St.
Mary Magdalen School, 9 Sharpley Rd., Wilmington, DE
Philosophy: The mission of the St. Mary Magdalen
Library Media Center is encourage a lifelong love of reading, to
enhance and extend classroom learning through the utilization of varied
resources, and to prepare students for lifetime use of libraries and
information sources.
Research Tools
Web 2.0 Tools
Librarian: Mrs. Lauren M. Bott Hours
: 7:30 to 3:15 Monday through Friday
Students
must be accompanied by parent after school hours
To learn more about the library, click here .
Seuss Contest Congratulations to all the students in grades 2 and 3 who
took part in the Dr. Seuss contest. The 3
winners with the most answers correct in each grade will received a
Seuss stuffed animal. The winners are: 2nd Grade: Patrick S.,
Daniel C., Finbar L, Gina R.
3rd Grade: Avery L., Tessa C., Alyssa H.
Keep
Collecting
Boxtops! Last call for boxtops! We sent
our first mailing in October, and the
next is coming this week.
Remember, each one
is worth ten cents for the library. Your participation would be
appreciated.
You
may also want
to take a look at the Boxtops for
Education website.
If you shop at any major retailer online by going through boxtops, the
school
library will receive a percentage of the sale. Click here to
browse the list of vendors. 7th
and 8th Grade Expectations Library
is graded on an A,B,C scale. It is
expected that assignments be
complete and turned in by their date. Late assignments will lose
five points each day. Once an assignment is five days late, it
will no longer be accepted, and the student will receive a zero for
the assignment.
For more expecations, click
here. Birthday
Book Club To help
our collection grow, we
have established a birthday book club. To celebrate a student's
birthday , you may choose to donate a book to the library in his/her
name. A bookplate will be placed inside the book with the
student's name and year, and his/her name will be posted on the library
webpage, as well as the weekly newsletter. Suggestions for donations
can be found on the library wishlist page through the link in the
navigation bar on the left. Thank you for
your generosity!
World Book Online Available at Home! You may now use World
Book Online at home. Just go to
www.worldbookonline.com and enter the user name and password you were
given at school. If you don't remember, contact Mrs. Bott, and
she can send them to you.
New
Arrivals
The following
books have just arrived
for
your enjoyment:
Shelfari: Book reviews on
your book
blog
And
many more! Stop in to check them out!
Birthday
Book Donations
The following students have donated
great new books to our library this month:
Ania Z. The Wierzbowski
Family The Kuntz Family
The White Family Hal
C. Anne W. Joseph W. Alex C. Connor B.
Looking for donation
suggestions? Check out the library
wishlist, or look at the recent winners of the Newbery
and Caldecott Awards.
SMM Website
of the Week
Each
week, I'll highlight a great website for you to try. These sites will
then be moved to our research or booklinks page for your use. This
week's link is . . NCAA Basketball Tournament
Brackets and team information
Seussville
Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!
Have a great time at this Seuss site, full of information and fun and
games. Curious George
From PBSkids, some great Curious George games and activities.
SMM Olympics
Page
Some great resources for the Winter Olympics from our library!
FFFBI
Home
Try the International Missions with this crazy group of animal
characters; sponsored by National Geographic.
Wild
West Phonics
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/phonics/fs.shtml)
From the BBC, this site has great cartoon graphics to enjoy while
learning phonics. Fun
School: Fall Fever
http://funschool.kaboose.com/preschool/games/game_fall_fever.html
Roald
Dahl's Page Have a great time with lots of info about
the author and his stories, and activities and games.
Stories Online
(http://storylineonline.net/)
Listen to stories read by members of the Screen Actors Guild.
Odosketch(http://sketch.odopod.com/)
Create great sketches with charcoal and chalk online. Have fun!
Wolfram/Alpha
(http://www.wolframalpha.com/)
The new information search engine, that concentrates on math, science,
and statistics.
Google News
Timeline (http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/)
Search for news and event information by date. Great presentation
in columns. Shel
Silverstein (http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html)
Take a look at the poet's site for great poetry animations and
activities. Search!o
(http://search.io/)
A great new metasearch engine that displays the results of 10 different
search engines in tabbed form. This will save you time!
Notebook Babies
(http://www.notebookbabies.com/)
Great collection of animation about classroom behavior.
Make a Flake
(http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/)
Digitally create snowflakes. You can save them to the website,
too! Awesome!
Delaware
Libraries (http://www.state.lib.de.us/Collection_Development/Electronic_Resources/DelAWARE/)
You must
have a valid Delaware library card to use the search tools and
databases, but it's well worth it.
Noodletools
(http://www.noodletools.com)
If you're having trouble with MLA form for your
bibliography, try this tool which creates your citations!
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