Pasadena Star-News and the L.A. Times online editions are available at home or at school, every day, free, for AV students, grades 3-5. Read the L.A.Times and the Pasadena Star News on your home or school computer. Get the password from your teacher or the AV Library. Then go to the website and press GO! to find out what is happening all over the world. Check with Mrs. Moore if you need help.
New Officers for Ink Drinkers Book Club '10-'11: (Left to right) Sergeant of Arms Mary, Secretary Emily, President Will, Vice President Grace, and Sergeant of Arms Matthew were elected by clubmembers at the first book club meeting and have been been presiding successfully at every meeting. Click here for more about the Ink Drinkers' Book Club.
Now it is time to vote. All of the above books have been read and discussed in all grades at the Library. This year's AV Winner will be announced in April 1. The South Pasadena Winner will be announced about April 5, California State Winner will be announced near the end of April. Don't forget to vote in your classroom.

Parent Volunteers Needed for Each Class
One library helper comes in with his or her students' class and helps check and shelve books--about 30 minutes. Call AV Library at (626) 441-5790, ext. 4930. We can't do this without you. Thank you.
Season's Readings!: Principal Noyes got us all in the holiday spirit with his reading for students and families at the Holiday Concert on the Green (actually, Auditorium In The Rain) at AV.
AV Library Reading Olympics rewards our great readers! Gold, silver and bronze medal winners were awarded at each grade level for their amazing reading accomplishments during one short week. Several students were able to include over 1,000 pages into their reading marathon.
AV Library has over 24,000 books to grow your brain Arroyo Vista Library, thanks to a PTA that believes in reading, has carefully put together one of the finest collections of fiction, nonfiction and children's books available in Southern California.

Here students learn about reading for fun, for knowledge, and for researching classroom subjects and reports. He and she will also learn how libraries are organized and how the world's knowledge is available to them.

They will use a fully computerized catalog to locate their favorite subjects and authors. They will check out books every week. And, they will get a taste of the many kinds of stories, biographies, poetry, and songs thet authors have created in our literature.

Reading can be fun. And good readers do well in the world.
Russ Woody, award-winning author of The Wheel of Nuldoid, is mobbed by AV students (for autographs) after his talk to the The Ink Drinkers Book Club after school. He spoke about his experiences in writing for television (St. Elsewhere, Parenthood, Murphy Brown and many others) and getting work published, as well as his art and sculpture--he brought a life-size sculpture of a Nuldoid and a pocketful of crystals for students.
BOOK FAIR ADVENTURES
Choosing the right book is so-o-o-o important. AV's Leslie Brill reads an award-winning book to AV families while Moms, Dads, and students shop for knowledge, fun, and adventure at the AV Book Fair.
Here are several highly regarded reading lists you can consult. We have many of these books in our library:

The State of California Recommended Reading List provides grade-specific lists for California students from kindergarten to 12th grade--
www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/readinglist.asp

The Caldecott Medal winners--www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html

The Newbery Medal winners--www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

The Coretta Scott King Award winners--www.ala.org/ala/emiert/
corettascottkingbookawards

American Library Association Young Readers Book Lists---
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/
booklists

Scholastic Books-www.scholastic.com/kids--books (mainly from Scholastic, of course) for children 6 to 13. Activities, contests and games related to such page-turners as Goosebumps.
It's time to meet your family again when SoPas holds Turn Off the TV Week in April.
Arroyo Vista families will be spending a lot of quality time together--all of it , in fact, during Turn Off the TV Week coming in April. No TV-watching, video,.computer or electronic games will be allowed as we play, talk, sing, read, walk, run and actually do things together. It's fun!

At Arroyo Vista, students and their families come to the Courtyard in their pajamas--or not--for a fun-filled Pajama Story Hour under the stars.

Stock up on good books for the week. Remember, it's good to read to friends, parents, and pets, too.
Arroyo Vista graduate and Ink Drinker Club member McKay Hatch talks to Jay Leno on the Tonight Show about his new book, The No Cussing Club
He made news all over the country when he started his "No Cussing Club" at South Pasadena High School. He appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, The Early Show and Good Morning America. Now he's written and published a book about his experience. It's quite a story.
"When I told my dad I was thinking of starting a No Cussing Club, he stopped right in the middle of what he was doing and stared at me.
"Are you crazy?" he said." but McKay did not give up.
He spoke to the Ink Drinkers' Book Club (where he was a book club member) on March 6. McKay presented an autographed copy of his new book to the Ink Drinkers for the AV Library. More on Ink Drinker's Club page.
Students and Volunteers Get Community Service Hours helping at the Arroyo Vista Library
If you like working in the library, call or come in and help us keep going. Over 1/4 of our books check out every month and then check back in. They have to be checked, shelved, and sometimes, repaired. It's fun, and you can get lots of community-service hours.
Encourage your child to learn to read by reading to them. Here are a few tips on how to be a good storyteller--click here.