Armadillo Readers’ Choice Winner 2017

Posted on May 3, 2017 by englandlibrary

Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade students read all 10 Armadillo Readers’ Choice books in the library this year, and last week, each student cast their vote on a Google form! It was exciting to see how each class and each grade level voted!

Kindergarten students chose Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor as their favorite.

First Grade students had a tie between Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor and Glow: Animals with Their Own Night-lights by W.H. Beck as their favorite.

Second Grade students chose Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor as their favorite.

Here are the grand totals for ALL of our England Elementary Voters:

I am so proud of all of our Armadillo Readers’ Choice voters this year!

January 2017 by the numbers…

Posted on February 6, 2017 by englandlibrary

January was FUN in the @ElsaEngRRISD Library! More @MackinVIA, a @TBABooks Voting Party w/ 285 readers, & lots of reading! #LibrariesRRock 📚 pic.twitter.com/DkAxLXcuFS

— Emily Kupersztoch (@mrsklibrarian) February 6, 2017

Bluebonnet Recap and Voting Parties 2015

Posted on February 9, 2015 by englandlibrary

At the end of January, we held our third annual Bluebonnet Voting Parties!! This year, so many students were eligible to vote that we had to have THREE voting parties in order to fit everyone in the library!

We had 135 students who qualified to vote for their favorite Bluebonnet book — these 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students read 5 or more Bluebonnet Books from the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List:

45 voters in 3rd grade
48 voters in 4th grade
40 voters in 5th grade

Some other fun facts about this year’s Bluebonnet Program:

England students read 1,570 Bluebonnet Books between August and January! WOW!
Kudos to Mrs. Schermerhorn’s Class for reading the most books – 188!
Mrs. Potral’s Class ROCKED the Bluebonnet Books — they had the most qualified voters — 17!

The Bluebonnet Breakfast will take place this Friday! We have a record-breaking 43 students qualified to attend the Bluebonnet Breakfast, for those who read 10+ books in 3rd grade, 12+ books in 4th grade, and 14+ books in 5th grade!!! WOW!!

Finally, we have 14 students qualified to attend our Campus Battle of the Bluebonnets, for those who read all 20 books. This year’s participants are: Alizeh, Neha, Saanvi, Paridhi, Suhani, Ashley, Changbin, Hailey, Jennifer, Sasank, Aditya, Akshay, Evan and Krisha! Way to go, Bluebonnet Rockstars!

I am SO proud of all of our Bluebonnet Program Participants from this year! Reading the Bluebonnet Books expands your reading horizons and I know our students discovered new authors and genres and enjoyed participating in our fun program!

Below are a few additional images of the Voting Parties:

8 more school days until the Bluebonnet Program ends!!!

Posted on January 13, 2015 by englandlibrary

3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders! The school year is flying by and we are approaching the end of our Bluebonnet Reading Program for this year!

All quizzes must be taken by Friday, January 23rd at 3:00pm!
That means there are only EIGHT school days left to take a quiz in the library — and remember, you can only take one quiz a day!

I am SO proud of the 109 students eligible to vote so far! WOW!
There are about 20 students who only have ONE more quiz to pass in order to be eligible to vote! If that is you, make sure to take that last quiz so you can come to the voting party!

KEEP READING, LEOPARDS!!!

Click below to download and print out the Tracking Chart:

Click below to view or download the Incentive Chart for 2014-15:

Bluebonnet Program ends January 23rd!!!!!

Posted on December 8, 2014 by englandlibrary

3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders! The school year is flying by and we are approaching the end of our Bluebonnet Reading Program for this year! All quizzes must be taken by Friday, January 23rd! That date may seem far away, but really, there are only 21 school days left to take a quiz in the library!

I am thrilled to report that as of this morning, our students have passed 975 Bluebonnet Quizzes!!!!!

I am also SO proud of our 79 students who have passed 5 quizzes and are already qualified to VOTE in the statewide election and attend our Voting Party at the end of January!

Keep up the great work, students, and keep reading!

Click below to download and print out the Tracking Chart:

Click below to view or download the Incentive Chart for 2014-15:

Armadillo Readers’ Choice Winner 2014

Posted on May 12, 2014 by englandlibrary

Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade students read all 10 Armadillo Readers’ Choice books in the library this year, and last week, each student cast their vote using our SMART Response digital remote devices!

It was exciting to see how each class and each grade level voted!

Kindergarten students chose The Watcher by Jeanette Winter as their favorite.

First Grade students chose The Incredible Life of Balto by Meghan McCarthy as their favorite.

Second Grade students had a tie between Dog Loves Drawing by Louise Yates and The Watcher by Jeanette Winter as their favorite.

Here are the grand totals for ALL of our England Elementary Voters:

I am so proud of all of our Armadillo Readers’ Choice voters this year!

Bluebonnet Voting Party 2013

Posted on February 1, 2013 by englandlibrary

On January 30th, we held our first annual Bluebonnet Voting Party!! These 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students read 5 or more Bluebonnet Books from the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List and were excited to cast their vote for their favorite book! Way to go, Bluebonnet Kids!