Summer Reading Program @ ALPL

End of Year Dates:

• 5/27- No School, Memorial Day
• 5/28-5/31- Bike to School Week
• 5/31- Field Day- wear tennis shoes & dress comfortably for the weather
• 6/4- Last Day of School

NEW THIS YEAR!  SUMMER READING MADE SIMPLE!

No more keeping track of summer reading for both the library and Avon Lake schools.  Reading totals completed for the Avon Lake Public Library (ALPL) Summer Reading Club will be shared with the Avon Lake City and St. Joseph schools. Totals will count toward recognition at each school in the fall as well as summer prizes at the library. Your reading log can be turned in to either the library during the summer or to your school in the fall.

Reading logs are being sent home with all Avon Lake Public School and St. Joseph students in grades K-6, can be printed from the library or school websites, or picked up at the ALPL Children’s desk, beginning June 1.  After reading for 10 days, bring the log to the library and collect a small prize and mission badge. With each prize, you’ll also enter a raffle drawing for additional prizes. The first prize will be available June 17.  For further information, contact the Children’s desk at 440-933-8917 or visit www.alpl.org.

Summer Reading Club Launch Party

Saturday, June 8, 10:00 am-noon

Avon Lake Public Library South Lawn, weather permitting (Waugaman Gallery, rain location)

Blast off on a reading mission!  Spend your morning creating and launching all kinds of rockets--water bottle rockets, paper rockets, pool noodle rockets, and more.  You can even launch yourself into the air in the bounce house! Enjoy a tasty rocket pop (what else?) and a cup of Tang to get you in the mood for space adventures.  

More summer fun at the library....

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing by reading a universe of stories.  Visit the library for some out-of-this-world tunes at the Friends of the Library sponsored Pop Rocks concert series. Get ready for extraterrestrial art & science, space-themed book discussions, alien veggies in Mary’s Children’s Garden, galaxy slime, marshmallow fusion and more! Check out ww.alpl.org for summer program information and registration.

Junior Achievement and Field Trip

Field Trip to ALPL: Solids, Liquids and Gasses

Catching Boo Bubbles with Dry Ice

Mr. Kos with Junior Achievement: Our Community

• On Wednesday, we went to the public library to learn about solids, liquids, and gasses. The children had a great time participating in experiments that included mixing solids and liquids, exploring the volume of objects, comparing types of liquids, and learning about atoms and matter. It looked like their favorite part was holding Boo Bubbles, made from dry ice!
• Mr. Kos from Junior Achievement came in this week to teach the class about Our Community. The children learned about our neighborhood, businesses, jobs, goods, and services. They played a Wants or Needs game and also guessed Mystery Jobs when given 3 clues. The students had a chance to be entrepreneurs by creating a business. They created an advertisement for the company and added details such as:  the company's name, what the business was selling, how much items in the store cost, and drawings of their store.
• In phonics this week, we learned the sound "oo, ue, ew" as in food, glue, and flew. Our high frequency words were: answer, brought, busy, door, enough, eyes
• Our essential question was: How can we work together to make our lives better? The stories we read were Super Tools, Click Clack Moo, March On, and Working Together.
• For math this week, we learned to subtract using tens frames, place value, hundreds chart, and mental math. We learned the short cut of sliding our fingers up the hundred chart row and looking at the place value to find the answers.
• The students also started working on their book reports in class! Our book report night is May 15th from 6-6:45 pm. Everything will be done in school and we will set up tables in the gym to present the reports to family and friends. Our theme is "Baking Up Cakes" and if your child wants to bring in an apron to wear for book report night, send an apron to school by May 15th. Aprons are optional, please don't feel that you need to go out and purchase one. The presentation will be about 10 minutes long, so feel free to walk around and see other students' reports!
• West Side Market permission slips and chaperone forms will come home Monday next week. 

Looking Ahead:

• May 8- COSI- our class is from 2:10-2:45 pm
• May 15- Book Report Night in gym 6-6:45 pm
• May 22- West Side Market Field Trip
• May 27- No School
• May 31- Field Day
• June 2- Last Day of School