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Holy Rosary Catholic School
F.X. and Mary Joerger Library
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Library Hours: 7:45 - 3:45
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Librarians: Mrs. Amy Sopchak, extension 121
Mrs. Wilma Stryk, Tues/Wed mornings
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Lost book replacement fees $15.00 for hardcover/$10.00 for softcover. End-of-school report cards will be held pending lost book fee payment.
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Click on "online resources" link on the main webpage, enter the "databases" area. Click on "language learning" link to enter the Mango Languages database. You will need the barcode # from your library card if using the program from home computer.
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Keep kids reading. Check out this website -
 Summer Reading Lists - 2010
Incoming PreK - 1st - Read aloud rhyming book, ABC books, counting books, look at illustrations and discuss, take turns reading pages.
Incoming 2nd graders - Frog and Toad, by Arnold Lobel
- Amelia Bedelia Under Construction, by Henry/Peggy Parish
- Henry and Mudge & the Big Sleepover, by Cynthia Rylant
- Read about a Saint as listed on the Summer Reading brochure
Incoming 3rd graders - Select 3 of the following books:
-Henry's Freedom Box, by Ellen Levine
-When is a Planet Not a Planet, by Elaine Scott
-Look at the Stars, by Buzz Aldrin
-First Food Fight This Fall & other Poems, by Marilyn Singer
-Eleanor, Quiet No More, by Doreen Rappaport
-Curse of the Ancient Mask & Other Case .., by Simon Cheshire
-Required - a biography of any saint
Incoming 4th graders -Mudshark, by Gary Paulson
-Stone Fox, by John Gardiner
-Gray Wolves Return to Yellowstone, by Meish Goldish
-a biography of any saint
Incoming 5th graders - Pick three of the following books:
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose
When you Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
Anything But Typical, by Nora Baskin
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland, by Sally Walker
Savvy, by Ingrid Law
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow, by Susan Bartoletti
REQUIRED: a biography of any saint
Incoming 6th graders -Miss Spitfire, by Sarah Miller
-Odysseus, by Geraldine McCaughrean
Select (1) from the following to read in addition to the 2 REQUIRED books above.
-London Eye Myster, by Siobhan Dowd
-Gods of Manhattan, by Scott Mebus
-Sixth Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me, by Lisa Papademetriou
Incoming 7th graders -Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
-Dark Water Rising, by Marion Hale
-Select any one of the Percy Jackson & the Olympan series
Incoming 8th graders -To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
-My Brother Sam is Dead, by James Collier
-7 Habits Highly, Effective Teens, by Sean Covey
ALL JR. HIGH (6,7,8) Select one Saint to read about from the following list:
Father Damien, St. Peter Claver, St. Jerome, St. Rose of Lima, St. Maximilian Kolbe, or St. Laurence
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 Book Fairs
May 11th - 14th in the Library/Media center
Volunteer to help at the on-site book fair. You can decorate, help with advertising, help set-up, assist students in writing their wish lists, give a book talk or help pack up. Contact Amy Sopchak ( asopchak@holyrosary-school.org) for more information.
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Websites
www.worldbookonline.com - The online World Book available to students for research projects from home. Go to website and enter username HOLYROSARY and password LIBRARY.
www.haisln.org - Houston Area Independent School Library Network gives you access to suggested reading for grades PreK-12th. Check out this website if you need recommendations for summer reading.
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www.arbookfind.com - check out this website to see if books from the public library or your personal library have AR quizzes.
Students in 2nd - 8th grade who have earned 100% of their accelerated reading points goal in a 9 week period will be invited to eat their lunch in the library, to share their opinions on books they have recently read, and just sit and visit. Students will bring their lunch and I will provide a treat. Usually held twice a year.
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 Accelerated Reading Program
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Renaissance Place Accelerated Reader Enterprise/STAR program. Students have access to over 120,000 quizzes including fiction, non-fiction, literacy skills quizzes, recorded voice quizzes, spanish quizzes and vocabulary quizzes.
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Accelerated Reading is a computerized reading comprehension program. Currently 2nd grade through 8th grade is using the program with 1st graders beginning after Christmas. Books in both libraries have color coded stickers that indicate reading level. After a student has read a book, they take a quiz. Each quiz has points assigned to it based on the reading level of the book. Students receive points for passing grades (partial or full credit depending on the grade made on the test). This is not mandatory but has become a competition between students to see who can get the most points. Individual AR point goals are set by their teacher at the beginning of each quarter. Students take tests in an effort to achieve their individual point goal per 9 weeks. Students are rewarded for achieving their goal.
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 Birthday Book Club
Celebrate your child's birthday by donating a book to the school library in their honor. Over 300 books have been donated to the HRCS school library this decade!!!!
When you donated $15.00 to the school library, your child can select a book to be donated to the library in their honor. Their name will be placed on a book plate that goes in the book and they will be the first ones to check out the book. You may also donate a book to the library in honor of someone's anniversary or in memory of someone. Hardcover books are appreciated.
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