We look forward to seeing all of our students in the library.
All K-4 classes visit the library once each week to learn how to use the
library, to be introduced to the best in children's literature, and to check
out books.
See the Jewish Book Month Bookmark Contest page for the announcement of this
year's winners.
Six Flags Read to Succeed
Our school is again participating in the Six Hour Reading Club, open to all
students in Kindergarten through sixth grades. To earn a free Great America
admission ticket, just record all recreational reading (you may read to your
child or they may do the reading on their own), make sure their reading
totals at least six hours, and sign the form. Your child should then drop
the form off in the library. The deadline is Tuesday, February 16th.
Unfortunately, Six Flags will not accept late submissions, so please bring
the forms in on time.
This is a great way to encourage reading with a very enticing reward. Any
questions? Please contact Mrs. Katzin at the school.
Skokie Public Library
We would like to thank the Skokie Public Library for treating our
Kindergarten, first and second grades to a puppet show last week. They
presented Doctor DeSoto by William Steig and Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young.
Our library is enhanced by the presentations of the Skokie Public Library,
and we are grateful for their continuing support of our school’s program.
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Jewish Book Month for 2009/5770 comes to a close with the beginning of
Hanukkah. The library has been busy with Jewish themed books read by Mrs.
Katzin to the Kindergarten through fourth grade classes during their regular
library class time, focusing on winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Award.
We have a Sydney Taylor Manuscript Competition winner in the Hillel Torah
family. Faye Silton, grandmother of Yakira and Dina Robinson, wrote Of
Heroes, Hooks, and Heirlooms, published by the Jewish Publication Society in
1997. It tells the story of twelve-year-old Mia, the daughter of Holocaust
survivors, who must share a family heirloom for her class Heritage Project.
Mia learns to crochet so she can make a lace collar like the one her
grandmother is wearing in the family's only surviving photograph.
On Wednesday, December 2nd, we hosted a VOYA booktalk program from the Skokie
Public Library for our third and fourth grade students. The students were
excited to receive illustrated cards that described the featured books.
Welcome to new members of the Birthday Book Club: Tami Schneiderman, Shiri
Kolom, Amitai Kolom, and Tehilah David.
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Here are the newest members of the Birthday Book Club: Meira Linzer, Hersch
Linzer, Shana Rosenberg, and Yaakov Rosenberg.
Thank you to the Otani family for their book donation.
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Birthday Book Club
Celebrate your child's upcoming birthday by donating a book to the Hillel
Torah Library in his or her honor! Present and future students will benefit
by your contribution as well as enable the school to purchase superior
literature and resource materials for all grades.
For information regarding library donations, please contact Rachel
Blumenthal, 847-674-4950. Please mail your check to Judy Mendelsberg,
8955 N. Crawford, Skokie, Il 60076.