Smith Media Center Review
November/December 2012
Winter Break, here we come...
Wishing you all a relaxing and rejuvenating Winter Break...
Ancient Civilizations
World Language Projects Using VoiceThread
Using Technology in World Language Classes
Ms. Merryman's Spanish classes also learned to use VoiceThread with the help of Ms. Sapkarov and Mr. Cottrell to create a family album, which they will share with their pen pals in Mexico. They created a storyboard of their family members, with descriptions of each person, and then added photographs, text, and audio to complete their family albums.
Check out the links below for examples of student work on these two projects!
Scholastic Book Fair
Global Connections
Social Movements
8th
8th grade spent time at the end of November and beginning of December working on a social movement research project in Language Arts.
grade
Students first explored different social movements by using Encyclopedia Britannica and InstaGrok.
research
Ms. Sapkarov taught students how to organize their research using EasyBib, how to evaluate websites, and where to go for the most reliable and useful information.
Book Clubs Update
Battle of the Books
We will be having a t-shirt design contest coming up in the new year to determine what we will all wear to the competition. :)
Our district competition will be held at Culbreth Middle School on March 20, 2013.
ARC Book Club
In the meantime, the Smith Book Review Blog was launched last week, with reviews by Smith students. Check out the link below!
Coming Soon! CZ Clubs!
About Us
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Anna-Marie Pellett (Media Assistant) &
Natalie Sapkarov (Teacher-Librarian)
Email: nsapkarov@chccs.k12.nc.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/chccs.k12.nc.us/smithmedia/
Location: 9201 Seawell School Road, Chapel Hill, NC
Phone: 919-918-2145
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