In first grade storytime this week we are reading Waddles by David McPhail and The Bear Who Shared by Catherine Rayner. These book are both new books that we received in a recent book order. This first grade class listened so well during storytime that I let them all choose an animal to read to after they had checked out. They looked so cute that I had to take their picture. 
This week fourth grade students are visiting the library and exploring wonderful poetry books. They are looking for examples of five types of poetry: concrete, free verse, haiku, clerihew, and limerick. They are then copying down the poems that they find and illustrating them. They will be adding to these poems by writing five original poems. We are also learning to use the term "poet" instead of "author" when referring to poetry.
Thank you to all of you who came and shopped at our Taylor Book Fair last week! We had an amazing book fair thanks to all of you. I especially want to thank Mrs. Howard for all of her hard work as our PTA book fair chair. It takes a lot of work to run a successful book fair, and Mrs. Howard assembled a wonderful team of volunteers who set up, ran, and packed up the book fair. As your librarian I am particularly grateful because the library benefits so much from the book fair. In the coming weeks look for many new books to be added to our collection, including many of the Bluebonnet books for next year! These were obtained for our library using book fair proceeds and we are very excited to have them!!
