Sunrise Elementary

Title: The night I followed my dog
Author: Nina Laden
This was a fun book to read and the older classes really enjoyed it, especially 5th & 6th.
It is about what a dog does during the night when you think he is in his doghouse ( which doesn't look like anything you built) sleeping.
The way the book is written with different fonts and pictures for words makes it fun to read.

Title: The Sandman
Author: Ralph Fletcher
The Sandman is a story about a little man who discovers Dragon Scale dust can put people to sleep.
So he searches each night to find boys and girls who have a hard time falling asleep and sprinkles
dragon dust in there eyes. It was really a cute story.

Incentives:
Are you having problems in your library with noise control, sloppy shelves, shelf markers not being put away, running etc.
Try an incentive program in your library.
For example this year we decided to decorate our library with Bugs and Bees. Our incentive goes along with it.
When each class comes to the library 2 kids can earn bee bucks. Either the teacher or the librarian looks for kids that are using really good library manners.
Finding a book, sitting at the tables reading quietly, helping push in chairs etc. At the end of library time we tell the class who earned the bee bucks and we have them come up and put them in the little bug catcher we have for each grade. At the end of the month we draw out 2 names for each grade and they come down and choose a book (we recieved through the bookfair) and a small treat. If the class is really noisy and out of control in the library we don't give any to that class. It really works to keep your library under control and it puts the kids in charge of keeping their library nice and neat. They work hard for them and always ask "who got the bee bucks". The teachers seem to enjoy it also because it helps them keep control of their class.