Turkey lurking & Book Fair here

The third graders observed a wild turkey right outside the library this morning, on the Rose Park School lawn.

Parent volunteers Tina Smith, Gwen Felton, and Zelda Boogman transformed the Library into a Scholastic Book Fair this afternoon.   Books will available for purchase before and after school on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of Parent-Teacher Conference Week.  Profits will benefit the library colletion.   See my previous blog entry for schedule details.

The Book Fair is coming!

Next week the boxes will be unpacked and a wide selection of books will be available for purchase.  Profits will go to the Rose Park Library collection.  Rose Park families are welcome to visit the Book Fair on Nov. 2nd-4th, before and after school.  We will be open until 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov.4th during parent-teacher conferences.

Got books? We do!

Those empty shelves in my previous blog entry had books on them in time for the first day of school.  And it got even better!   This fall, the Rose Park PTA designated $3,000 for new library books.  You won't find many of the new books sitting on the shelves, though.  The kids are checking them out.

We have new books about bats, owls, dinosaurs, WWII, the Colorado Rockies team, the "Biscuit the dog" easy-reader series by Capucilli, the newest in the Magic Tree House series, and more.

The New, Improved, Remodeled Rose Park Library!

The Rose Park PTA's fundraising efforts have transformed the library!  School district carpenters  installed new shelving in August, right after the new carpeting was laid.

We are enjoying the open space and the attractive, functional shelving.  No one misses the duct tape holding together the old carpeting.

In addition to Library & Information Use classes taught by the librarian, the Library is used for Extended Studies, art classes, band & orchestra instruction, meetings, and teacher training.