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Spring Book Fair 2024
April 29th - May 3rd
Mark your calendars! Our sports-themed "All Star Book Fair" begins Monday, April 29th, and runs through Friday morning, May 3rd. Stop by during school hours or after school (Monday-Thursday) until 4:00pm to find a book for your star reader! Or join us for Family Night on Tuesday, April 30th, until 8:00pm, for some crafts, snacks, and sporty fun!
Can't make it in person? Our online shopping will be available from April 25th through May 8th at https://www.scholastic.com/bf/sacredheartschool15 - all proceeds benefit our school and classroom libraries.
Want to help? Contact Paula Asch at library@sacred-heart-school.org or watch for the Sign-up Genius page coming soon!
Scholastic's All for Books program has a new name: Share the Fair!
As always, one of our goals is to ensure as many children as possible receive and have access to books. One of the ways we can do that is through the Share the Fair program, which is run in conjunction with our Book Fair. With your help, the money collected goes to purchasing more books for our library and classrooms, and to put books into the hands of children who do not have any.
As the Spring Book Fair is the week before Teacher Appreciation Week, any Share the Fair donations in the classroom collection jars will go to updating our classroom libraries for our teachers. We will also continue to accept donations of new or gently used books for BookSmiles, a nonprofit organization that promotes literacy and the joy of reading by giving books to children throughout New Jersey and the Greater Philadelpha area - or as they put it, they "irrigate book deserts!". Visit booksmiles.org for more information on this great organization.
The classes with the most participation will earn a dress-down day and some outdoor fun and treats during their Library period.
Thank you for your donations. Your act of kindness helps bring more knowledge, imagination, and love for reading into the lives of our students and community.
Over 20 years ago, the National Education Association (NEA) decided to do something BIG to get kids excited about reading. They called it NEA's Read Across America. Launched and celebrated annually on Dr. Seuss's birthday, March 2, it was - and still is - the largest celebration of reading this country has ever seen.
On March 2nd, 2024, Dr. Seuss would have been 121! We had a great time celebrating all week with some themed dress-up days for the students and special readings of our favorite Dr. Seuss stories. Students created their own Dr. Seuss characters and enjoyed the stories read by our "mystery readers." March Madness is still going on - what will the favorite picture book and chapter book be? Stay tuned to find out!
Thanks to your generous support of our Book Fairs, we are able to continue to subscribe to the Scholastic Go! package of online databases. The following databases are included in this online research tool: The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Amazing Animals of the World, The New Book of Popular Science, America the Beautiful, and Lands and Peoples. Interactive Atlases and Dictionaries are also included.
To try this resource, go to http://go.scholastic.com
Feel free to contact the library at library@sacred-heart-school.org if you have any questions or if your student needs the password.