Goals for 2014

One glance at a book...

If you liked Divergent...

Thought for the day...

The official poster for "Fault in our stars" has released!!!!

5 Apps to Encourage Reading Over the Winter Break

	Goodreads Teens learn by reading books, then forming and sharing opinions in an online setting. By engaging in friendly discourse about books, they'll learn communication skills. They'll be proud to add newly read books to their own online library and talk about their favorites with peers. Read full review.
	The Learning Network The Learning Network is a blog-style website that features New York Times news content. With some guidance, kids can explore and follow and read news articles that interest them. It's a great app to build reading habits by having kids follow current stuff on their favorite topics. Read full review.
	Professor Layton and The Curious Village Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a good, engaging app during the winter break because it's an incredibly fun game, with tons of tricky puzzles that help with analytical skills, and has a good amount of reading as well. And since it's a DS game, kids will love it and it won't feel like schoolwork but a gift. Read full review.
	Subtext Subtext might be the digital reading resource of your dreams. Parents can read a book first and annotate it, or read along with kids and annotate together. It's for tablet only, so parents and kids would need to share one device, but it allows a-temporal dialogue and interaction since parents could leave a note that kids see later during their reading time. Read full review.
	The Sports Network 2 The Sports Network 2 is set in the bustling context of cable sports news, but it's a reading game at heart. It can be used to build reading comprehension, teach core critical and evaluative reading skills, and/or as an introduction to the professional workplace. Read full review. Site link

New Books!

I was able to attend the scholastic warehouse sale and got boxes of new books.  I got 111 new books for the middle school!  I laid them out on tables and told kids as they came in that they could mark any they liked with a post-it and I would get it ready for then tomorrow.  Look at my picture...

New posters!

Beautiful new shelves in the AMS library...

(Taking the books off the old shelf)

Building the Book tree

SLJ's top 10 Apps of 2013

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New Harry Potter covers!!

Great holiday decor at the high school

(Advisory class making a book tree in the library)

(Mrs. Frater's awesome door!)

Superman Vs. the KKK

This was a very interesting book and I learned a ton. This book shares the extensive history of the creation of Superman as well as the formation of the KKK. Then, goes on to explain how the Superman comic took on the KKK. If you like history this is a great one!

Why you should read...

"Heaven is for real" trailer!

What I am thankful for...

This donation of brand new, beautiful graphic novels by an artist and children's book author, Jonathan Ribera!!!