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Scholastic
Bookfair
The big week is almost here! The Scholastic Bookfair is
coming to our library February 9
- 12, and each class will be visiting the library during school to make
their purchases. This is our big fund-raiser for the year, so
your support is appreciated.
Family
Reading Night is Feb. 10. We'll have reading in
every classroom, and a laser light show to end the night.
Registration is now closed.
Here's the schedule
of the reading events.
Keep
Collecting
Boxtops!
Please
send in your boxtops; we sent our first mailing in October, and the
next is coming soon.
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.
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Arrivals |
The following
books have just arrived
for
your enjoyment:
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 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 . .
Snowflake
Bentley's Snowflake Images
Take
a look at this great collection of images from Bentley himself.
Winter
Olympics
Through the Years
Nice overview of past olympic games.
Crayola
Digi-Color (http://www.crayola.com/coloring_application/)
Create your own work of art online with markers, crayons, or
pencil.
What
Happened at the first Thanksgiving?
Try your hand at this great webquest.
Virtual
Pumpkin Cutting: This is great! If you like cutting
snowflakes, try this!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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.
Mr.
Picasso Head (http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html)
Create your own artwork online. Really fun!
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.
Seussville
(http://www.seussville.com//main.php?section=home&isbn=&catalogID=&eventID=)
Have a great time at this Seuss site, full of information and fun and
games.
 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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The following students have donated
great new books to our library this month:
Hal C.
Anne W.
Joseph W.
Alex C.
Connor B.
Three cheers for you!
Looking for donation
suggestions? Check out the library
wishlist, or look at the recent winners of the Newbery
and Caldecott Awards.
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Most
Popular Books in February |
Diary of
a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
An Undone Fairytale
The
Lightning Thief
Maximum Ride series
39 Clues
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