You can do this!  My code will light up Washington's Christmas tree on 12/6 at 3:42 pm.  When will your code light the tree?

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The Hour of Code - WORLDWIDE - It is coming this December!

Hi Jefferson Students and Families!

October is an exciting month here in the library-

This week we are celebrating Socktober - http://soulpancake.com/socktober/ - by collecting new, unused socks for the homeless shelters in our area.  If you would like to get involved, please send a pair of new, unused socks to school with your child this week (October 6-10).  Check out what Kid President has to say about Socktober and how to make the world more awesome! #socktober

Donate your socks HERE - 

Collection Boxes by the Cafeteria at Jefferson

Celebrate National Library Week and read some books!
How about WLMA's Sasquatch Reading List for 2015.
There is still time for students at Jefferson to finish reading all 12 of the great books on the list.  If you are interested, you can check out the list here, or you can watch my Prezi, including book trailers here.

Why go to the Book Fair Online?

For those of you wondering where the Book Fair went, the physical Scholastic Book Fair is packed up and ready to be picked up by that wonderful Clifford truck next Wednesday.  Yet, if you still want to make sure you get that Minecraft book, you are in luck!  The Scholastic Book Fair is ONLINE until April 4.  You can shop all the books that were here at the school plus thousands more! All you need to do is go to this link -http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/jeffersonelementaryschool177 

In addition, all of the fundraising benefits of shopping at the physical fair will apply to shopping the online fair. Our library will receive benefits, and we will be able to buy more books for all students to read.  Thank you for participating in our Book Fair!!

At the NCCE 2014 Conference! Looking for great new ideas to bring back to Jefferson Library. NCCE 2014

2014 Caldecott and Newbery Winners

Last week, the fourth graders read and rated some of the many, many children's picture books of 2013. They liked some better than others, but we were surprised by the winner of the Caldecott Medal, Locomotive, by Brian Floca.  The illustrations are wonderful, but the story was not so gripping as to keep their attention.  Many gave the highest rating to Journey, by Aaron Becker, so we were not surprised that the Caldecott committee chose it for a Caldecott Honor.  I put together a Prezi presentation on the winners of the Caldecott Medal and Honors, and included the winner of the Newbery, Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo, because I am a huge fan of her books and recently read this one for fun.  You can find my presentation here.  If you have not used Prezi before, take a look! What a great tool for anyone looking for a more interesting way to present materials besides PowerPoint.

Mock Caldecott

Next week the fourth grade students will evaluate some new books before the Caldecott committee makes their announcement on January 27. Here are the titles I selected for them to read. Thank you to Village Books in Bellingham for having such a wonderful selection of books, as always, and a big thank you to Watch.Connect. Read. for posting their own Mock Caldecott list for me to use!