Garfield Elementary - Olympia, WA

Join us for our BOOKFAIR next week! We are still looking for volunteers! Sign up here: https://volunteersignup.org/CKH49

We hope you have gotten some rest over the last few weeks - and we can't wait to see you tomorrow, Wednesday, January 3, 2024!

Meanwhile, check out our top library books from 2023:

Bookfair is HERE! Our FULL bookfair will be open during our PTA's Trunk or Treat Fall Fling event! WOW! Want to see what's in the fair now? Check out this episode of Bookfair with Beattie!

Fall 2023 Bookfair with Beattie! Preview our Bookfair, see what's on the shelves and tables before anyone else!

Hi! It’s been awhile! Who knew being split between library and reading teacher would make you so incredibly busy🤪 But, bookfair is happening next week and we’re all set up to bring book joy to the kids and community of Garfield!

Look at our Teacher Readers! Today we had our first in service day and we spent about 35 minutes discussing our staff summer common read: The Benefits of Being an Octopus by ! We participated in fishbowl style Socratic seminars and discussed the book, characters, themes, connections, and animals. It was fantastic! The outside circle used to silently participate as they listened.

Here she is! Ellie an Gigi are up starfishing in the hallway to ring in the new year. Thankyou to who first made me aware of this book ages ago now, and Thankyou to for a book that I will love forever and tell everyone about. (Also for using the name Anaïs because that was one of my student’s names and it made her day).

If you all haven’t read Starfish yet, drop everything and do it now. We are hallway ready for back to school, not classroom ready, but hallway ready.

I’m on my last day of vacation in Kauai, and I’ve been driving past this library sign all week. Today, we stopped by just as the library was closing for lunch, but the librarian David came out and let us in. This library serves as a public and school library! It’s funded by income tax, not property taxes. This is the first library in Kauai! It’s located in Koloa, just outside of Poi’pu. I saw some fun new titles that I’ll need to pick up for school - and some favorites including one of ’s books! The librarian said: I love when great books are also so simple💛 and then carried My Heart away to read on his lunch. We also chatted about how the PNW is an amazing place for kid lit. David is retiring Sept. 1, so if you’re in Koloa before then wish him a happy retirement - or ask how you can apply to be the librarian! They don’t have a replacement yet.

Don’t forget about summer reading programs in our area! We just picked up this kid’s free book after completing summer reading program! Every kid at Garfield was sent home a copy of their form as well as the TRL form! Finish both programs and you get two free books!