Summer's Here!

So, the kids have left the building, and the teachers are finishing up in their rooms.  I have taken down all the decorations and cleaned off the circulation desk, but the LMC never really closes.  First of all, there are still students who have not returned books, which means I will have to mail letters home and hope for the best.  Secondly, I have reports to write and planning to do for the fall.  Finally, I have all those items in my office that I just didn't have the time to deal with during the last month.  Each summer, I promise myself that I will start in the fall with no backlog of work -- but it just doesn't ever work out that way.  If nothing else, the mail will continue to arrive, so I will always have that waiting for me!

On a more positive note, a number of students took advantage of the offer to check out up to 10 books for the summer.  Studies have shown that reading just 4 books over the summer can help a student maintain more of what they learned.  I am hoping that more students will make the commitment to read over vacation as we keep trying to eliminate that summer loss of learning.  If anyone is looking for some suggestions for good reads, here are the top 10 most checked out books in the Intermediate LMC this year.

1. Guinness World Records 2010
2. The Lightning Thief
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
5. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
6. Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal
8. Guinness World Records 2011
9. Ripley's Believe It Or Not
10. Walk Two Moons