2015-2016 Red Clover Award

Red Clover Award

2015-2016

See all the books.  Access ideas and links related to the books at the Red Clover web site. I highly recommend visiting this site with your child to see the books that we’ve been reading as well as allowing them to dive deeper into the books by accessing related content.

The Red Clover award program is Vermont’s children’s choice picture book award.  Every year ten outstanding picture books are selected by a committee of teachers and librarians as the year’s Red Clover nominees. Students in grades K-4 all around the state of Vermont listen to the ten nominees and then vote on their favorite in late March/early April.  Voting takes place in April and the winner of this year's Red Clover Award will be announced in May.

UID library web page UCS library web page Red Clover web page

The best way to access this site is to navigate via the library web page on our school’s web site.  Click on the Red Clover icon and it will take you to the Red Clover site with all of the books listed on the left hand side.

Have fun!

Mr. Baron, UID/UCS Library Media Specialist

Thankful Kindergarteners at UCS

UID Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is Coming!

The whole school is excited about our upcoming Book Fair. An amazing selection of books is headed our way!

At School Book Fair Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 1

Open Tuesday, Wednesday night, and Thursday.

Evening Book Fair Event: Wednesday, Sept. 30 6:00-7:00

(come to the UID Open House night and shop the book fair)

Online Book Fair Dates: Sept. 22-Oct. 8

The online book fair has a larger selection of books than what will be at the school fair. Books purchased at the online fair will ship for free to the school 24-48 hours after the online fair ends on October 8th. 
Our goal is to raise money to buy high interest books for our library collection. Third and fourth grade students will be helping to select the books for library with guidance and with a budget. Please help us reach this goal through reading. Every book purchased at the on-site book fair and online book fair increases our profit to go towards our goal.

UCS Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is Coming!

At School Book Fair Dates:  Sept. 21-25

Open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday night, and Friday

Evening Book Fair Event: Thursday, Sept. 24 7:00-7:30

(come to the UCS Curriculum Night and shop the book fair)

Online Book Fair Dates:  Sept. 19-Oct. 2

The online book fair has a larger selection of books than what will be at the school fair. Books purchased at the online fair will ship for free to the school 24-48 hours after the online fair ends on October 2nd.

Our goal is to raise money to buy high interest books for our library’s collection.  Third and fourth grade students will be helping to select the books for library with guidance and with a budget.  Please help us reach this goal through reading.  Every book purchased at the on-site book fair and online book fair increases our profit to go towards our goal

For more information on the on-site book fair, online book fair, dates, and times, please visit the school library web page and click on the book fair image you see below to go to the UCS Scholastic Book Fair web page.

Contact Mr. Baron at:

chris.baron@cesuvt.org or at school on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Kindergarteners squeezing every minute out of library

During a kindergarten class yesterday I read the Red Clover nominee, Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great (which had the kids cracking up).  Afterwards I helped kindergarteners find the books they wanted to bring home.  I'm always interested in what they want...because they usually know what they want and it is a great way to get to know their personal interests.  Very rarely do I hear a student say, "I don't know what to pick out." They love to learn.  They love to read.  We always say, "They're like sponges."  It's true.

There was a moment today after helping them find their books where I stopped and looked around and the following images show what I saw.  It was a perfect moment.

Look how these kindergarteners use their time in the library.

 Sitting in the story chair reading (or showing) a book to an audience 

 Reading with a friend on the couch

 Finding a quiet space to read alone

 Looking for books on the library catalog with the library's Chromebooks

Listening to an audio book at the library's listening center

2015 Family Adventures in Reading

2015 Family Adventures in Reading

Please join us for a reading adventure!!

Underhill ID Family Adventures in Reading sign up

Underhill Central Family Adventures in Reading sign up

The Red Clover Award 2014-2015

The Red Clover award program is Vermont’s children’s choice picture book award.  Every year ten outstanding picture books are selected by a committee of teachers and librarians as the year’s Red Clover nominees.  All of the selected nominees were written the previous year.  Students in grades K-4 all around the state of Vermont listen to the ten nominees and then vote on their favorite in late March/early April.  The winner of this year's Red Clover Award will be announced in May.

This year’s nominees feature fantastic authors and illustrators.  There are fiction and nonfiction selections.  There is an excellent Red Clover web site that features activities and web sites related to the books. I highly recommend visiting this site with your child to see the books that we’ve been reading as well as allowing them to dive deeper into the books by accessing related content.  

UID library web page

UCS library web page

Red Clover web page

The best way to access this site is to navigate via the library web page on our school’s web site.  Click on the Red Clover icon and it will take you to the Red Clover site with all of the books listed on the left hand side.

Have fun!

Mr. Baron

UID/UCS Library Media Specialist