Recommended Summer Reading Lists

Read-Kiddo-Read: A Great Resource for Book Recommendations, Nice!
http://www.ReadKiddoRead.com/home


Dekalb County Library Summer Reading Lists

http://www.dkpl.org/ys_book_lists.asp

Annotated list by rising grade level

http://www.pkwy.k12.mo.us/panda/subjectlinks/elemreading.html

Barnes and Noble Reading Program Book Log (Read 8 books, get 1 Free from B & N!)

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/pimages/resources/events/2010/summerreading/pdf/2010_PassporttoSummerReading.pdf

Family Education Recommendations!

Recommended Reading Lists for All Ages - FamilyEducation.com

Murphey Candler Library Gets an Activ-Wand!!

Our Promethean board is great but many of the students were unable to fully enjoy the interactive functionality using the Activ-Pen because they they simply could not reach the middle and higher portions of the board without some help!

Now that we have an Activ-Wand, (we like to call it the Magic Wand) even the youngest students can reach up high and interact with the board during learning activities. Here are some pictures of what we have been doing with our new Activ-

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Library Media Center Receives a New Rug!

The library media center is very grateful to all of the donors who contributed to our story time rug project. The students needed a comfy place to sit and rugs are very expensive! I posted our request on donorschoose.org and within two weeks our project was fully funded. We received our rug  less than one month from the time our project request was posted. (http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=361410) As you can see, Ms Clark's Kindergarten class is really enjoying the new rug. They were the first class to sit on it as they listened to the story "Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice' by Judy Schachner http://www.skippyjonjones.com/. Check out all of the Skippyjon Jones adventures!!!!

Book Fair Coming Soon!!!! Jan 19 - Jan 22

Calling all book lovers!!! The Pickle Patch Book Fair Bus is coming to Murphey Candler. The book fair bus will be parked outside the gym and will be open Tues. Jan. 19 - Fri. Jan. 22. Students will be going with their classes to preview the books and they will bring home a wish list. If you want to purchase any of the books on their wish list, simply put the cash in their wish list envelope and they will come back to the book fair to get their books. Also, to add the excitement, parents can come and shop with their children until 6:00 pm on Thursday, Jan. 21st. That's right, the book fair is having a late night so that parents can get a chance to join in the fun!! See you at the Pickle Patch!!

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A Message from Author Toni Buzzeo

Famous author and Teacher-Librarian Toni Buzzeo sent a special message to the Murphey Candler students. She was gracious enough to create a quick message when we met at the 2009 COMO Conference.

Using http://www.wordle.net/

Ms Dyer gave us an idea. She has  been making Wordles with their classes. Wordles is a fun Java applet that was created by someone at IBM during his spare time. Using this program, students brainstorm concept related words and type them into the program.

A variation on the Wordle is the Wordle book ad as shown in this sample (some of the words came out a bit too small though). Here, you create the Wordle and then take a screen capture of it. Next, it gets pasted into another program like Publisher or PowerPoint with a copy and pasted picture of the book cover. After joining the two images together, copy the screen capture and save it as a .jpg. Or, leave it in Power Point and create a class PowerPoint presentation of Wordle book ads!!