St. Joseph's Community School Library Media Center

Library Media Center
St. Joseph's Community School

99 Elm Street
Malone, NY 12953
(518) 483-7806

May

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Special May Days
5/1 – Mother Goose Day
5/3 – Parent Teacher Conferences – ½ day for students
5/5 – Cinco De Mayo
5/8 – National Teacher Day
5/9 – National School Nurse Day
5/10 – Clean up Your Room Day
5/15 – National Chocolate Chip Day
5/21 – Steven Layne Author Visit
½ day for Students
5/22 – Steven Layne Family Presentation
Middle School 6:00-7:00 pm
5/23 – Penny Day
5/25 – National Tap Dance Day
5/25 – No School – Unused Snow Day!
5/28 – Memorial Day – No School!

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Author Birthdays

5/5 – Leo Lionni
5/9 – Eleanor Estes
5/14 – Eoin Colfer

5/15 – Norma Fox Mazer
Frank L. Baum
5/17 – Gary Paulsen

5/18 – Lillian Hoban
5/20 – Mary Pope Osborne

5/22 – Arnold Lobel
5/29 – Andrew Clements

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May is...

American Bike Month
National Hamburger Month
National Physical Fitness & Sports Month

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Researching a country?

Go to this great source...

You can click on the list of countries or use the map
to select the area you are studying.

Book Talk Lunches!
May

Come and share your favorite books over lunch with your friends and
Ms. Marks and Miss Schack. Sign-ups are in the library (limit is 4 students per class).

Name That Book Cover Contest

Check out the book cover contest in the library! Take a guess to see what covers are there...you could win a prize!

Resource of the month...

Exploring Nature
from Sheri Amsel

   “Exploring Nature is an award-winning website with
    natural science content and materials for educators,
    students, and parents.

    Students can use the animal databases to research
    animal reports, complete homework assignments, and
    find pictures of their favorite animals. They can learn to
    draw animals, work on vocabulary with word searches
    or just have fun doing mazes and watching wildlife
    movies. Parents have a resource for helping their children
    do online research and complete school assignments.
    They can choose from the dozens of science activities for
    educational and creative rainy day pastimes.

    Librarians, classroom teachers, can use Exploring Nature
    to develop lesson plans for units on animals (mammals,
    birds, insects, spiders, sharks, fish, amphibians, reptiles,
    etc.), plants (wildflowers, trees, cacti, etc.), biomes (forests,
    deserts, oceans, polar regions, rain forests, wetlands, the
    tundra, etc.), adaptations (structure and function), farm
    animals, life cycles, food webs, ecology, the human body,
    genetics, space and the environment.

Last Update 5/1/12