The 2018-2019 school year began with our school finishing up construction and preparing for a fresh new year. The Bradfield Library hit the ground running and is gearing up for a busy October!
I started off the year by working the Reading with Rodney bus at the back to school rally. Even though it was raining through the whole event, the bus was packed! I have done the Reading with Rodney bus many times, but this was the most crowded I have ever seen it. I love that so many parents and students were wanting to start the year off with books!
We had eight students complete their summer reading Bingo cards! They enjoyed lunch in the library with a friend along with prizes.
A generous donor allowed us to add some games to the library's makerspace this year. Students have enjoyed getting to have fun while working on their collaboration and social skills.
We celebrated Cybersafety week with announcements every morning and classes signing pledges to by cybersafety smart. Mrs. Gonzalez' class won the Dums Dums.We also did a cybersafety poster contest and had several great entries. Our winner was Sofia Ortega for the second year in a row. She will go on to compete against other posters in the district.
A new addition to our school this year are signs that staff members are posting to show what they are currently reading. I was so proud of our cafeteria staff for wanting to collaborate to post pictures of books so that they could make connections with the students. These posters are starting some awesome conversations about reading and demonstrating to our students that #gisdreads
We kicked off this year's book project challenge and the students were so excited! This picture is just a sampling of the cool projects that came in for round one.
Our bilingual 5th graders all completed a book project featuring a famous Hispanic and using biographies from the library.
The students presented their project about their famous Hispanic on our Multicultural Day. Parents, staff members, and other students came through to hear about the famous Hispanics. The 5th graders and Mrs. Valdez received rave reviews for these projects!
Next month will bring the start of book club, coding club, book fair, and other fun!
