We had perfect weather for our outside celebration of both Read across America Day and our W.O.R.D. (Warriors Own Reading Day). From 9:30 until 10:00 the entire elementary school and teachers (grades preschool - sixth) read on the playground after forming a big "L S A" to show everyone that LSA supports and encourages reading. Dr. Roberts joined us, and we also had visits from the Cat in the Hat and Thing One and Thing Two.

READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY is coming!

Monday, March 3, is Read Across America Day. We will celebrate during our regular W.O.R.D. time - with a special twist to the reading time. Who knows, the Cat in the Hat may also pay us a visit.

Thanks so much!

Thanks to all who participated in our Magazine Sales. Mrs. Clardy's class won the Pig Race and will have a "Pig Out Party" very soon. The dancing animal contest was lots of fun for our top sellers. Remember that you can subscribe to magazines through QSP all year long online and help our library at the same time. Call or come by the library or see the Library Web Page for details.

We need book reviews!

We haven't had any book reviews in a long time. If you would like to post a book review, see Mrs. Story about how to join our LSA Library Blog.