Do you know what a booktalk is? A booktalk is when someone tells you a little bit about the book to entice you to want to read it.
Well, I am at a training today and saw that there are booktalks in iTunes! How cool is that! I'm going to figure out how to get these to where we can see them from here. Hmmmm.....any ideas out there for how to do that???
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Where has the time gone?
Has it really been that long since I posted something? Please let me apologize for that. I hope to be posting much more often and putting up links to sites that will be useful to you in research as well as other areas of your life.
News:
Our Reading Bowl teams scored 220 points in the competition that took place on January 29th at Blackmon Road Middle School. It wasn't enough to win it all, but I think we did pretty well. Everyone on the team scored some points for Arnold. Way to go guys! Our party will be coming soon - may this Thursday.
We earned a lot of money with the bookfairs (2)we had so far this year. I've been able to keep the shelves stocked with new titles that everyone has been enjoying, and I purchased some new book sets for each of the grades. We do have one more bookfair coming up in late April after testing. Save your money so you can get some great books for summer reading!
I got the new Reading Bowl list today for the 2011-2012 school year so my readers can start reading now! Just kidding - if you start now, you will forget all you read by next year for sure. Here are the titles:
1. Connor, L. (2008). Waiting for normal.
2. Draper, S. (2010). Out of my mind.
3. Williams-Garcia, R. (2010). One crazy summer.
4. Sonnenblick, J. (2010). After ever after.
5. Erskine, C. (2010). Mockingbird. New York, NY: Philomel.
6. Lin, G. (2009). Where the mountain meets the moon.
7. Alvarez, J. (2009). Return to sender.
8. Haissen, C. (2009). Scat.
9. Philbrick, R. (2009). The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg.
10. Baskin, N. R. (2009). Anything but typical.
11. Wiles, D. (2010). Countdown.
12. Pearsall, S. (2008). All shook up.
13. Korman, G. 2008). Swindle.
14. Angleberger, T. (2010). Strange case of Origami Yoda.
15. Klise, K. (2009). 43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying to meet you.
16. Clements, A. (2009). Extra credit. New York, NY: Atheneum
17. O’Conner, B. (2010). The fantastic secret of Owen Jester.
18. Collins, S. (2008). The Hunger Games.
19. Berg, A. (2009). All the broken pieces.
20. Anderson, L. H. (2008) Chains.
These look like some really delicious titles and I can't wait to dig into them!
News:
Our Reading Bowl teams scored 220 points in the competition that took place on January 29th at Blackmon Road Middle School. It wasn't enough to win it all, but I think we did pretty well. Everyone on the team scored some points for Arnold. Way to go guys! Our party will be coming soon - may this Thursday.
We earned a lot of money with the bookfairs (2)we had so far this year. I've been able to keep the shelves stocked with new titles that everyone has been enjoying, and I purchased some new book sets for each of the grades. We do have one more bookfair coming up in late April after testing. Save your money so you can get some great books for summer reading!
I got the new Reading Bowl list today for the 2011-2012 school year so my readers can start reading now! Just kidding - if you start now, you will forget all you read by next year for sure. Here are the titles:
1. Connor, L. (2008). Waiting for normal.
2. Draper, S. (2010). Out of my mind.
3. Williams-Garcia, R. (2010). One crazy summer.
4. Sonnenblick, J. (2010). After ever after.
5. Erskine, C. (2010). Mockingbird. New York, NY: Philomel.
6. Lin, G. (2009). Where the mountain meets the moon.
7. Alvarez, J. (2009). Return to sender.
8. Haissen, C. (2009). Scat.
9. Philbrick, R. (2009). The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg.
10. Baskin, N. R. (2009). Anything but typical.
11. Wiles, D. (2010). Countdown.
12. Pearsall, S. (2008). All shook up.
13. Korman, G. 2008). Swindle.
14. Angleberger, T. (2010). Strange case of Origami Yoda.
15. Klise, K. (2009). 43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying to meet you.
16. Clements, A. (2009). Extra credit. New York, NY: Atheneum
17. O’Conner, B. (2010). The fantastic secret of Owen Jester.
18. Collins, S. (2008). The Hunger Games.
19. Berg, A. (2009). All the broken pieces.
20. Anderson, L. H. (2008) Chains.
These look like some really delicious titles and I can't wait to dig into them!
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