Year One visit Hilldene Library

Year One Visit Hilldene Library

Today we returned to Hilldene Library to change our library books. The children were very excited to revisit the library, as the library has such a fantastic range of books. We discussed the books that we had been reading over the last few weeks and then the children spent some time looking at the children's section, before finally selecting their new book. They then scanned the book through the machine themselves- which they really enjoyed.

        

We arrived back at school just before the end of the day, which allowed the children to sit in the sunshine and enjoy their new books!

           

Here are five good reasons to take your children to the library today:

• Regular library visits inevitably lead to more reading. Research shows that reading actually aids in brain development, especially in your child’s first five years of life. When kids are read to, their brain cells are literally turned on, and existing links among brain cells are strengthened and new cell links are formed.
  Reading is also one of the best activities to provide the foundational language and literacy skills your child needs to succeed. And let’s not forget how reading aloud connects us — reader and listener — in a very intimate way. When we read to aloud to kids, we send them this message: You are important. This time is for you.
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• When you visit the library, you can expose your children to more books and magazines than you can afford to buy.
  At the library, you can haul out as much as you can carry, turn your books back in as soon as they’re read, and take home a whole new pile.
  


• Your local children’s librarian can recommend books that you may not know of or think to suggest, broadening their tastes and expanding their minds and vocabularies.
  


• Library time is active, not passive.
  Today’s youngest library patrons engage — with books and magazines, with librarians, and with other children. Most libraries offer regular children’s programs that make stories come to life.

• Owning a library card teaches kids responsibility.
  As card-carrying library patrons, young children learn about treating with care things that belong to others. When a child checks out books in his own name, they feels trustworthy, responsible and like a member of his community. A child’s first library card is an early rite of passage.