Welcome to May!!
May 8th Pizza and Pages: 2:45-4:00 pm in the LRC. The last Pizza and Pages of the year features Hunger Games. Come for the Cornucopia Challenge, Trivia event and movie vs. book discussion. Register in advance by signing up in the LRC now.
Welcome to March. During this month you’ll find 6th grade social studies classes working on their CBA’s in the library and technology lab. Remember students can access the databases directly on this blog for their research. Look under Pages–and then click on Databases.
March 13th 2:45 – 4:00pm Pizza and Pages. It’s time for the annual comic book discussion. Bring your favorite comic series: Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, etc. to share and discuss.
Special Guest, Seth Campos, author of Real Bears Eat Takeout and Welcome to Beeky Airlines, will share what it is like to be a teenaged published author and comic strip creator.
Come for great books and tasty pizza. Don’t forget to register in the LRC by March 12th for this very cool event!
Visit Common Sense Media to read movie, book, apps and game reviews so you can make informed decisions for you and your family! Click on the Common Sense Media link above.
March 15th Open Mic in the LRC during all three lunches! Come and join us for math jokes, raps,and songs. We still need more presenters 1st and 2nd lunch times. See Mrs. Timson.
February 14th Pizza and Pages . Sign up now in the LRC! Before she wrote The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins wrote Gregor the Overlander. Join us to talk about this exciting adventure and nosh on tasty pizza from Blake’s.
February 23 Open Mic . Sign up in the LRC now to perform at our next event. Where are you Poet Boys?
8th Grade Classroom – Based Assessments (CBA’s) are underway!! Please use the CBA link and Databases link on the LRC web log to help you research your topic and develop your position.
Happy New Year!
Two important dates to remember:
January 10 Pizza and Pages. One of the strangest books you’ll ever read (and watch!) is Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek: to read it you have to have a computer with an internet connection!! Come prepared to discuss the mystery and nosh on tasty pizza from Blake’s. (Don’t forget to register at least one day in advance by signing up in the LRC now for this event!!)
January 19th Open Mic. Sign up now in the LRC for our next Open Mic. We are looking for students who want to share poetry, short stories, book talk favorite books or tell your favorite jokes! You can play band instruments, keyboards, or perform your own musical group/band. Sign up now in the LRC!!
NEW in the LRC! We have a new web-based library computer system called Destiny. Stay tuned for more details about accessing TMS resources online!
January Projects in the LRC: This month the library is busying collaborating with classroom teachers on e-projects including teaching others about safety tips for a variety of topics and visually representing and communicating book themes in an graphic format. Students will be adding music and voice recording to some of them as well. In addition, some classes will be creating digital book trailers. All projects should be available for online viewing later in the month.
8th graders will begin researching many constitutional issues for their Classroom-Based Assessment (CBA) beginning later this month. Students will need to use our online Databases, online CBA Resources and Citation Tools for their research.
I will be teaching Mrs. Daniel’s 6th graders to make books. Her students will be making parts of speech books this month, too!
Tuesday November 9th Pizza and Pages 2:50-4:00
Scholastic Book Fair Click here for all the information!
Welcome to the LRC. All students should have a math book checked out for the year that remains at home.