The Book Fair is Open!

Our first book of the school year opened this morning. It will be here at Brookwood until NOON on Thursday, September 11th. We will be open during Ballyhoo until 7:00 pm. Stop in and check out all the great books! If you can't stop in, or would like an even bigger selection,you can visit our VIRTUAL bookfair. It will be open until September 24th. Once the virtual fair closes, the books will be shipped directly to the school and given to your student. This is a great way for family and friends who do not live in the area to help support our students and our media center. Money raised at our book fairs allows us to have two author visits a year and helps to purchase books and supplies for our library.

We are busy!

We have been busy in the library! We are collecting data about reading habits, library use, etc. from 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades and will be analyzing it soon.

Summer Reading Celebration 2014

I am so very proud of our students! We had 95 students eligible for our Summer Reading Celebration Party. To attend the party, students must turn in a list of the books they read over the summer and/or have a parent send a summer reading picture for our blog. (See below.) Students who did both, received an extra hard cover book of their choice as a special reward. Students were excited that they were allowed to choose all of their own prizes! A good time was had by all!

We are back!

It's so nice to see everyone again! Don't forget to turn in your summer reading lists by Friday, August 15th. Our Summer Reading Celebration will be on Thursday, August 21st at 2:35.

Summer Reading

Please share your summer reading pictures by emailing them to Mrs. Wagner. We love to see our students and staff reading. And it is so much fun to see where everyone is, too!

Don't forget to fill out your summer reading log, too! (If you can't find the paper, it's okay - just make your own list - write the name of the books and the date you finished reading each one. Don't forget to put YOUR name on the top and then add your teacher's name for the 2014/2015 year before you turn it into the Media Center.)

REMEMBER - You can read ebooks by clicking the link on the right hand side of this page!

Advice for Next Year

Before leaving for the year, our fifth graders have left some advice for next year's 5th graders on our virtual corkboard.

Click and drag on the screen (and zoom in and out) to read all the posts.

https://noteapp.com/h3kWuPWkEY

"Blowing Up" the Librarian

So, I'm working in my office this afternoon and I hear some 5th graders say, "Let's blow up the librarian." Now, some people, upon hearing this may have shut and locked their door, but I came out to see what was going on! Raising up the librarian might be a better description - but it does involve blowing up ziploc bags with straws. If you want to try this, you can get directions by clicking on the link: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/airlift.html

Ready for Summer Reading E-Reading!

With so many of our students having their own devices, we have been practicing how to access electronic (e-books)for the summer. Students who have brought their devices to the Media Center for class have also learned how to add the Media Wiki to their home screen for easy access this summer.

What a Wonderful Day!

We had such a wonderful day with author, Lola Schaefer today! She graciously hosted five sessions in the Media Center and this allowed us to have smaller groups than usual. Each presentation was perfectly suited for the grade levels present and I have to tell you, I loved every one! (How lucky am I to get to be there for all of them?) Mrs. Schaefer shared "the rest of the story" about her book Arrowhawk, led classes in echo reading Loose Tooth, listened to students tell what they like and don't like about writing, gave us insight into the process of writing a book, shared several other books with classes, helped students understand the research necessary for narrative non-fiction and so MUCH MORE!

To see the our virtual corkboard with comments from 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders about the program, please click HERE.

We are so excited!

We have had such a BUSY week - Field Days on Monday and Tuesday - the BOGO Book Fair which started yesterday and ends tomorrow and tomorrow is our author visit and STEM Day. Brookwood has LOTS of activities planned for the day.
In the Media Center, we are so excited and pleased to be hosting author, Lola M. Schaefer! We have been sharing her books for the last few weeks and so many of them are STEM related! Be sure and check back soon for photos from the visit!