OK, start planning your trips to the city library and check out these books on ReadKiddoRead!
http://www.readkiddoread.com/home

Also, look at this list by Judy Freeman, who knows good books:
http://api.ning.com/files/P6uHAQ9-GHhFiLctKh5YbiDx8y4bAPXopOfDj8uhBDencQzTDwl8CwyXtD8rfGCArUNwuVX-UWsmMwRxgxeP9QikQsv5S4fu/TheUltimateSummerReadingListprek4.pdf

Reading Rally Day will turn twenty this year! For 20 years the Zavala School Community has celebrated reading with a fantastic celebration. Readers share their love for reading through sharing books that reflect their career or favorite hobbies. Top readers get to ride in convertibles and trucks in the parade. The UT Longhorn Band leads the parade that circles the school and ends up on the stage at the Pan Am Center.

Volunteer with us this May the 7th! We need volunteers to read to classes, help with the parade, and have a good time!

Get ready to read! On January 22nd, we will launch, or begin, our school Read-a-thon. This program is run by Bookspring, and helps raise money for our Reading is Fundamental books and books that are given to babies at clinics. You will get pledges for pennies for every page you read. The top page reader will win a beautiful trophy!

So your child does not like to read? You are not alone. Get help and advice at the Parent's Choice website here. See also links for homework help.

http://www.parents-choice.org/article.cfm?art_id=66&the_page=reading_list

Our Christmas Book Fair will be held in the library on December 3rd. Save your money and do your Christmas shopping that night! Santa will also be here for family photos just like last year. We will have the family night in the library from 6 to 8 at night.

5th and 6th graders! Meet in the library at 5:45p.m. before the PTA performance on October 29th where you sing for the audience. After the show, come to the library and listen to scary stories and read along by flashlight to the favorite book we have in the library, Scary Stories to tell in the Dark. See you then, ha ha ha ha ha woooooo!

Make sure you read the Webliography for this year's Bluebonnet Books. There are links to authors and other related information for every book on the list.

http://www.txla.org/groups/tba/nominees.html

I am starting at the very first book and reading them all in sequence! It is so much fun, because you see things the second time around that you did not see the first time. Plan to read them too, so we can have a Harry Potter trivia contest when school begins again!

The founder of KidsReads asked her son to compile a list of his favorite books. Boys want action and adventure and this list will help you find books you like, so click this link to see what I mean.






http://www.kidsreads.com/features/great-books-boys.asp

Remember the library will be open on Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings in June from 9 to 12. Bring your permission form signed in order to come by yourself. You must be 8 or above to come by yourself. I will have listening centers for audio books. I will also be open on two Wednesday Nights- June 10th and June 24th from 5 to 7pm.


The summer program at the Austin Public Library is going on too. Be sure to read a good book in your cozy nook! Unplug your tv and plug your brain into a good book!

We will welcome author Liz Scanlon to Zavala for Reading Rally Day. Here is a link about her books:

http://www.lizgartonscanlon.com/html/books.htm

I will have bookmarks for students tomorrow for National Poem in your Pocket Day. See here for many activities for this day. If the students have a poem in their pocket, and read it to me, they will get a bookmark.
http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=720

Here is another helpful link:
http://kellyrfineman.blogspot.com/2008/04/poem-in-my-pocket-national-poetry-month.html

http://www.teachersdomain.org/

This is an excellent site, filled with helpful instructional videos.

I made a new picture books for big kids shelf in the library. There are many books by authors like Eve Bunting that only a more mature reader would "get", or understand. The illustrations in some of these books are especially beautiful. If you are learning to read English, a picture book will help you understand the text.

The author that bought us the Goosebumps series is back again! This time the series will be called Horrorlands. The Horrorland copies I had were grabbed up by the boys in the Lightening Thief book club, so you will have to wait until they are checked in again. Sorry folks.