This past Saturday, February 6th, the South Hall Reading Bowl Team traveled to Pickens County Middle School to compete in the North Regional Reading Bowl. Even though we didn’t place, we still had lots of fun and enjoyed the day! Here are some pictures:
And if this looks fun to you – please consider joining us next year. Most of my team this year was 8th graders, which means they will be leaving me and heading up to Johnson next year. SO I need new team members! Let me know if you would like to join and I can go ahead and give a few of the books for next year and you can look them over during the summer.
This week (February 1-5) is National School Counseling Week, so when you see Ms. Vincent and Mrs. Carlson this week, tell them “THANK YOU” for the awesome job they do at our school. While your at it, tell Mrs. Gensel thank you too and give her a big hug! Our counselors are a big part of our school and help head many fun projects, like the Golden Ticket campaign going on now.
We love our counselors! Thank you for all you do for us!
Look what I found on YouTube! It’s the movie trailer for Diary of a Wimpy Kid! I was a little harsh on this movie in my last posting about it, but after watching this trailer, I actually think this will be a very cute and funny movie. Check it out:
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and stay warm!
What??? There is going to be a Diary of a Wimpy Kid the movie. It hits theaters on April 2, 2010. I don’t know about this. . . .
Can you take a cool cartoon book and make it into a hit live-action film? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Here’s a pic of the actor in his role:
Book Review Time! Book Review Time! (Can you sing that to the tune of Peanut Butter Jelly Time?)
Peak by Roland Smith
An awesome adventure book that all the guys will enjoy! This book is about a guy named Peak Marcello. His parents named him Peak because they love climbing mountains. Peak too loves to climb, but living in the city he can only climb skyscrapers. His parents are divorced and it’s only until he gets arrested for climbing that his Dad takes an interest in him. In fact he takes a huge interest, like taking Peak to Tibet to climb Mount Everest. Why would his Dad take him across the world to climb? Because he wants Peak to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. The youngest person to reach the top was 15, so Peak and his Dad are on a tight time schedule to get Peak to the top before his 15th birthday. I enjoyed this book because of all the characters Peak meets along the way, like Holly Angelo, a fussy, stuck-up, fancy reporter who wants to capture Peak’s story of becoming the youngest person to climb Everest. And there’s also Sun-Jo, a guy who’s been climbing his whole life and is the same age as Peak who is assigned to help Peak along the way, but he has hidden secrets. . . .
Throughout the entire story the Chinese army is constantly in their way, checking papers, trying to stop them and all that. But the story gets suspenseful because you really don’t know if Peak will summit (or make it to the top) Everest or not. And guess what? I’m not going to tell you, but the ending is a surprise!
Check out Peak by Roland Smith today! This book is also available on CD in our “Books on CD” section of the library!
Welcome back to school from our “snow” break! I saw a lot of groggy faces yesterday, but hopefully today is a better day (with more sleep).
It’s book review time again and I’ve got a great one for all the ladies out there!
Way Down Deep by Ruth White
This book is about Ruby, a 12-year-old girl living in Way Down Deep, West Virginia. She lives in the town’s boarding house with Miss Arbutus, but how she got there no one knows! When Ruby was two or three (no one was sure of her exact age) she appeared on the steps of the town’s courthouse out of nowhere. Ruby’s life was good and she was happy, but she always wanted to know who her real parents were and where she came from. Well, one day out of the blue, a man comes to town and tries to rob the local bank (make a note a I said “tried”, he wasn’t that good). Robber Bob, as the town people call him, opens up doors to Ruby’s past. Does Robber Bob really know who she is? Does Robber Bob know where she was born and where she came from? Check out this great book to find out. . . .
What a cool tool! Our Media Center is now one of the venues on the LibraryThing Local Books app for iPhone/iPod! This is a free app so if you have one of these fancy gadgets, download the LibraryThing Local Books app! So add the app and search for our library by name, South Hall Middle School Library, our address, or even our zip code, 30542. You will find links on there to our website. In the future, when our catalog system Destiny goes online to the Internet, you’ll be able to access it from your iPhone/iPod!! So stayed tuned for that!
Did you have a good rest over the Winter Break? I’m sure everyone’s feeling groggy today from having to get back up at regular time for school. And now that we’re back – it’s 2010!
Sidenote: Are you saying twenty-ten or two-thousand ten?
I read a great Blog by a Techy Librarian named Stephen Abram and he had a great post about the technology we all use now, almost everyday in fact, that we didn’t have ten years ago in 2000. I know most of you were in Kindergarten back in 2000 or even pre-school, but look at this list of technology and think – we didn’t have this in 2000 – at all. How many of these items do you use everyday? Time flies when it comes to advances in technology. I’m sure many of you could add to this list, like maybe the Wii or DS. . . .
