Northfield Library Newsletter

We celebrated Unity Week in the library by reading The Circles All Around Us, written by Brad Montague. The book talks about expanding our circle so that we can build relationships and grow our community through friendship and kindness.

Thank you to Ms. Shon Smith for donating this book to our library.

We also watched the story Maddi's Fridge, written by Louis Brandt to highlight the importance of helping those in need and being kind to others.

We honored out Veterans by reading some wonderful books together. The students really enjoyed sharing stories about their family members who are currently serving or who have served in the armed forces.

Here are some books we read together in Adaptive Library:

November/December- We are Connected

We read the story Our School is a Family, written by Shannon Olsen and talked about all of the people we see in our building and how we are all connected. We wrote some Tootles to give to those around the school who help us, encourage us and make us smile every day.

We continued reading the nominated books for the Buckeye Book Award during the 2nd quarter. Once we finished reading them, each student cast their vote for their favorite book. The Buckeye Book Award winners were announced at the beginning of December and the 2024 winners are:

K-2nd grade category: Stinkbird Has a Super Power, by Jill Esbaum

3rd-5th grade category: The Wild Robot Protects, by Peter Brown

We read the following books to celebrate the season and the holidays:

The 3rd and 4th grade students watched a video on Max Brailler, the author of Eerie Elementary andThe Last Kids on Earth book series. In this video, he talked about how he became and author and all of the elements that he likes to put into his books. Max Brailler enjoys writing about friendships and zombies and really knows how to connect with his readers through humor. The Last Kids on Earth are really popular books at Northfield Elementary and a lot of kids have watched the newly developed series on Netflix.

Thank you to all of the families that registered their child for the Northfield Library Book Club. There are 67 students that participated this year and the money donated will be used to purchase new books for our library. The students that participated will be recognized during their library time for their contribution, which should take place in January or February. Thank you!!