Enjoy,
Miss Menesale
You can also check out ALA's 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults list.
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Happy Holidays and Happy 11 Days of Reading! The winter break is a great time to snuggle under a blanket with a cup of hot chocolate and read a great book. Here are my 11 (+1 to grow on) suggestions for great reads over vacation! Enjoy, Miss Menesale You can also check out ALA's 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults list.
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Wood Hill teachers defeated the eighth grade student team in the 2013 Turkey Bowl. This year's Turkey Bowl was held on Friday, Dec. 6 after being postponed due to rain. Teachers won 3-1 against four student teams (two girl and two boy teams). It was a cold, drizzly day but that didn't dampen anyone's spirit. Students played hard and a touchdown was scored by eighth grader Malachi Bahouth in the final minutes. This video was put together by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to explain why libraries are an important resource for our youth. Interested in learning more why libraries help teens? This article written by Robin Overby Cox and published in School Library Journal looks at how library services have been squelched in many communities and how it's hurting students.
Wood Hill held its annual Scholastic Book Fair this year from Nov. 18-22. This year's fair was both successful and fun, says Book Fair Chairperson Liz Godfrey. The fair was run by PAC and earned $1,806, more than any fair in the past three years. Students were able to purchase great fiction and nonfiction titles. It was a great event to promote reading. "This means that we have $756 to use for teacher wish lists. We sold a lot of holiday gifts and sold out of many book titles. There was a great turnout every day for the 'guessing game' and a lot of fun giving out prizes," said Godfrey. Godfrey thanks the volunteers, teachers and students for their help in running the fair, advertising and giving suggestions for future fairs. The PAC donated the books above to The Hub, adding to new titles available for students to check out.
Eighth graders at Wood Hill took a trip to Boston on Tuesday, Nov. 26 to visit the House of Blues. There they watched a performance by the Boston SchoolHouse Band and took a tour of the artwork on all three floors. This trip is offered by the International House of Blues Foundation, which explores aspects of blues-inspired music and folk art as part of American history. The trip coincides with the eighth grade study of African American history and reading of The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers. In the photo gallery above, Wood Hill students listen to performances and view art work at the House of Blues in Boston. The International House of Blues Foundation provides access to the Blues SchoolHouse resources for students. Watch a performance by the Blues SchoolHouse Band at the House of Blues in Boston.
Have you read Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant by Veronica Roth yet? If not, check them out in The Hub. If you have and are looking for something similar, check out this article "25 Books To Try If You Loved Divergent," on BuzzFeed. We have MANY of these books in The Hub!
Sixth grade students in Miss Consiglio's Health class are learning all about Internet Safety and being a good digital citizen this month. This includes researching facts about cyberbullying and presenting that new knowledge on a poster for other Wood Hill students to access. Students made print based posters as well as digital posters on Smore. Check them out around the hallways at Wood Hill and online. School librarians from across the country met from Nov. 14-17, in Hartford, CT for the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) 16th National Conference & Exhibition. I attended the conference and learned some new skills I can't wait to share with Wood Hill students---and oh yeah, got to hang out with famous authors! Here I am with Bomb author Steve Sheinkin and West Middle School Digital Learning Specialist Shelley Coughlin! 8West students are currently reading Sheinkin's book The Notorious Benedict Arnold. I met Sheinkin and got him to sign copies of his novels Bomb and Lincoln's Grave Robbers. So stop by and check out the author signed copies in The Hub! Check out this visualization of the Libraries of the Future. The visualization was adapted from PewInternet.com, of a keynote address for the 2012 State University of New York Librarians Association Annual Conference.
Thanks to West Middle School Digital Learning Specialist Shelley Coughlin for this wonderful info…. Some of you may be familiar with author John Green, who penned some amazing young adult novels such as The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska. John and his brother Hank have a web series called Nerd Fighters, where they vlog together about various topics. Hank also had an idea to make a modern adaptation of a classic novel, and came up with the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a vlog style journal based on Pride and Prejudice. Enjoy! |
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