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Library Happenings

WELCOME BACK!! Hopefully you all had a restful summer of reading! 5th-8th grade students will be going to All Play in Waldoboro to celebrate 25 hours or more of reading this summer.  If your child has read for 25 or more hours this summer, please send in a note stating this along with their name and your signature.  We do not want any of our summer readers to miss out on this fun field trip.
1st-4th grade students that read for 25 hours or more this summer will enjoy the educational presentation by Mr. Drew and his Animals Too.  These students will also need to return a note from home stating that they read for 25 or more hours or they can bring in their log sheet from the Summer Reading Program at Skidompha. Please be sure to return log sheets or notes for students by Friday September 8, 2017.

2016 Summer Reading Celebration Slideshow

Authors Visit

Local author, Kate Kastelein, came in on June 9th to read her book, "Blankie's Diary and to work with students in Mr. Roy's 4th grade classroom on a writers workshop. She shared the process that she went through as she wrote the book and collaborated with the illustrator. Students had lots of questions and received feedback on the books that they were writing as well.

Battle of the Books Returns to GSB!

We are looking forward to another exciting year with Battle of the Books.  This year we are offering 6th-8th grade students the opportunity to participate and compete against other AOS93 schools, in Battle of the Books at Lincoln Academy.  During Battle of the Books, students are given 4 books each to read and keep.  From these books students are expected to write 10 questions from each book. We meet each month to discuss the books and review the questions that we as a group are submitting to the competition. In late winter/early spring we go on a field trip to compete against other teams, answering questions that have been submitted by all of the AOS93 schools. Last year GSB had one team that competed and they came in second in overall points and first in costumes.  The competition is followed by lunch and a brief awards ceremony. We hope to have several teams sign up to compete this year. Watch for sign-up sheets and books that we will be reading!

Chickadee Nominations

And the winner is.... Land Shark! Students voted all across Maine and the opinion remained the same. It was a close match between Land Shark, Hippos are Huge! and Mother Bruce. Follow the link to the Chickadee page on our website links page.  We have received the list for next year and look forward to the voting process again.

Got Legos?

Here in the library we are looking for tabletop building toys, ie. Legos, K'Nex, magnetic blocks etc. If you have outgrown anything like this and you are looking for a good home for them, please see Mrs. Greenleaf.