Bilingual School Library Contest Poll

¡No navegues sin un libro!
We had a blast celebrating Día de los niños/Día de los libros. We read our favorite books, invited parents to read in English and Spanish and created our poster for this contest. The second graders told me they really want to win this contest because it would help them explore the world, know more about famous people and help them to get smarter and be more prepared for 3rd grade. As I talked with the second and third grade teams, a common need is for more Spanish books in the classroom. It would mean the WORLD to us (we would feel so proud to share these books with our students) to have Spanish and bilingual books in our classrooms for the students to share.

Los Angeles, CA (Dual Language Program – Spanish/English- 50-50)
Grade: 2nd
Teacher: Señora Vega and Ms. Tomback

¡Los Niños Necesitan Libros! We Love Books!
Our Dual Language classrooms need books. We would love to win this contest because books have a lot of information and we can learn lots of things from them. If we won new books that we haven’t read yet, we would choose to read them, instead of watching TV. We would become better readers because we would have more books to read. We would be very happy to have new books at our school.

We are students in a new dual language immersion program (Spanish-English) and we would like to have books in Spanish in our library. We are excited to learn to speak Spanish but need books in Spanish to learn to read better. We are proud that in two years we have learned lots of Spanish. We need exciting and diverse books in Spanish to learn more. ¡Leer es Poder!

Why Our School Should Win This Contest
There are 480 children from different cultures who are in our school which has a Spanish /English Dual Immersion Program. To be good readers in English and Spanish we need to read books in both languages. When we do so we are also able to write, speak, and think in both languages. This makes us smarter. Although we have a lot of books in our school library, we do not have enough books in Spanish or bilingual books to be able to have book clubs in Spanish just like in English. We’re already dreaming of the books that we’ll receive when we win this contest!

We need Spanish books because there are no Spanish books in our library. We have students that don’t speak English at all, so these books will give them something to read. And, bilingual books will help us learn Spanish outside of Spanish class. Mrs. C, our Spanish teacher, will be happy that everyone is learning. A Spanish book collection will help us to discover the wonders and mysteries of Spanish and will change our school forever!

I want more books in Spanish for our library because some kids only speak Spanish. We want to learn and speak Spanish. We need more books in Spanish because they will helps us learn Spanish and because they are lots of fun. We learn in two languages, English and Spanish, but there are a lot of English books in our library. There are not enough books in Spanish for all the kids.

Union is a small rural school where just about everyone knows each other; however, we recently had new students move in that only speak Spanish. This year our second grade class has taken a huge interest in helping a student learn English, and they are also excited about learning Spanish. We have a brand new Spanish Language program as a result. The class thinks Spanish books that our teacher brings in from home are fun to read and realizes how important it is to learn about other countries and cultures. Winning the Spanish-language and bilingual books would mean we can better include new Spanish-speaking students in everything we do, making them feel a part of the class and not an outsider.