The Return of the Blog, and a photo

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Things have been ever busy here at Gracepoint Berkeley church, so it’s been awhile since I’ve posted. After an initial set of posts, you might have thought I forgot about this here blog. Anyone in the blogosphere will tell you that consistency is one of the keys to building a readership, so I’ve got a lot of building to do!

Since today is Wednesday, here’s a wordless celebration of reading for you!

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Some leisure reading time during babysitting. These two (daughters of educators!) are proof you’re never too young to discover the joy of reading.

Next week, I’ll be visiting Gracepoint Irvine church to help with their Fall Welcome Week*, so I will try my best to schedule some posts ahead of time so I don’t go MIA again!

 

*This does mean Bibliopolis will be closed during 9/21-9/25.

Online Bibliopolis Schedule & Library Patron Agreements

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A quick post to update all of you on a couple resources you can find on this site:

#1 — I’ve added a page called Bibliopolis Fall 2015 Hours. And you guessed it, you can find the Bibliopolis schedule for Fall 2015 there. You can find it at the top next to the About tab.

#2 — Next to that tab, you can find the Library Patron Agreements. It’s a bit of a misnomer, since I made them up, and everyone else is simply forced to agree with them! But it sounds friendlier than “rules.” It’s really the basic stuff like be safe and nice while in the library. But an important thing to note is that patrons may check out up to 3 books at a time for up to 3 weeks. After the 3-week due date passes, there is a $0.05 a day overdue fine. It’s a truly negligible fine, but its purpose is to teach the kids to be responsible and accountable for the books. (If we were to collect any sort of sum of money, it would be used to purchase books for the library.)

 

Reading With and Reading To

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In the blogosphere, there’s a thing called Wordless Wednesday. On these days, I shall feature a reading-related photo for you all.

This also gives me a bit of a reprieve since we are in Welcome Night World at Gracepoint Berkeley church and throughout our Gracepoint Ministries! (The smart-alecky students out there have your hands raised, waiting to be called on: “Ms. Kim, you’ve actually included 99 words in this post.” 100, actually.)

Kids build confidence as they read to others. (book: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo)

One way kids build confidence is as they read to others. Here’s a 4th grader reading to a 1st grader. (book: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo)