Hey Rams,
I am so happy to announce that we have finally received the order of books we have been so patiently waiting on! There are exactly 124 books in this shipment and they include many fantasy selections such as:
The Icemark Chronicles and Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill
Larklight and Mothstorm as well as Starcross by Philip Reeve
Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
The 4th and 5th in the Ranger's Apprentice Series, The Battle of Skandia and The Sorcerer of
the North by John Flanagan
The 4th in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series, Outcast by Michelle Paver
The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series called The
Alchemist, The Magician, and The Sorceress
There are also some great fiction selections:
Maggie Bean Stays Afloat and The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn
Meg Cabot's Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day and Party Princess
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
If you like historical fiction, you might like:
Nick of Time by Ted Bell
A Tugging String by David Greenberg
Some great non-fiction titles I'm excited about are:
The Library Book by Maureen Sawa
You Can't Read This by Val Ross
Ghost Towns and Haunted Hotels by Sarah Parvis
Into the World of the Dead by Michael Boughn
Of course I could go on and on since I just love new books, but I'll stop there. Come down here and see these new books for yourself. You might just feel the way that this person does when you see them:
"Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it."--Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop
What a great quote! And it's perfect for this Halloween season.
So don't be haunted by book ghosts; lay them to rest by reading as many books as you can!
See you in the Media Center,
Mrs. Bridges
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Did You Miss Me?
Hey Rams,
I was out of school on Thursday and Friday last week attending a conference for Media Specialists and Librarians down at the Trade Center. It is called GaCOMO which means the Georgia Council of Media Organizations. I went to numerous informative sessions that taught me so many interesting things so that I could come back to school and teach them to YOU (and the other teachers, too)! There were so many classes on all the FREE web 2.0 software that is out there for everyone to use. One session I especially enjoyed was called "Animoto" and they showed us how to use this site to make short videos. It is so easy. You can use your own pictures, videos and music, or you can use all of their material on the site. Click here for a demonstration of what I quickly threw together this morning. It's about our Media Center.
http://animoto.com/play/uCJL71dJKyfYVZnn0jHGXQ?utm_campaign=share_email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_email
You can create your own account if you want to make some cool videos. Go to http://www.animoto.com/.
Unfortunately, I left all my notes from the conference at home so I'll have to post information later about other things I learned.
OH- I did get to see two children's authors while I was there which was so COOL! One was named Carmen Deedy and the other was Toni Buzzeo. They were both wonderful speakers and storytellers. See more about them at their sites http://www.carmendeedy.com/ and http://www.tonibuzzeo.com/.
Keep reading (and then let me know what you really liked),
Mrs. Bridges
I was out of school on Thursday and Friday last week attending a conference for Media Specialists and Librarians down at the Trade Center. It is called GaCOMO which means the Georgia Council of Media Organizations. I went to numerous informative sessions that taught me so many interesting things so that I could come back to school and teach them to YOU (and the other teachers, too)! There were so many classes on all the FREE web 2.0 software that is out there for everyone to use. One session I especially enjoyed was called "Animoto" and they showed us how to use this site to make short videos. It is so easy. You can use your own pictures, videos and music, or you can use all of their material on the site. Click here for a demonstration of what I quickly threw together this morning. It's about our Media Center.
http://animoto.com/play/uCJL71dJKyfYVZnn0jHGXQ?utm_campaign=share_email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_email
You can create your own account if you want to make some cool videos. Go to http://www.animoto.com/.
Unfortunately, I left all my notes from the conference at home so I'll have to post information later about other things I learned.
OH- I did get to see two children's authors while I was there which was so COOL! One was named Carmen Deedy and the other was Toni Buzzeo. They were both wonderful speakers and storytellers. See more about them at their sites http://www.carmendeedy.com/ and http://www.tonibuzzeo.com/.
Keep reading (and then let me know what you really liked),
Mrs. Bridges
Monday, October 5, 2009
Join Arnold's Reading Bowl Team
Reading Bowl Starts Tomorrow!
Hey Rams,
I am starting to meet with Arnold students who are interested in being on our Reading Bowl team. We'll meet every other Tuesday until December when we will start meeting every Tuesday in preparation for the competition to be held in late January. Come by the Media Center for a parent permission form. See the link below to see how this fun competition got started.
http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/hrrb/
The collection of 20 books that we are reading for the competition have been nominated to be the Georgia Book Award book for middle grades. We will vote in February for our favorite book, and we'll anxiously wait for the results to come out in early April to see which of these fantastic books will be the winner!
Here's the list of nominated books that our Reading Bowl team is reading:
Saving the Griffin by K W Nitz
Trading Places by C Mills
Uprising by M P Haddix
The Wednesday Wars by G D Schmidt
Bearwalker by J Bruchac
Billy Creekmore by T Porter
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by M D Hahn
Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra by W Lichtman
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by S Fleischman
Feathers by J Woodson
Football Genius by T Green
Greetings from Nowhere by B O’Connor
Hiroshima Dreams by K Easton
Leepike Ridge by N D Wilson
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by E Berlin
The Rising Start of Rusty Nail by L M M Blume
Someone Named Eva by J M Wolfe
The Sorta Sisters by A Fogelin
The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous by S C Crowley
Elijah of Buxton by C P Curtis
So come to the Media Center tomorrow after school from 3:30 to 4;30 to hear more about this exciting competition and how you can be a part of our team!
Hey Rams,
I am starting to meet with Arnold students who are interested in being on our Reading Bowl team. We'll meet every other Tuesday until December when we will start meeting every Tuesday in preparation for the competition to be held in late January. Come by the Media Center for a parent permission form. See the link below to see how this fun competition got started.
http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/hrrb/
The collection of 20 books that we are reading for the competition have been nominated to be the Georgia Book Award book for middle grades. We will vote in February for our favorite book, and we'll anxiously wait for the results to come out in early April to see which of these fantastic books will be the winner!
Here's the list of nominated books that our Reading Bowl team is reading:
Saving the Griffin by K W Nitz
Trading Places by C Mills
Uprising by M P Haddix
The Wednesday Wars by G D Schmidt
Bearwalker by J Bruchac
Billy Creekmore by T Porter
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by M D Hahn
Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra by W Lichtman
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by S Fleischman
Feathers by J Woodson
Football Genius by T Green
Greetings from Nowhere by B O’Connor
Hiroshima Dreams by K Easton
Leepike Ridge by N D Wilson
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by E Berlin
The Rising Start of Rusty Nail by L M M Blume
Someone Named Eva by J M Wolfe
The Sorta Sisters by A Fogelin
The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous by S C Crowley
Elijah of Buxton by C P Curtis
So come to the Media Center tomorrow after school from 3:30 to 4;30 to hear more about this exciting competition and how you can be a part of our team!
Mrs. Bridges
ebridges@mcsdga.net
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