News from the Media Center
December 2013
Miss Nelson Is Missing
Everyone at Spearman seemed to really enjoy the play Miss Nelson Is Missing when the Greenville Little Theatre brought it to our school on November 7th. Thank you to all of the students for being so well behaved and attentive to the show! We hope that they will do a traveling show next year as well; our in-house field trip to the theatre was a lot of fun!
How to View Students' Progress in AR
Teachers: If you want to view your students' progress for the second nine weeks in AR, you can print a report which shows you all of the quizzes each student has taken this nine weeks, their scores, their overall average, and the number of points that they have earned. Follow these steps:
Log in.
Go to Accelerated Reader Enterprise – Reports - Reading Practice – Student Record.
By Select Students, drop down and choose your class.
By Reporting Period, drop down and choose 2nd Nine Weeks.
By Quiz Type, UNCHECK everything EXCEPT English Reading Practice Quizzes.
Then go to the bottom and click on View Report.
The Teacher Reader Book Club is taking a break for December, but you can get a head start on January's reading if you like. The book list and the tech tool you'll be exploring is already up on the wiki. Don't forget to go to the wiki each month for the directions of what to do. The address is http://teacherreaders.wikispaces.com/ . Then read your books, explore the tech tool, and make your posts about each book and tool in the threads on https://www.goodreads.com/ . We have a lot of fun exploring new books each month, so join us! Don't forget to always sign up in Coursewhere so that you get your recertification credit for participating.
New Picture Books in the Library
Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great, by Bob Shea
Poor Goat is jealous of Unicorn and all of the awesome stuff that he can do. And he's sure that Unicorn knows he's better than everyone else. He can make it rain cupcakes and turn stuff into gold! But what if Unicorn thought Goat was pretty amazing, too? Could they be friends? Read this funny and sweet story to find out!
The Snatchabook, by Helen Docherty
Where have all the bedtime stories gone?
It's bedtime in the woods of Burrow Down, and all the animals are ready for their bedtime story. But books are mysteriously disappearing. Eliza Brown decides to stay awake and catch the book thief. It turns out to be a little creature called the Snatchabook who has no one to read him a bedtime story. All turns out well when the books are returned and the animals take turns reading bedtime stories to the Snatchabook.
Book summary taken from www.goodreads.com.
The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!
Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown. Blue needs a break from coloring all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking to each other.
What is Duncan to do? Debut author Drew Daywalt and New York Timesbestseller Oliver Jeffers create a colorful solution in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.
Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown. Blue needs a break from coloring all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking to each other.
What is Duncan to do? Debut author Drew Daywalt and New York Timesbestseller Oliver Jeffers create a colorful solution in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way.
Book summary taken from www.goodreads.com.