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                                  SIT. STAY. READ!

Hello! My name is Denise Ostrem and I am returning to STM School for my twenty-first year as the school's librarian. I have two daughters who attended St. Thomas More School several years ago. Each of the years that I have been the librarian here, I have had a different reading-incentive theme. This year, Dogs prevail! This is our most popular subject for check-outs!

Thus, our library theme is: Sit! Stay! READ! We are encouraging the idea among our students to take time to sit, slow down from our active lives, and enjoy the pleasure of reading everyday! 

The schedule this year is such that each grade attends library sessions twice-a-week. Wednesdays are book check-out days, story-time or book talks. On Thursdays we are learning library skills, or researching, and reading stories.

Thursdays are typing-skills brush-up days for grades four through eight to build on what they have already learned. The program that we use is accessible online: typing.com and will provide an opportunity to those students who choose to enhance their skills even more than our schedule allows, which is twenty minutes a week.

The Spring Book Fair will be held in April this school year. Robert's Hall is our new location, which is much more spacious for the materials, and the students and their families! Please check the school calendar for the dates.

SIX FLAGS GREAT AMERICA READ to SUCCEED Program is underway for all students in grades K-6. The reading log sheets for that program have been distributed to each student. The goal to earn a free ticket for themselves is to read for SIX hours and record it on the sheet, and hand it in by February 21st. The tickets will be distributed in late May to those who qualify. Reading time for our School's program, the Six 
Flags Read to Succeed, and Cougars can all be recorded on their own sheets, but the time does NOT need to be extra beyond whatever program you choose to do. 

Good news to report: I am observing more students checking-out books, reading, and sharing their enthusiasm about what they've read than in any previous year here at STM!  We have acquired approximately 350 new books during the current school year!                                                                                                                                                     Books are back!!!!!