CMS Library News
September 19, 2016
Lego Movie Maker
AR Goal Update
Goal: 22,000 (first semester)
5th: 426.3
6th: 916.6
7th: 913.9
8th: 1134.8
Tools You Can Use
What: Lego Movie Maker
Cost: Free
How: Download the app to your iPad. Contact Mrs. Pollack for a step-by-step direction page for students.
Award Winners
Codename Zero is a series. Look for Countdown Zero and Crisis Zero in the library.
Spotlight on Non-Fiction: The Dark Side of Chocolate
The Aztecs referred symbolically to cacao as yollotl extli, meaning "heart blood." The cacao pod symbolized the beating human heart, torn from the victim's chest at the moment of sacrifice. The association between the human heart and cacao pods may have relied partly on a slight similarity in shape, but more important, both were vessels that held precious liquid-blood and chocolate. (55)
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat
By: Kay Frydenborg
Interest Level: Middle Grades +
Reading Level: 9.2
Mrs. Pollack, CMS Librarian
Email: bpollack@cuba.k12.mo.us
Website: http://www.cuba.k12.mo.us/MiddleSchool/Library.html
Phone: 5738852534