BOGO Book Fair

Our BOGO (Buy One Get One Free) Book Fair is coming on May 6th. We will be open during field days on the 6th and 7th, so if you are coming to watch your student either of those day, don't forget to stop in and see us!  We will close at noon on Monday, May 11th.  This is a great way to stock up on summer reading material!  Click here for more info!

Evaluating Web Sites

Fifth grade students have been learning how to evaluate websites. We use the simple to remember "Who,What,When,Where and Why?" method.  Even though we have lessons on the Internet and digital citizenship on a regular basis, it always surprises them somewhat to find out that they can't always tell a real website from a hoax on their own. When they used the 5 W's though, they did a better job of finding reliable sites that they can trust.

Brookwood Bird Cam

Update: 4/23/15
Sadly, a predator attacked the nest today taking off with three eggs and damaging the fourth. We have moved the camera to a classroom that is raising some baby quails.

Update: 4/30/15  We are NOT currently broadcasting. But if you click HERE, you can still watch some of the videos we recorded of the robin's nest. Look to the right of the video screen for a link to the recordings.



Our bird cam is live!


Live streaming video by Ustream


You can also watch it by clicking here. (FYI - There will be occasional commercials which we have no control over.I recommend just turning off the sound as there is not any sound for the bird cam.)

Donations Needed for the LFL

The Brookwood Library is working with the United Way to keep the Little Free Library (LFL) in Lakeshore Park stocked with books. If you have any books that you would like to donate, please send them to Mrs. Wagner in the Media Center. We can use all kinds of books - adult, juvenile, fiction, or non-fiction. Please send a note with the books that they may be used for the LFL. Thank you!

Kindergarten E-book added

Miss Hendon's Kindergarten Class has written an ebook and it can be accessed through our library's online catalog, Destiny Quest. The name of the book is "Colors at Lakeshore." Type the title in Destiny's search box, click on the book, and then click once again on "open" to read the book online. Enjoy!

Butterfly Garden Movies

Two of the first grade classes chose to make movies about their butterfly gardens. We recently completed these and you can watch the movies by clicking the links below. One more class is still working on their project. Mrs. Hitchen's class is making a game and we may even try our hand at creating several short apps - so it is taking a little longer for this interesting project. Stay tuned for more information when their project is completed!

Mrs. Bramlett's Class Video

Mrs. Brown's Class Video

Butterfly Garden E-Books

All of the first grade classes have been working on projects in the media center about their butterfly gardens. Two of our first grade classes chose to write books and we completed them this week. They are available as e-books on the Internet and I have also made them accessible in our Destiny Quest online patron catalog. You can click on this link for Destiny Quest and search by the book name. When you find the book icon, click it and then click on "open" and the book will open in another window where you can read it.

Or you can click the links below to take you directly to the books:

Mrs. McClain's Butterfly Garden by Mrs. McClain's Class

In our Butterfly Garden by Mrs. Jaume's Class

Voting Results for GCBA

The 2015 GCBA winners have been announced.


The picture book winner is “Ol’ Clip Clip” by Patricia McKissack.


The chapter book winner is “Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell Block 25” by Richard Paul Evans.




Brookwood’s favorite picture book was “The Dark” by Lemony Snicket.


The chapter book winner at Brookwood was “Mr. Lemoncello’s Library” by Chris Grabenstein.


Students in kindergarten through 4th grade vote for their favorite picture book. Classroom teachers have been reading these books to their classes since September. Fourth and fifth grade students who wish to vote on chapter books read from the list independently. They must read at least two of the books to vote. The books on the nominee list are also the ones that are used in the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl that our 5th grade "Battle of the Books" team competed in recently. Fourth graders will be forming a team to compete with the 5th graders in May.

Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!

What a great time we had this morning with all of our guest readers! Thank you so much to everyone who took time out of their busy day to read to a class. Look for more pictures to be posted soon!

Tomorrow...

We are so excited about Read Across America and Dr. Seuss' Birthday tomorrow! With mid-winter break, snow days, a media specialist meeting on February 23rd, and a staff only day last Friday, it has been 2 weeks since I've seen students and I miss then! We have lots of guest readers coming in the morning to read to homeroom classes and many teachers have additional guests coming throughout the day, too! What a great way to welcome everyone back to school!

"You’re never too old,
Too wacky, too wild,
To pick up a book
And read to a child."
-Dr. Seuss