VCS Libraries Making A Difference

Annual Avalanche Safety Class Comes To HHES Library!

vdzlibrarian — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:41:03 +0000

Sara Carter was back once again to share quality video footage, student hands-on activities, and valuable information on Avalanche safty to 5th/6th grade classes.

Check out the ingredients for an avalanche.

These students are setting up the conditions for an avalanche.

Thanks Sara, for your ongoing efforts to inform our kids about the potential

dangers of avalanches.

For more information on avalanche safety go to: www.avalanche.org

http://www.avalanche.org/

After the Bell fills Commons/Library at jr. high

vdzlibrarian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:29:59 +0000

Students fill the Jr. High Library/Commons for After The Bell activities, which begin after school and run until 4:30.

2010 in review

vdzlibrarian — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:58:02 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Minty-Fresh™.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2010. That’s about 3 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 21 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 120 posts. There were 57 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 168mb. That’s about a picture per week.

The busiest day of the year was September 27th with 20 views. The most popular post that day was Elise Sorum Talks About Belgium.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were Private networks, valdezcityschools.org, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, and seo.reachnetwork.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for elise sorum, cynthia rylant, library bulletin boards, elementary libraries, and elementary library.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Elise Sorum Talks About Belgium January 2010

Battle Of The Books: Catch A Dragon By The Tale October 2009

Passport To Reading & Winter Olympic Challenge January 2010

More Emily Rhoda Books To Add To The “Hot Books”! February 2007

Bill Harley: Story Teller, Musician, Performer Extrodenaire January 2010

Battle of the Books 2010-2011

vdzlibrarian — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:29:04 +0000

VCS Gifted and Talented Instructor, Cynthia Shidner and parent: Katie Connell, have teamed up as this year’s 5th/6th Battle of the Books Coaches. Students meet in the library once each week to get ready for the January VCS district battles. Below are a few of this year’s participants. Good Luck Battle Book Participants!

Poetry reading at GJHS

vdzlibrarian — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:21:51 +0000

Reading classes of Mr. Norris and Ms. Huisingh share poetry in December.

HHES Library & Title I Team Up For Reading Challenge

vdzlibrarian — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:22:03 +0000

What do Million Dollar Readers & Read Like A Rock Star have in common?
The HHES Library and The Title I Program are working together this year to promote the love of reading throughout all grades. Second quarter kids in third through sixth grade had the chance to win prizes, photo ops, and enjoy a popcorn movie event if they took the challenge to read at least 6 Accelerated chapter books at their reading level, and receive 80% or better on AR quizzes. Close to 50 students succeeded and joined the fun December 10th.

Here’s one of our 3rd/4th grade Million Dollar Readers!

Check out some of our Reading Rock Star Staff Supporters!

Read Like A Rock Star & Million Dollar Readers!

vdzlibrarian — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:30:17 +0000

Second quarter the Title I Program and the HHES Library joined forces and organized a reading challenge rockin with lots of fun! 3rd – 6th graders have been reading intently the past 9 weeks to attend two reading challenge parties.

Forty, 3rd/4th grade students celebrated a job well done December 10th, by attending the Million Dollar Reader movie/popcorn festivities at the HHES Library. Many thanks to the HHES PTA, especially Mrs. Benzo, for supplying popcorn for the Million Dollar Readers.

Meanwhile, eighteen 5th/6th graders attended the “Read Like a Rock Star” party in the music room. Their party involved jamming to “Just Dance 2” on the Wii, photo ops, and decorating picture frames with their rock-star pics. Thanks to Mrs. Bauman for joining the fun and helping out with our Rock Star party.

A special thanks goes out to the HHES 3rd – 6th teachers for encouraging their kids to join the reading challenge and supporting the love of reading in our school!

VHS Band & “The Tortoise and the Hare”

vdzlibrarian — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:29:42 +0000

The VHS Band performed for Hermon Hutchens doing their version of the folktale, “The Tortoise and the Hare”. To make sure students at our school were familiar with the story we had 3rd/4th grade classes read at least two of the four versions of the story found in the library. After reading they formed small groups and did a compare/contrast. Kids enjoyed the activity and loved having the band perform at our school.

Meet Student Library Intern Haley Morton

vdzlibrarian — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:07:51 +0000

The HHES Library is very lucky to have the assistance of senior Haley Morton this year. Haley comes to our library three mornings a week and helps with a wide variety of library related activities. Thanks Haley for all you do!

HHES Library Gets A New Look!

vdzlibrarian — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:41:28 +0000

Thanks to district funding ear-marked for the HHES Library, we were able to purchase new chairs, tables and apple computers to give our library a fresh look.

The kids are enjoying the four new multi-colored hand chairs in the Everybody Section.