LaGrange Elementary--Student Library Pages

New Books on Our Shelves

• Shoeless Joe and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. Dan Gutman. 2002.
• Elmer. David McKee. 1989.
• Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids. Gail Gibbons.2002
• The Werewolf Club meets Oliver Twit. Jill Pinkwater.2002
• America: A Patriotic Primer. Lynne Cheney. 2002
• The Sky's the Limit: Stories of Discovery by Women and Girls. Catherine Thimmesh. 2002.

Announcements & Events

• Check my monthly message about Library Happenings on the Homework Hotline- #939

• September is Library Card Sign-Up Month. If you don't have a library card, ask a parent to take you to the library to get one! It's FREE!

• Mid-Hudson Library System Online Entrance – see below for information on home access to databases and homework help

Visit Your Local Library

Hopefully, you have your own library card for either the LaGrange Association Library (452-3141) or the East Fishkill Community Library (221-9943). Library cards can be used at any library in the Mid-Hudson Library System but must be obtained at the library in YOUR town.

Public libraries are a great resource not only for books, but also for DVDs, videotapes, books on tape, magazines and much more! While you are visiting the Public Library practice your skill in locating books. Find the fiction books for your age, the animal books, or look for books by your favorite author.

Home Access to the Public Library

If you have a Public Library Card, you can access the many resources of the Public Library online. Go to http://midhudson.org/alpha.html and click on the link to your home library. From there you can access anything offered by that library. You can even check out other libraries in our area.

Mid-Hudson Library System Online Entrance

http://www.midhudson.org/lifelines/ is a website with homework resources selected for parents and librarians to help students in grades K-12. The site is divided into two sections: one for K-4 subject areas (http://www.midhudson.org/lifelines/lifelines1/default.htm) and the other for grades 5-12 curriculum areas (http://www.midhudson.org/lifelines/lifelines2/default.htm).

School and public librarians and teachers identified the subject areas as being the ones most widely taught in New York State. Within each area there are links to magazine, newspaper and encyclopedia articles, related websites and local history, where applicable. All the articles and websites are age-appropriate, either for younger children or those in the upper grades.

In addition, the public libraries serving our school district now have a new online catalog, located at http://gigcat.midhudson.org/ where anyone with a library card for the Mid-Hudson Library System can search for and order books to be delivered to the local library of their choice.

What Mrs. Hauptmann is Reading

A Single Shard.. Linda Sue Park. 2001.
This book won the 2002 Newbery Medal. It is about Tree-ear, an orphan in Korea during the twelfth century. Tree-ear lives with Crane-man, an wise but homeless man, under a bridge. The town they live in is a potter's village, and Tree-ear find himself drawn to the beautiful pottery produced there. He becomes an assistant to the most talented and short-tempered artist in the village. Even so, life as an orphan is not easy and Tree-ear finds he needs all he has learned of honor, love, courage and determination to make a future for himself.

Shoeless Joe and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. Dan Gutman. 2002.
Joe Stoschack is able to travel back in time through baseball cards and this time he is going back to the time of Shoeless Joe Jackson (1919). He wants to warn Joe about a scandal that will ruin his baseball career, the infamous Black Sox Scandal. Can he get there in time and will he be able to change the course of events? Read it and see!

Great Web Sites

KidsClick! – Web Search for Kids by Librarians:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
This site lets you search on a variety of topics for reports and homework help and it's kid safe.

The Discovery Channel: http://school.discovery.com/students/index.html
This site has all kinds of links to other sites for kids, homework help, interesting information, clip art, games and even interesting TV programs!

Yahooligans! –The Web guide for Kids: http://www.yahooligans.com
Another great web search for kids. Lots of access to information for kids and games and activities, too!

Yak's Corner: http://www.yakscorner.com
This is a kids newsletter magazine filled with interesting things to read about and even some crafts... check it out!

Mid-Hudson Library Systems Lifelines: http://www.midhudson.org/lifelines
Links to web sites divided by curriculum areas for grades K-4. If you have an assignment about Biographies, North American Indians, New York State History, Simple Machines and many others, this is the place to look for web sites.

Wish List

Do you have a birthday coming up? Would you like to recognize a special person or event? You can participate in our Add-a-Book Program. Using the Wish List at Amazon.com, you can choose a book to give to the Library. You can purchase the book from anywhere you like. (I like going to a bookstore and personally seeing and feeling the books.) When you find one you like, purchase it, (hardcover, please!) and bring it to Mrs. Hauptmann. I will put a bookplate inside the book with your name and the special event or person you are honoring. You or the honoree may be the first to check it out!

If you need ideas, come and see me. I always have a list of things we need!

Write a Book Review

Have you read a book you think a friend would enjoy? Would you like to write a book review to add to our WebPages? You can! First, read the criteria (the rules) and the page about how to write a book review. Then, look at the book review form. Fill it in completely, edit your work and click the "submit" (send) button!  

Meet Mrs. Hauptmann

I have been the librarian at LaGrange Elementary for five years. Before that I did a lot of substituting in the school, so I already knew most of the children when I started.

My family includes Mr. Hauptmann and my two sons Erich and Evan, both of whom went to LaGrange Elementary School. Mr. Hauptmann works for HCL Technologies in White Plains, Erich is going to Dutchess Community College and Evan is a senior at Arlington High School. We live right in the town of LaGrange and I often see kids from our school knocking on my door for Halloween!

Our whole family likes to read. Mr. Hauptmann and I both read the newspaper everyday and we get several magazines about travel, photography, biography, and news magazines such as TIME. I always read a magazine when I am on the treadmill at the gym!

Erich reads all the time!. He especially loves fantasy and books with dragons in them. He still likes to read the Redwall books by Brian Jacques and gets each new one that comes out. Evan has to read a lot for school, so he read magazines in his spare time. He likes ESPN and other magazines about sports.

I love to read lots of different things. I read many children's books as part of my job, but sometimes I like to read adult things. Right now I am reading The Right Words at the Right Time by Marlo Thomas (an adult book).

Besides reading, our family likes to travel. I use the computer a lot to find out information about the places we are going. Right now our boys are looking into colleges so I am using the computer almost every day researching the schools and travel information so we can go and see those colleges.

I love reading and researching. I think I found the right job because those two things are a very important part of what I do. I also love working with children. What could be better than being a children's librarian in a school?