February 21, 2020

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Happy break McKelvie! The McKelvie Library was a very busy place this week. There were eight classes that came this week to build their reading stacks for vacation, as well as prepare for a March Madness reading activity which will begin for many classes after break. Students were exposed to books in a restaurant-like setting complete with reservations! Students were "served" various genres or formats of books during the tastings. They used their menus at the end of our time together to make a book selection(s) in preparation for their March Madness Book Tournament and to make sure that they had titles to dive into over break.

In addition to these classes, the library has been busy with students coming to relax and read, building with Keva Planks, using the cat's cradle strings, solving the many Rubik's Cubes we have, creating broken crayon art, creating with origami and putting together our latest community puzzle!

Can you believe that Brendan Sullivan found a "Golden Ticket" in August and then, right before vacation, was reading and found another "Golden Ticket"? Click HERE to see his picture. Note the face and title of the book he was looking at. :)

If you are traveling, have a safe trip! If you and your family are staying local, enjoy all that NH has to offer this time of year. Spring is coming...

Warm regards,
Mrs. Cote

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