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!!