Newsletter

Just created my first newsletter using Smore. Wow! It was so easy to do. Big thanks to The Librarian in the Middle for sharing this.

BMS READS posters

I recently finished reading Book Love by Penny Kittle.
It was a great book for professional learning advocating the benefits of self-selected, individual reading. I totally agree! Nothing impacts student achievement more. In the book, she makes posters of students are her school reading in different situations. I loved them and totally stole her idea. I took some pictures, used Fireworks to "cut out" the kids and design the posters, and then sent them to Staples to be printed. They came out looking fantastic. I have gotten so many complements from staff and the kids are loving them. Now everyone wants to pose for me!! Here they are, although you don't get the full effect unless they are in their full two foot by three foot glory.

Book Club

We had our first lunch time book club meeting yesterday. What a success! I am so glad that we worked it out to be able to meet during lunch since we don't have BLUE time anymore. For this meeting, we read The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman. Everyone really liked it because they could relate the items in the Grimm collection to the tales they remembered from their childhood. We also voted on our book for next time. 6th and 8th grade have chosen to read The Limit by Kristen Landon and 7th grade picked Ashes by Kathryn Lasky. I'm pretty excited about these choices because I already read them this summer. I won't have to stop what I am reading to read these!

    

The Other Side of the Story

The Media Center just got some really cool new books in. They tell the other side of popular fairy tales!





These would be great for lessons on Point of View.

Clean YA fiction

I stumbled across this while looking for good young adult books. It is a blog post of clean young adult books. If you click on the book it will take you to the review. Happy reading!
http://www.readingteen.net/2012/05/clean-reads-list.html?spref=tw

E Books

Mrs. Wilson will be purchasing some ebooks soon. Please stop by the Media Center to give her some suggestions on titles you would like to see purchased.

MC Launches Book Trailers

This week the media center launched the Book Trailer program.

 8^th grade students make 1-2 minute book trailers, similar to a movie trailer, for books in the media center. I attached a QR code to the books and I have a ipod at the check-out desk that students can get and scan the QR codes. It links them directly to the book trailer on the media center Youtube channel. Hopefully this will be a great way to spark kids interest in books that they otherwise would have passed up!

You can view the “how-to” video using this link: http://10.0.5.1/tight_url.cfm/URLID/341  

Also, if you would like to check out the student videos, you can watch them on the BMS Media Youtube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/mediabms?feature=mhee

Cool resource!

If you struggling to figure out what to read next, check out this cool website: http://whatshouldireadnext.com/ . You just type in the name of a book that your read that you really liked and it gives you suggestions for more just like it!

New books!

Wow, the past two weeks have been very hectic. We got everyone into the media center and found them something to read last week. This week I think they all came back and got something new! Also, I have been working on getting the new books processed and into the system. We got several new fiction books, but the bulk of the order was social studies related. 6th grade started their research today, so there were a ton of books that I had to hurry to process and get to Mrs. Stahl.

Some of the new fiction books included: The Kill Order (the prequel to The Maze Runner), At Wit's End (the sequel to Surviving the Applewhites), and The Angel Experiment (a replacement because kids read the other copy to death!).

I just finished reading Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter. It's the newest book in the Gallagher Girls series. I absolutely love these books. Thank goodness for authors who write strong girl characters. Up next, The Kill Order by James Dashner. I have to finish the series!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to the start of another GREAT school year. I am very excited to get started. We will be doing tons of research projects to meet the Common Core Standards this year, so the media center will always be packed! I am so excited. You know I don't like it quiet in here! :) I have some great ideas for projects that I'm going to test out with my partner in crime, Mrs. Coats.