Library

Mrs. Bucher

Celebration Book Club

We have a Celebration Book Club through the Nokomis Library. Maybe you are celebrating a birthday, communion, or some other special occasion. Perhaps you have a special relative you would like to have a memory of, or just honor for being a wonderful person in your life.

To celebrate, please consider buying and donating a brand-new hardcover picture book, fiction chapter book, biography, or other non-fiction book. This book would then become part of the Nokomis Library and would have a special bookplate from the student inside the front cover.

If you would like a list of recommended books, please let the main office know, and a list can be sent to you, or you can use the link below.

Click here for our book list. It will be updated periodically.

Nokomis Library has been designated as an Advanced NOVEL-ready Electronic Doorway Library by Eastern Suffolk BOCES and New York State. This means our students have access to services, such as the Virtual Reference Collection, from their home.

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Down Ribbon: Be a Better Student! Read! Why? Check out the math!

A cute website from Emerson School District in New Jersey all about good book care.

The Nokomis Library

Our Library contains over 9,000 books, including reference and professional books. We have fiction, non-fiction, biographies, folk and fairytales, big books, story collections, and I-Can-Read chapter books. Students in grades 3-5 may also select from a number of student periodicals. Classes are held in the instructional area which includes a screen and Internet connection for large-group instruction. We also have a wall-mounted Smartboard, which is an interactive whiteboard that is used for all grades. Students can directly interact with the computer in a variety of content and subject areas. This is especially useful for visual and tactile learners.

Bookcases have been re-arranged in the Library and we have a new large instruction area for the Smartboard as well as increased space between the bookcases for easier student access.

Primary students focus on literature through author and/or themed units.

We have 12 desktop computers with Internet access, in addition to a laptop with video projector for instruction. Students are guided through research projects using software programs such as PowerPoint, the Virtual Reference Collection (electronic research databases) and select websites. Students are taught methods of evaluating websites for content. Student search engines and directories include Yahooligans, Ask for Kids, and Kids Click.

Imagination!!

Reading is knowledge

and knowledge is power!

Sachem Public Library	http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us
American Library Association Book Awards	http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bookmediaawards
Suffolk Cooperative Library System	http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
Children’s Literature	http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
Suffolk County Library System OPAC	http://xaaa.calypso.scoolaid.net/bin/search
Virtual Reference Collection— Elementary See Mrs. Bucher for password information	http://xaaa.calypso.scoolaid.net/bin/vrc/vrcList

Why Your Child Should Read for 20 minutes Every Day

LET'S FIGURE IT OUT --- MATHEMATICALLY!

Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes

Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.

By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days. One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?

Some questions to ponder
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school and in life?

WHY READ 30 MINUTES A DAY?

*If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is five years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!

*Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week, and the child's hungry mind lose 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairytales, and stories.

*A kindergarten student who has not been read aloud to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment.

*Therefore 30 minutes daily = 900 hours
30 minutes weekly = 130 hours
Less than 30 minutes weekly = 60 hours

Guess you now understand why reading daily is so very important. Why not have family night reading? It is great to just shut off the television for 20-30 minutes and read and share.