Oh, Dear! Time Does Fly!

 How did I manage to get through March and April without a blog post?

Well, I guess I could use the "I've been busy" excuse, but that's not really an excuse. (Even though it is true)

Just a brief summary of the library events that have been and are happening these days:

March:

The first week of March was a roller coaster of books, reading, storytelling, games, and costumes. We celebrated Fully Booked Week! With costumes everyday for the library team, guest storytellers for stories in English, Thai, and Chinese, Senior School students reading to Pre-Prep and Junior School students, contests in both libraries...at the end of the week we were happy and exhausted.

 Monday: Characters from the Rainbow Magic books!

 

Tuesday: Fantasy book characters! 

 

 

Wednesday: Talk like the Animals!

Thursday: Anime characters!

Friday: Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs! (Sort of...check out this video to see what that means!)

(Note to self: when choosing to wear costumes 5 days in a row, perhaps a day or two WITHOUT a headpiece should be considered.)

We had great entries into the First Line Quiz contest, and the Stories are Sweet guessing contest was extremely popular in both Junior and Senior libraries!

 

There was so much more that week, that I know you don't want to read the book length description. We'll just leave it at this: Reading is FUN and something worth CELEBRATING!

The rest of March went quickly, with a lot of research happening with EPQ students and the junior school library lessons. My National Board Maintenance of Certification (a.k.a. renewal) took place this month during the Y6 lessons on the REAL method of evaluating websites for research.

Unfortunately, we then went online again due to the third wave. This interrupted a lot of term break vacation plans, but when we returned (still online) the library team hit the ground running!

We've added twice a week craft corner activities to our Click and Collect and online story time programs. The new Sharing Stories with Shrewsbury playlist has book recommendations from all of our collections. These videos have a lot of creativity to them since every member brings their own spin on book recommendations!