Library and Reading Corner
New Hampshire Fisher Cats Reading Challenge
Would you enjoy the chance to meet Fungo (yep, the Fisher Cats mascot) and watch some great, local, baseball? Can you read five books or more by March? If so, you will be rewarded with two free tickets to a Fisher Cats home game during the 2010 season. If you don't already have the application form for this fun event, please see Mrs. Hopf or stop by the library to get yours.
This challenge is brought to you by the Community College System of New Hampshire and the Fisher Cats.
For The Lightning Thief Fans Only
What to do before the movie comes out? Please join us in the BMS library, Monday, February 1, 2010, for small group discussions led by high school members of the Baker Free Library Teen Advisory Board and Mrs. Rousseau-Evans. We will be showing the movie trailer and discussing topics such as the bad events in Percy’s life, the ten signs that you might be a half-blood, and more! If you are interested in joining us, please sign up in the BMS Library.
P.S. We will also be having a “Greek Lightning” trivia contest in the BMS Library and Baker Free Library to help kick off their “Greek Lightning” event on February 12. There will be grand prizes, Greek foods, Greek Olympics, and more!
Research format: Works Cited Changes….
Some of us can remember when we didn’t need to know about including a works cited page or bibliography in our research papers until we were in college. However, like most subjects, students in middle school are ahead of that curve and need to have knowledge like this a lot earlier. So, if your child just happens to mention that underlining is out and italics are in—he/she is right! The changes have been updated on Citation Machine and are posted on the BMS Library site as well.
NEA’s Read Across America Celebration
Every midwinter, all Bow schools share in celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Since his birthday falls on March 2, the elementary school celebrates with the high school before vacation, while students at BMS celebrate after vacation.
“ Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books, and you can too!”
“On March 2, the National Education Association calls for every child to be reading in the company of a caring adult.”
Stay tuned for more information on this reading celebration!
The Newbery and Youth Media Awards may not quite have the glitz and the glamour of the Oscars, but the announcement on January 18 brought lots of excitement (and new books!) to our school. Coinciding with the fifth grade study of "what makes a great book," the students check out the 2010 winning titles nearly as soon as the press release is out. The ‘gold medal’ winning title this year is When You Reach Me, written by Rebecca Stead.
Summary from Library of Congress: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space." It is sure to be a book that will be re-read, and if BMS fifth graders are any indication, one that will also become quite popular.
There were four titles that won the silver Newbery medal, known as the Newbery Honor, in addition to many other awards for children’s books. Another favorite is the Schneider Family Book Award given to honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for children and adolescent audiences. This year’s winner is Anything But Typical by Norma Raleigh Baskin. Check out these and many other titles at the library or visit ALA’s “Youth Media Awards.”