World Almania 2009

Stormi Pitman, captain, along with teammates Kinsey Rankin and Calvin Downs claimed the 5th Grade World Almania championship title today. Representing Mrs. Zellner's class, they came from behind by correctly answering the Ultimania question in the final round of the tournament. Elizabeth Clardy, Diana Ridley, and Mitchell Lewis - representing Mrs. Hodges' class - won second place, followed very closely by the third place team (Mrs. Smith's class) of Bailey Martin, Natalie Ledbetter, and Byron Bruce. These three teams had previously won their class titles in order to advance to the finals. All 5th grade students were winners in learning how to use an almanac to find information and answer questions as we worked through our almanac unit over the past few weeks. We all had a lot of fun and learned a lot! Pictures will follow soon.

Author-Illustrators

We've learned about Ezra Jack Keats and read his books. Now we are making collage illustrations for our stories.

Read Across America 2009

This year each elementary class read 2 or 3 books about or set in a specific U.S. state or territory or authored by a native or resident of the state. As books were read, students came to the library media center to color in their class's states. Classes also made posters about their books. The posters will be on display in the cafetorium. We learned about geography and about special things about each of our states and territories.

Thanks!!

While we didn't quite reach our goal, we did have a good magazine sales drive to help our library. Thanks to all of you who purchased subscriptions, sold subscriptions, and helped in other ways. The grand finale to the sales drive was our annual Pig Race with the two top-selling classes from each turn-in day urging their pigs on in the competition. An eleventh grade home room managed to coax its pig across the finish line first. The students in that class will receive a "pig out pizza party."

Welcome, Grandparents!!

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The library media center invites all visiting grandparents to drop by our Open House on Grandparents Day on Dec. 12. We will have some pictures of library activities and lots of books available for donation "In Honor" or "In Memory" or as a "Birthday Book." Most of all, we want you to let your grandchild act as tour guide and show you our library and tell you about what they do in the library. We look forward to meeting you then!!

Sixth Grade is learning PowerPoint!

Sixth graders are preparing PowerPoint presentations of research done on the Alabama Virtual Library about India and Egypt. When they are finished, we'll try to post some samples so you can see the results of our work.

If you'd like to visit the Alabama Virtual Library to explore it yourself, just ask your 6th grade student or friend to give you a personal tour. You may get your own AVL password at the Auburn Public Library or the Opelika Public Library.

Students on Safari (Book Fair Safari, that is)

The library turned into "Safari Land" for the fall book fair. Students enjoyed selecting books for purchase. They also enjoyed meeting "Geronimo Stilton," who has his own series of books. Geronimo greeting students one morning as they arrived at school.