Clovis Grove library will be participating in selecting a winning Golden Archer Book again this year. This is an award that is only give out in Wisconsin and only students in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades gets to vote on which book they think should win.

Watch the slide show below to see the books the students will listen to in the library and get to pick the one they like the best. This will start in January of 2010!

Golden Archer 2010 on PhotoPeach

Mrs. Borowski's Voki Biography Projects

Thomas Edison by Connor



Thomas Edison by Luke


Jesse Owens by Josh


Ferdinand Magellan by Lupita



Martin Luther King Jr by Olivia



Abraham Lincoln by Grace



Susan B. Anthony by Dakota


Amelia Earhart by Karsten



Marco Polo by Katarina


Dolly Madison by Sheridon



Abraham Lincoln by Kurtis


Neil Armstrong by Allie


Thomas Jefferson by Stefan



Laura Ingalls by Mari



Johnny Appleseed by McKennzie



Jean Fritz by Ceasar



Barack Obama by Anthony



Abraham Lincoln by Ashton



John F. Kennedy by Katelin



Beethoven by Evan


Harry Houdini by Jorge


Abraham Lincoln by Kou



Harry Houdini by Eric


Dale Earnhardt by Alex

Mr. Viotto's Voki Biography Projects

Jo Jo by Cheyenne



Benjamin Franklin by Elizabeth



George Washington by Gavin



Lebron James by Greg



Brett Favre by Preston



George Washington by Dayton



Sergeant York by Norberto



Anne Frank by Emmalie



Dakota Fanning by Kaitlynn



Michael Jordan by Tyrell



Elvis Presley by Liberty



Kelly Clarkson by Ariana



Janet Jackson by Ariana



Brett Favre by Max



George Washington by Richard



Anne Frank by Anna



Martin Luther King Jr by Giselle



Michael Jordan by Jacob



Martin Luther King Jr by Maria



Brett Favre by Devon



LaDanian Tomlinson by Brady



Betsy Ross by Alexis



Brett Favre by Jake



Miley Cyrus by Julia



Harriet Tubman by Amber



Abraham Lincoln by ViChieng

4th Grade Biography Project

Mr Viotto's, Mrs. Borowski's and Mrs. Fritsch's 4th grade classes are learning about biographies. They will be checking a biography out from the library and gathering information about their person before turning it into a Voki project in the computer lab.

Here is an example Voki project about Shel Silverstein.



Get a Voki now!

SMARTboard in the Library!

New in the Clovis Grove Library this year is an electronic whiteboard we call a SMARTboard. Here is a 1st grade class learning how to take care of their library books doing and interactive picture sort.

Did you hear?

Did you hear there is going to be a 4th Diary of a Wimpy Kid book? The book will be out October 12, 2009. No one knows the title of the book yet, that will be released soon!

Fractured Fairy Tales

This week in second grade we are learning about fractured fairy tales. A fractured fairy tale is almost the same as any normal fairy tale you know, like Sleeping Beauty or Cindrella, but the author has changed some of the characters, part of the setting or part of the plot of the story.



The last time the second grade was in the library, we heard the Disney story of Cinderella. This week we are reading, Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston.


Some of the other great fractured fairy tales we have in the library are: Little Red Cowboy Hat - from Little Red Riding Hood, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - from The Three Little Pigs, Sumorella - from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beaks - from Beauty and the Beast to name a few.

Dewey Decimal System

This week in the library, 3rd and 4th grade students will be learning about the Dewey Decimal System. That is the 10 groups that nonfiction books are separated into in on the library shelves.

The dewey decimal system was created by a man named Melvil Dewey in the year 1876. This is a picture of Melvil Dewey.

This is a great link to the 10 groups within nonfiction. http://www.scottpublib.org/dragon/Dewey.html

Lost Book Makes a Return

We have been missing book number 4 in the Gordon Korman series On the Run. There are 6 books in this series and missing book number four was making readers mad that they were missing an important part of the series.

The wait is over. We now have a copy of The Stowaway Solution back on our library shelves.

In this series two kids, Aiden and Meg Falconer have to help their parents. Their parents are about to be sent away to life in prison. Aiden and Meg have to follow a trail of clues to prove that their parents are innocent. Each book holds all the adventures that Aiden and Meg get into on the way to saving their parents. A great series by Mrs. Loughrin's favorite author, Gordon Korman. Once you start reading the books, it is hard to put them down!

Battle of the Books - Final Competition

The 4 fifth grade boys who were competing in the Statewide Battle Competition battled on February 25th. They scored 210 points out of the possible 375 points. We sent in that score to be compared to the other scores in the state of Wisconsin.

There was a tie for 1st place. Pleasant View Elementary School in Antigo and Green Lake Elementary School in Green Lake. These teams tied with 360 points!

We will do Battle of the Books again next year. I will let next years 4th and 5th grade students know the books hopefully by the end of this school year. Next year will we be more active in discussing the books and learning them inside out.

Get ready for Battle of the Books 2010!

New Playaways in the Library!

Twenty two new playaways are making their way onto the Clovis Grove Library shelves this week. Some of the titles of these new recorded books are: Encyclopedia Brown Gets his Man by Sobol, Found by Haddix, Judy Moody Gets Famous! by McDonald, Junebug by Mead and Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Kinney, to name a few of the fiction titles. We also have some nonfiction titles, like Extreme Sports: Guide to Maximum Adrenalin Thrills by Tomlinson.

Playaways are for 4th and 5th grade students to check out. Remember you only get to have a playaway checked out for one week and they it has to be returned so that others can enjoy listening to their favorite books too.

Check out the front of the playaway box. If there is a sticker on it that says, "We have this as a book too!", check the shelves for the book so you can follow along as you listen.

Happy Listening!

Clovis Grove Golden Archer Winner!

The votes are all counted up from the Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders voting for their one favorite book to win the Golden Archer Award. The Clovis Grove Golden Archer winner for 2009 is Chester by Melanie Watt!

This is supposed to be a book about a mouse, but greedy Chester thinks the book should be about him. He interrupts Melanie's book and writes and draws all over the pages with his red marker. Finally Melanie lets Chester be the star of the book, but remember, Melanie is in control of what happens! A great book that will make kids and adults laugh!

All of the Golden Archer books are now out on the shelves for students to check out and enjoy!

Thanks for voting! We'll do the Golden Archer Awards again next year. Get ready for Golden Archer Awards 2010!

Voting Time - Golden Archer Awards 2009

The time is coming near for students in grades K-2 to vote for their favorite Golden Archer book. The final book will be read this week, Chester by Melanie Watts, and then every student in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades will get to vote for the one book they liked the best.

Students have been asked to think about which book had the characters they liked the best, which book had the illustrations they liked the best and which book they overall liked the best.

Once every student at Clovis Grove has voted, then we send in our totals and wait until all the votes are added together before we find out the winning Golden Archer book for the whole state of Wisconsin.

Last year the winner was Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems. Who will it be this year?

Caldecott Winning Book at Clovis Grove

The 2009 Caldecott winning book is at Clovis Grove Library. The book, The House in the Night, written by Susan Marie Swanson and illustrated by Beth Krommes has been in the library since September 2008 but was only awarded the Caldecott Medal January of 2009.

The author, Susan Marie Swanson, grew up in Chicago and now lives in Minnesota. The illustrator, who is the person who wins the Caldecott Medal for the pictures in the book, is Beth Krommes. Mrs. Krommes grew up in Pennsylvania and now lives in New Hampshire.

Stop in the library to check out this new award winning book today!

Clovis Grove Battle of the Books

Last week we held the Clovis Grove Battle of the Books. Three teams competed but only one team could be the winner at Clovis Grove. Our winning team is made up of four 5th grade boys!
Check the window outside the library for pictures of the teams that participated in Battle of the Books.

These boys will continue to practice trivia about the book and will take a practice battle before the battle against all the other winning teams in Wisconsin. In the final battle the boys will have 30 minutes to answer 25 questions about the books they have read.

Good Luck!!!