Holy cow! Welcome back, everyone. How is it that today is the first day of school already? It seems summers go by faster each year. Of course, that may be because I'm just getting older. Ha!
I am so excited to see all your smiling faces again, and I look forward to sharing some great books with you this year. I hope you'll find many new stories that will become personal favorites.
You can count on the library to continue sposnoring many fun activities and events, including our Halloween Trivia Night, which was wildly successful last year.
We will begin rolling out iPads tomorrow to the 8th grade, followed by 7th grade on Friday. Sixth grade will get theirs next week. After that, I hope to get our ELA classes into the library for visits just as soon as possible.
Finally, for those of you who like to donate to your teachers and schools, this is our library's wish list for this school year. The items on the list will help us implement our activities and events. If you order from the Amazon list, those items will be delivered to us here at school. As always, we are so super appreciative of your support!
Until I get to see you, keep reading!
P.S. What was a good book or short story you read over the summer? Feel free to leave a comment if you'd like to share the title with us. I enjoyed reading A Hopeful Heart: Louisa May Alcott Before Little Women. Little Women is one of my favorite books and movies (esp. the 2019 version) and I liked reading about the author's life as a child and young adult.
Not-so-fun-fact: The 2019 version of Little Women was the last movie I saw in a theatre before the world was plunged into the Covid pandemic. My husband and I were visiting our daughter in Chicago for Valentine's Day weekend in February of 2000 and the three of us went to the movies to see it. A little over a month later, everyone would be sheltering in place, and that theatre closed down for a long time. My family loves going to the movies, so I was glad when all the theatres reopened.