Ridgecrest Elementary Library

Visit our wonderful neighbor Ridgecrest Books next week to buy books in honor of Banned Books Week, and help raise money for our Library!

Banned Books Week is an annual event sharing the value of free and open access to information. It brings together the entire book community, librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers in support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas.

You may be surprised at the books that have been challenged or banned recently and in the past. Visit Ridgecrest Books next week to buy or order these books and celebrate the freedom to read!

ReadAThon Didn't see the intro letter yet? Here is is! Hello Ridgecrest families! The PTA Read-A-Thon is coming back to Ridgecrest and will take place Monday February 13 – Friday March 3 ! A paper packet...

Readathon is coming!

ReadAThon Didn't see the intro letter yet? Here is is! Hello Ridgecrest families! The PTA Read-A-Thon is coming back to Ridgecrest and will take place Monday February 13 – Friday March 3 ! A paper packet...

Come on by Shorewood High School tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday! There are some great books available. 📚

Coming home soon in your child's boomerang folder will be a packet of information about our Annual ReadAThon! The ReadAThon is our biggest student-community fundraiser, where children collect pledges for their minutes read through the weeks of February 13. - March 3. Check out the information on our website: https://www.ridgecrestpta.org/readathon.html

It's so here are a few books we are excited about that are on our library shelves!

There are so many good nonfiction books out there for K-5 students! Here are a few we have read together recently. Families, ask your students about what they learned!

"The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field" which was inspiring and taught us about solving problems.

"Claude: The True Story of a White Alligator" is about an albino alligator who lives at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco: https://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/the-swamp

We also read "Six Dots" about Louis Braille and his invention of the Braille alphabet (4th and 5th grades), and examined some magazines in Braille and practiced writing in Braille.

Fifth graders reading to their kindergarten buddies in the library just makes my day.