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Author Visit

On Tuesday December 2, Pam Alexander visited our school.  We had a great time hearing her talk about Georgia.  She has traveled all over the state and put her traveling knowledge into her books and illustrations.  Her books include The Onion Ambassador, Sails Pails and Alligator Tales, Yumion’s Mountain Holidays, Yumion Goes to the City, and Jeremiah Makes History Hop.  Many students bought her books and got her autograph.  Check out the pics of her visit.  If you didn’t get a chance to purchase her books, stop by the media center and check on out.

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Storyteller Visits Barrow

Jackie Elsener, librarian from Athens Regional Library, visited our school on Monday November 17 to tell stories to 4th and 5th grade.  The students enjoyed listening to the Tinder Box and a civil war ghost story.  She showed students the books where she learned the stories that she told.  Storytelling is a wonderful activity.  Try telling a story of your own to someone you know.  Also, don’t forget that Athens Regional library is a wealth of information and a wonderful place to find some new stories.

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New Books!

The Clarke County School District approved money for each school to purchase materials to update media center collections.  The money focused on buying materials that met the new science and social studies curriculum.  These orders are starting to arrive in our media center, and we are so happy to see them here.  Here are pics of the first book order.  Also, I did a book talk on one of new arrivals.  Stop by and see what’s new.

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Guest Reader Day

Today was one of our annual guest reader days at Barrow.  We had a wide variety of community members who attended.  Each community member selected a book and read to a classroom.  Every classroom had at least one reader, but many had two.  Thank you to these people who read:

Hester Meyers

Evelyn Riley

Christie Purks

Madelyne Van Dyke

Harry Simms

Sue Holt

Amy Gellins

Paul Kurtz

Lane Norton

Mike Wooten/Mark Richt

Denise Mewborn

Heidi Davison/Lisa Cesnik

Ethelynn Simpson

Judge Sweat

Noris Price

James Simms

Ken Mauldin

Leland Barrow

Melissa Roberts

Eric Keese
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Graphic Novels are Here!

It has been a long wait and an interesting story about all of the trouble it took to get our new graphic novels to our media center.  I won’t tell you the story now, but I wanted to let you know that…..THEY’RE HERE!  Several students already came to check them out today.  Check out the pics below to see the new arrivals and some very excited students.

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Polldaddy

We are going to start putting some polls on our blog and on our media center webpage.  These polls are for students, teachers, families, and anyone else who visits our sites.  Here is our first poll.  Try it out!

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Storybook Parade Video

For those of you who missed our storybook parade, you can now view highlights on our website.  Don’t forget to send this to your family and friends.  Click here to see our video using our new FLIP video cameras.

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Storybook Parade

Ocotber 30th was the storybook parade at Barrow.  We dressed as our favorite storybook characters and paraded to 5 points with our books.  It was so much fun to see 400 students moving down the sidewalk and chanting, “Read More Books!  Read More Books!”  Take a look at everyone in action.

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Vote Panda!

I’m sure everyone had a wonderful time voting in our mock election and our Presidential election, but now there’s an opportunity for another kind of voting.  Zoo Atlanta’s baby panda will turn 100 days old on December 8.  You have a chance to help decide his name by visiting Zoo Atlanta’s webpage and casting your vote.  Do this on your own, with your family, or with your class.  See if your favorite name gets chosen on December 8.

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Storytelling

I love a good story.  I especially love listening to people tell their stories.  My wife and I often go to different storytelling events.  Recently, we went to Stone Mountain to the Tour of Southern Ghosts and hear some wonderful, spooky stories.  Today in the media center, I was fortunate enough to get to tell a story to two fourth grade classes who are studying Native American folktales and scary stories.  Here is a link to my story.