Author Visit and Newbery Award Assembly
On Monday, May 6, the La Jolla Country Day School library hosted Brian Floca, the Caldecott award-winning author and illustrator of “Locomotive” and many other nonfiction picture books, including “Moonshot” (a Robert F. Sibert Honor book).
Floca also illustrates books for other authors, including Avi. Avi and Floca recently collaborated on “Old Wolf,” a novel for young readers. Floca presented and drew pictures at assemblies for students in kindergarten, first and second grades and was the guest presenter at our annual Newbery Readers’ Award assembly. Students learned how books are created and about trains and the Apollo missions through entertaining lessons from Floca.
For our Newbery program, Country Day students in Grades 4-6 read books that have received the Newbery Medal, an annual award for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Fourth grade students received personalized bookmarks for their efforts while fifth and sixth graders were honored with certificates, engraved medals, paperweights and trophies based on the number of books read.
Students in Grades 5-6 who read 15 or more Newbery titles:
Ford Boock
Joshua Choi
Natalie Daneshmand
Maggie Dinwiddie
Matthew Ferreira
Alejandro Grillo
Huck Martin
Mondo Nishiba
Drew Parker
Kellen Rooney.
Students in Grades 5-6 who read 30 or more Newbery titles:
Emily Bergan
Alyssa Bryant
Anna Corcoran
Spencer Heaton
Abigail Holman
Aubree Potter
Brandon Pyo
Ava Salami
Reagan Stein
Stella Stompoly
Tate Vaccaro
Bruno Wilensky
Students in Grades 5-6 who read more than 50 Newbery titles:
Sofia Cohen
Madeleine Goldman
Gabriella Herman
Anna Kim
Oliver Nizet
Emma Rudy
Shannon White
Students in Grades 5-6 who read 75 or more Newbery titles:
Katherine Alberga
Abigail Cason
Raina Ghouri
Catherine Gizzo
Nano Goldman
Sasha Grub
Athena Hernandez
Alina Kureshi
Jake Needle
Torin Royal
