Oyster Campus - Ms. Kleinmann
Summer Reading
Our goal for students this summer is to continue reading, explore new books, and have fun doing it! We are providing the following as a suggestion to support your students:
- Read one Spanish-Language book and one English-Language book and complete a book report on each
- Read at least 20 minutes per day and fill out the book log to track your favorite books that you read.
- Visit a DC Public Library location and participate in their summer reading.
To support this, we are handing out Summer Reading Packets:
- Recommended book list
- Book Report Templates: download here for rising K and 1st or download here for rising 2nd through 4th
- Book log to record books read
If you have further questions, contact Ms. Kleinmann at [email protected]
Return library books
Please help your student remember to bring their books back to the library in preparation for the end of the school year. The last day to check out books is June 10, and students with overdue books will not be allowed to check out books during the month of June.
Oyster-Adams Virtual Bookstore
Discover a wide selection of books in Spanish, many of which are not usually found in the United States at the Oyster-Adams Virtual Bookstore in collaboration with Bookworm Central. There are book recommendation lists for each grade level. Each purchase helps raise funds for Oyster-Adams Bilingual programs. Thank you for supporting our school! The books will be shipped directly from the Bookworm warehouse to your address.
Visit it here: https://www.bookwormcentral.com/oysterbilingual
“Recomendaciones” Program in the Library
Did you know that our library has an extensive collection of non-translated books in Spanish from Latin America and Spain? Ms. Kleinmann’s program called Recomendaciones, gives 2nd and 3rd graders incentives to read these books. First, they select a book from the collection (picture books or chapter books), they read the whole book, and then they fill out a short book report including author, title, and a brief statement about their opinion of the book as well as a drawing of their favorite part. Once they have turned in their book reports, the kids receive points based on the quantity of text versus illustration. When they have earned three points, they pick a prize. The prizes are mini-notebooks, gel pens and bookmarks. The program has been very successful, especially when the kids share opinions about the books and trade them with each other. Ask your child if they have done a recomendación in the library. Hopefully the answer will be yes!
