Savvy Consumers

Students have been helping to decide which database the Media Center should purchase. They have compared PebbleGo and ScholasticGo and taken a web based survey to express their opinions. Stay tuned for the results!

Working in the Cloud

Third graders have been working hard to design brochures about composting. We have learned some of the basics of graphic design, researched our topic, written our informational text, edited and revised. Groups are adding their finished product to the class brochure - all at the same time on our "cloud" and then merging the data so that we have one document.

Kindergarten Pics

Today we introduced a few stations for Kindergarten during library time. Well - actually - we started with two classes last week, but it was a little hectic and I forgot to take pictures! Today it seemed a little calmer. After our storytime and checking out, students could choose between five stations for the last few minutes of class - reading buddies (stuffed animals and puppets), making a bookmark, Bookflix, keyboarding and mouse practice, and drawing their favorite place to read.

Thank You Brookwood PTA!

Look at our cute new shelves for our Everybody paperback books! Thanks to PTA for allowing us to purchase these with some of the funds that they so generously give to the media center each year. We were able to quickly order four of these and take advantage of a half price sale (and we do LOVE sale!s).

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.