Lego Club

The first meeting of the 14/15 Lego Building Buddies Club was held this morning in the Media Center. THANK YOU to our wonderful PTA for purchasing some great new Legos! We had so much fun this morning that I barely got a chance to take pictures! I will continue to add pics to this album throughout the year.

The Magic of Poe (and Chad Crews!)

Mr. Crews once again amazed us with his magic! Fourth and fifth graders enjoyed "The Authors of Mystery and Horror" show today. They were introduced to some classics - Dracula, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Houdini and of course, Edgar Allan Poe.

Authors of Mystery & Horror

Chad Crews will be returning to Brookwood on Monday, September 22nd to present his "Authors of Horror & Mystery"show for our 4th and 5th graders. Book orders may be turned in until September 23rd (the day after the show). Students wishing to receive autographs, however, should get their orders to Mrs. Wagner BEFORE the show.

THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who came and shopped at our awesome book fair! And a HUGE thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers!!! We would not have such a wonderful book fair if it wasn't for our super parents (and grandparents) who are so generous with their time! A very special thank you to Ginny Carson for all of her hard work to organize volunteers and for the time and energy she puts into working at the book fairs, too. Pictures of our book fair and students who won prizes (yes, the all agreed to pose for my silly pictures!) have been added to the book fair slide show - just scroll down the page a little to see it. I do regret that I didn't get any pictures during Ballyhoo while the book fair was packed with shoppers - just too busy helping out to think about take pictures!


If you didn't make it to the book fair or if you would just still like to shop (there is no such thing as having too many books!), you can still order books from our online book fair. It will be open until midnight on September 24th. The books you order online will be shipped to school within a few days of the online fair closing. Visit the Book Fair Link on the right hand side of the page or click HERE to go directly to our virtual bookfair.

Fall Newsletter Available

The Media Center Newsletter will be sent home with students this week, but you may also access it HERE.

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!