Zoo Atlanta’s panda cam is now focusing on the new baby panda and his mother, Lun Lun.  The cub has been sick, but he is now doing much better.  The camera can be seen from 10 AM to 5PM weekdays, although the zoo seems to be extending the hours while the cub is being watched.  We have a panda central station setup in the media center.  Students can come see the panda cam and write notes about what they observe.  Of course, teachers can also access the panda cam in their classrooms and you can see it at home as well.  Take advantage of this rare opportunity to see a baby panda grow up.

Today was an amazing day.  We had 226 books checked out.  Students are really out in full force using our media center.  Our Scantron testing is over and the reading fever has hit.  Today in the purple folders you will get a newsletter from the media center.  I hope you find it informative.  It lists August’s number of books checked out.  I think we are well on our way to beating August’s circulation numbers if students keep coming like they did today.  Happy reading!

BTV is our morning broadcast at Barrow.  This week we were finally able to start broadcasting to the school.  We have some new equipment, so there will be some exciting changes to BTV this school year.  BTV is made up of a group of fifth grade students who rotate between 8 jobs.  The students have done an excellent job working through some technical difficulties this week and are acting as true professionals.  Check out the pics of the students in action.

For the month of August, our whole school was focusing on being kind.  We had some students at Barrow who were kind to our media center this month by doing something very special.  These students setup a lemonade stand and collected donations for our school.  They donated a portion of the money to the media center book builder program and donated the rest to their classrooms.  It is so wonderful to see students getting active in supporting their school.  This means so much to me and the teachers at Barrow.  Thank you to these students for their act of kindness.