Read Across Decatur

Decatur High School will Drop Everything And Read (D.E.A.R.) at 9:45 am. (The last 20 minutes of 1st block.)

We will have magazines and paperbacks for last minute reading choices available in the hall outside the library on Friday morning.  Of course, library books are always available for check out.

Please encourage your class to participate.  Students and teachers, both enjoyed DEAR last year and have asked for a repeat of this event.

DHS Library is also kicking off a Food for Fines campaign which will allow students to pay off their overdue fines and also provide food for needy families.

Each can of food brought in will remove $1 from a student’s library overdue fines.  The Food for Fines campaign will run March 2-March 16.

City Schools of Decatur Libraries will be celebrating NEA’s Read Across America with our 2nd Annual Read Across Decatur on Friday, March 2, 2007.

Each school library is planning special activities for the day. Please talk to your school librarian about the activities that he/she is planning for your school.

D.E.A.R. was a huge success at Decatur High School!  Everyone in the school read uninterrupted for 30 minutes during First Block.  We enjoyed the music of Vivaldi over the video distribution system while we read.  Comments ranged from “When are we going to do that again?” to “I didn’t want to stop reading”.

Tell us how you spent your 30 minutes of D.E.A.R.

Everyone in CSD will Drop Everything And Read on March 2, 2006 for 30 minutes.

• DHS: 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
• Elementaries & Glennwood: 9:20 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
• RMS:  during Language Arts Classes

Make sure you have something to read.  Ask your librarian for suggestions.

We are busy across our school system making READ posters of our staff.  It is so much fun to see what books each individual wants to spotlight.  Memories of childhood favorites (Rabbit Hill) to new favorites (The Tale of Despereaux).  I am busy reading the Chronicles of Narnia, and am about to finish Prince Caspian.  Can’t believe I never read these until now!  We are never bored when we have good books around us!  Ann Whitley

How has the library changed your life? Send your story to Woman’s Day magazine - your story may be one of four chosen to be published in the March 2007 issue! All you have to do is e-mail your story in 700 words or less to womansday@ala.org by May 10, 2006. For more information, visit www.womansday.com/ala. Sponsored by the American Library Association and Woman’s Day magazine.

NEA’s Books Across America has been organized to provide books to public school libraries that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.  Find out how you can help.

The library media specialists across the City Schools of Decatur are sponsoring a Read Across Decatur Day, which will kick off a month of emphasis on our wonderful libraries and our school system’s love of reading. Several activities are in the works, including posters, bookmarks, art contests, and other fun ideas.

We would like for the entire community of the City Schools of Decatur, including all staff, to Drop Everything and Read on March 2, which is Dr. Seuss’ birthday, for thirty minutes somewhere between the times of 9:20 and 10:00 am as suits your school’s schedule. We will ask all resource teachers (i.e. Spanish, Art, Music, PE) to have their books with them and to join the students in this DEAR time.

Watch for posters and announcements of activities throughout the month of March.