Learning Resource Center
Library and Computer Lab
D91 Family Night Game - Friday, June 2nd!!!
Celebrate the beginning of summer with your friends and the game - use your free student ticket and discounted family tickets or buy tickets at the box office.
Click here for the flyer.
April 24-28
We celebrated
National School Library Week
AND Children's Book Week!!
(Miss Jazowski's class on Hats off to Reading Day)
Annual Bookmark Design Contest
"BECAUSE SCHOOL LIBRARIES EMPOWER STUDENTS"
Our winners for this year are:
Early Learners - Maylyne M.
Kindergarten - Amy S.
First Grade - Colton B.
Second Grade - Kassidy K.
Third Grade - Julia D.
Congratulations to all the kids for their great designs!
Early Learners - Maylyne M.
Kindergarten - Amy S.
First Grade - Colton B.
Second Grade - Kassidy K.
Third Grade - Julia D.
Congratulations to all the kids for their great designs!
Book Notes
All library books are due back to school the week of May 15th. Please help your child get her books turned in on time!
Please be aware of your child’s library day and remind him or her to bring all books back every week!! Library books may always be renewed if a child is not done reading them, but MUST be brought in on library day to do so. Here is the schedule:
If a book ever gets damaged, or WET, please be sure to let me know. Wet books take weeks to dry thoroughly and grow MOLD if we don’t take that time. Also, if your child does forget a book, or you can’t find one, please contact me. If I know that a parent is aware of a missing book, I can allow the child to check out books while you search for the missing one. If I do not hear from a parent, your child may lose checkout privileges.
Did your child forget her textbook at school?
The Lockport Public Library has copies of some of our hardcover textbooks. Just ask about them at the Children’s Department desk! These books may be used at the library, but not taken home. Your child does use more books at school, but many of those are softcover and/or workbooks and are available only through the classroom.
Here’s what they have:
Book Notes
All library books are due back to school the week of May 15th. Please help your child get her books turned in on time!
Please be aware of your child’s library day and remind him or her to bring all books back every week!! Library books may always be renewed if a child is not done reading them, but MUST be brought in on library day to do so. Here is the schedule:
- Monday: Bolte
- Tuesday: Adams p.m., Georgopulos, Jazowski, Wagner
- Wednesday: Preboy, Stuchly, Steed, Torkelson, Adams a.m., O'Halloran
- Thursday: Johnson, Stanly
- Friday: Podwika
If a book ever gets damaged, or WET, please be sure to let me know. Wet books take weeks to dry thoroughly and grow MOLD if we don’t take that time. Also, if your child does forget a book, or you can’t find one, please contact me. If I know that a parent is aware of a missing book, I can allow the child to check out books while you search for the missing one. If I do not hear from a parent, your child may lose checkout privileges.
Did your child forget her textbook at school?
The Lockport Public Library has copies of some of our hardcover textbooks. Just ask about them at the Children’s Department desk! These books may be used at the library, but not taken home. Your child does use more books at school, but many of those are softcover and/or workbooks and are available only through the classroom.
Here’s what they have:
- Second Grade
- Trophies Reading
- 2-1 – Just for You
- 2-2 – Banner Days (another school’s)
- Trophies Reading
- Third Grade
- Trophies Reading
- 3-1 – Changing Patterns
- 3-2 – On Your Mark
- Harcourt Science
- Trophies Reading
Computer Bytes
Each class visits the computer lab at least once a week to work on educational games and activities, researching, keyboarding, Google Docs or a variety of other activities depending on grade level and what they are working on in class that week. Third grade has Technology Class with Mrs. Lakics once a week!
We also now have enough Chromebooks for all second and third graders, as well as an additional class set to be shared among kindergarten and first grade. We also have iPads in each classroom and a class set of iPads that grade levels share as needed.
We also now have enough Chromebooks for all second and third graders, as well as an additional class set to be shared among kindergarten and first grade. We also have iPads in each classroom and a class set of iPads that grade levels share as needed.
Volunteer Corner
I’d like to thank Lisa Martisek and Peter Klauser for their help putting away books each week. I could always use more help - please let me know if you have an hour to spare every week or two!
Reading Incentives & Fun Stuff
Feed the Need to Read ~ McDonald's Mondays
The second Monday of every month we hold a fundraiser at the Read Street McDonald's. All you have to do is tell the cashier you would like your order
to help our school libraries and we will receive a percentage of what you spend.
IT DOES NOT COST YOU ANY EXTRA!
Here are pictures of some of the fun we had at our May fundraiser!
The second Monday of every month we hold a fundraiser at the Read Street McDonald's. All you have to do is tell the cashier you would like your order
to help our school libraries and we will receive a percentage of what you spend.
IT DOES NOT COST YOU ANY EXTRA!
Here are pictures of some of the fun we had at our May fundraiser!
Bluestem Bunch
The Bluestem Bunch is a third grade book club offered in the winter. Members read books nominated for the state's Bluestem Award and we meet to discuss the books. This year's winning book, both among MG students and statewide, is El Deafo!
Club members were honored at the May Board of Education meeting.
Pumpkin-Palooza
We offer this fun contest every October.
White Oak Library
Any child who completes a reading program at the public library should bring in their certificate. I will give them extra rewards here for being a Responsible Reader!
Spikes' Super Students
The Spikes' Super Students reading program, brought to us by the Joliet Slammers and the University of St. Francis gives students the opportunity to earn a FREE ticket to a baseball game by reading. This program is over now. Ticket requests must be turned in to Milne Grove by May 17 if you would like to order your ticket(s) through school.
Mrs. Georgopulos' class had the highest percentage of Home Runs turned in and earned a Pajama Day!
Six Flags Read to Succeed
This program has ended for this year. Tickets are expected to be delivered in May.
National Library Week - Bookmark Design Contest
Student in all grades are invited to create a bookmark based on each year's theme every April. One winner in each grade receives prizes and a giant copy of their own bookmark. In addition, each child in the grade receives a copy of the winning bookmark, and every entrant will get his own bookmark back, mounted on colored paper and laminated. These will be passed out in mid-May. This year's winners are listed above.
We offer this fun contest every October.
White Oak Library
Any child who completes a reading program at the public library should bring in their certificate. I will give them extra rewards here for being a Responsible Reader!
Spikes' Super Students
The Spikes' Super Students reading program, brought to us by the Joliet Slammers and the University of St. Francis gives students the opportunity to earn a FREE ticket to a baseball game by reading. This program is over now. Ticket requests must be turned in to Milne Grove by May 17 if you would like to order your ticket(s) through school.
Mrs. Georgopulos' class had the highest percentage of Home Runs turned in and earned a Pajama Day!
Six Flags Read to Succeed
This program has ended for this year. Tickets are expected to be delivered in May.
National Library Week - Bookmark Design Contest
Student in all grades are invited to create a bookmark based on each year's theme every April. One winner in each grade receives prizes and a giant copy of their own bookmark. In addition, each child in the grade receives a copy of the winning bookmark, and every entrant will get his own bookmark back, mounted on colored paper and laminated. These will be passed out in mid-May. This year's winners are listed above.
