Media Mail
Horizon Elementary---January 2023
Current News
- As winter break comes to a close, most books will be overdue. Be sure to turn those books in, or renew them in the first week back to avoid penalties.
- The majority of our new books have arrived and are already being circulated. These books were purchased with state library enhancement funds! Books were selected by student requests, teacher requests, recent award winning selections, and new books that have just been released! You can find a list of books added to our collection below.
- #CSEdWeek was amazing! Each grade level enjoyed a special activity. Pictures are below!
A Look Back at December
ClassVR- Holidays around the World
2nd and 3rd Grade travelled to 6 different locations around the world using VR headsets to learn about how different places celebrate the Holidays.
Retelling The Mitten with BeeBots
Students in 1st Grade retold the story of the Ukrainian folktale, The Mitten, using Beebots.
Kibo Snowplows
Students in 4th Grade created snow plows to attach to Kibo robots to create a pile of snow.
Retelling using Algorithms
Students in Kindergarten retold the story, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, by writing an algorithm based on the events and order of the story.
STEM Day
Students in 3rd-5th grades enjoyed STEM Day in the library. CORVID Technologies came and taught students about Density, Mass, and Volume!
Santa Visits Kindergarten
Santa visited Kindergarten before the break and read them "The Night Before Christmas". Thank you to Ms. Pavao for making this possible.
January Read Aloud
The Magical Yet Read Aloud
New Titles Added!
- Mambo mucho mambo! : the dance that crossed color lines
- Abe Lincoln at last!
- Addison Cooke and the ring of destiny
- Addison Cooke and the tomb of the Khan
- Addison Cooke and the treasure of the Incas
- The adventures of Captain Underpants : now in full color
- All right already! : a snowy story
- Alma and how she got her name
- Amelia Bedelia hops to it
- Amy Wu and the perfect bao
- Aphrodite the fair
- Aquatic adventurers, unite!
- The Arctic incident
- The Arctic incident
- Attack from Tilted Towers : an unofficial novel of Fortnite
- Attack of the fluffy bunnies
- Battle for Loot Lake : an unofficial Fortnite adventure novel
- The beak book
- Bear came along
- The bear in my family
- Because of an acorn
- Because of Mr. Terupt
- Bedtime jitters
- Beehive
- Betrayal at Salty Springs : an unofficial Fortnite novel
- The big bed
- A big mooncake for Little Star
- Big test jitters
- Blackout
- A book for Escargot
- The book with no pictures
- Born in the wild : baby mammals and their parents
- The boy who grew a forest : the true story of Jadav Payeng
- The bridge home
- The brightest night
- The brightest night : the graphic novel
- The Brooklyn nine : a novel in nine innings
- Cabin fever
- Cactus soup
- Can you survive storm chasing? : an interactive survival adventure
- The candymakers
- Cannonball
- The Challenger disaster : tragedy in the skies
- Chameleons are cool
- Chicks and salsa
- The Circus ship
- Clash at Fatal Fields : an unofficial novel of Fortnite
- Claudia and mean Janine
- Cloudette
- Comet, the unstoppable reindeer
- Cookie & Broccoli play it cool
- Cookie & broccoli : ready for school!
- Cool cuts
- Crankenstein
- Creature features : 25 animals explain why they look the way they do
- Crossings : extraordinary structures for extraordinary animals
- Crown : an ode to the fresh cut
- Captain Underpants and the big, bad battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, part 1 : night of the nasty nostril nuggets : the sixth epic novel
- Captain Underpants and the revolting revenge of the radioactive robo-boxers : the tenth epic novel
- Captain Underpants and the wrath of the wicked wedgie woman : the fifth epic novel
- Dandy
- The darkest dark
- Dinosaur lady : the daring discoveries of Mary Anning, the first paleontologist
- Diper overlode
- Dorko the magnificent
- The double bass blues
- Dragon hoops
- The dragon thief
- Dragonfly
- Dragons in a bag
- Drama
- Artemis Fowl : the graphic novel
- The eternity code
- The eternity code
- Excellent Ed
- Exclamation mark
- Sonic the Hedgehog : fallout, part 3
- First day critter jitters
- Fletcher and the falling leaves
- Flubby is not a good pet!
- For whom the ball rolls
- Fox at night
- Fry bread : a Native American family story
- Garfield cooks up trouble
- Garfield spills the beans
- Garfield lard of the jungle
- Giraffe problems
- The girl who thought in pictures : the story of Dr. Temple Grandin
- A good night for ghosts
- Goodbye, Mr. Terupt
- The great eggscape!
- Happy birthday to you!
- Have you ever seen a flower?
- Heidi Heckelbeck and the Christmas surprise
- Heidi Heckelbeck and the tie-dyed bunny
- Heidi Heckelbeck gets the sniffles
- Heidi Heckelbeck is a flower girl
- Heidi Heckelbeck is not a thief!
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- Hippos are huge!
- Hoop genius : how a desperate teacher and a rowdy gym class invented basketball
- Hoot and Peep
- The house that Jane built : a story about Jane Addams
- How do you dance?
- How we got to the moon : the people, technology, and daring feats of science behind humanity's greatest adventure
- I am a cat
- I don't want to be a frog
- I hop
- I need my monster
- I walk with Vanessa : a story about simple acts of kindness
- Ida, always
- If your monster won't go to bed
- The invisible boy
- The invisible string
- Junie B. Jones has a peep in her pocket
- Junie B. Jones smells something fishy
- Janine
- The King of Kindergarten
- The koala who could
- Last stop on Market Street
- The League of Seven
- Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- The Lego ideas book : unlock your imagination
- The little duck
- Lunch Lady and the field trip fiasco
- Loki : where mischief lies
- A long walk to water : a novel
- Looking at Lincoln
- The lost continent
- Luna & me : the true story of a girl who lived in a tree to save a forest
- Maddi's fridge
- Mae among the stars
- Marisol McDonald doesn't match = : Marisol McDonald no combina
- Martina the beautiful cockroach : a Cuban folktale
- Me & Mama
- Mel fell
- Memory jars
- The midnight fair
- Mothering heights
- Mr. Terupt falls again
- My cold plum lemon pie bluesy mood
- My friend Rabbit
- My mouth is a volcano!
- Naughty Mabel
- Nerdy Birdy
- Nerdy Birdy tweets
- The Night Gardener
- Nothing fits a dinosaur
- On a beam of light : a story of Albert Einstein
- Oskar and the eight blessings
- Other words for home
- Out of wonder : celebrating poets and poetry
- Outside in
- Over and under the snow
- Play in the wild : how baby animals like to have fun
- Pokemon adventures, 3
- Pokemon adventures, 5
- Pokemon adventures, 6
- Pokemon adventures, 1
- Pokemon adventures, 11 : gold & silver
- Pokemon adventures, 12 : gold & silver
- Pokemon adventures, 13 : gold & silver
- Pokemon adventures, 14 : gold & silver
- Pokemon adventures, 15 : Ruby & Sapphire
- Pokemon adventures, 17 : Ruby & Sapphire
- Pokemon adventures, 18 : Ruby & Sapphire
- Pokemon adventures.
- Pokemon adventures, 2
- Pokemon adventures, 20 : Ruby & Saphire
- Pokemon adventures, 22 : Ruby & Sapphire
- Pokemon adventures, 27 : Emerald
- Pokemon adventures, 28 : Emerald
- Pokemon adventures, 29 : Emerald
- Pokemon adventures, 4
- Pokemon adventures, 7
- The polar bear son : an Inuit tale
- President Taft is stuck in the bath
- The princess and the pea
- Quit calling me a monster!
- R-e-s-p-e-c-t : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul
- The rabbit listened
- The raft
- Read it, don't eat it!
- Real cowboys
- Red hat
- Red sled
- Refugee
- Room on the broom
- The rough patch
- School's first day of school
- The sea-ringed world : sacred stories of the Americas
- Seeing Red
- Seven and a half tons of steel
- Seven spools of thread : a Kwanzaa story
- A shadow in Riverclan
- Sheepish (wolf under cover)
- Shouting at the rain
- Silly sea stories
- Sleepy Dog, wake up!
- The smallest girl in the smallest grade
- Smell my foot!
- Snow
- Snow day!
- The snowman and the snowdog
- Some writer! : the story of E. B. White
- Something's wrong! : a tale of a bear, a hare, and some underwear
- Soul food Sunday
- Splatoon, vol. 1
- Splatoon, vol. 10
- Splatoon, vol. 11
- Splatoon.
- Splatoon.
- Splatoon.
- Splatoon, vol. 3
- Splatoon, vol. 4
- Splatoon, vol. 8
- Splatoon, vol. 9
- Spy camp
- The squad of Lucky Landing : an unofficial Fortnite novel
- Starfish
- A stone sat still
- Super detectives!
- Surfing
- Surfing
- Sylvie
- A tale of witchcraft---
- Tek, the modern cave boy
- Tales from a not-so-glam TV star
- Thank you, Omu!
- That's what leprechauns do
- The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science
- The third wheel
- This very tree : a story of 9/11, resilience, and regrowth
- The three little javelinas
- The tree lady : the true story of how one tree-loving woman changed a city forever
- Turk and Runt
- Unlikely friends
- Waiting for the Biblioburro
- Watercress
- We dream of space
- What about worms!?
- When angels sing : the story of rock legend Carlos Santana
- When Grandma gives you a lemon tree
- Where the wild things are
- Where's baby?
- The wild robot escapes
- The wimpy kid movie diary : how Greg Heffley went Hollywood
- The wimpy kid movie diary : the next chapter
- Wonder walkers
- Word travelers and the Taj Mahal mystery
- You will be my friend!
- Your name is a song
- Zip, zoom!
Upcoming Events
- Jan 6- Animal Crossings Read-Alouds with 1st Grade
- Jan 9- Snow Read-Alouds with Kindergarten
- Jan 13- Martin Luther King Jr. Read-Alouds with 2nd Grade
- Jan 16- No School!
- Jan 18-19- Book Talks with 3rd-5th
- Jan 20- Shelf Marker Practice with 1st Grade
Statistics
Circulation Statistics (How many books were checked out this month?)
August 2022- 737
September 2022- 5,321
October 2022- 4,168 (Highest in MCS! Go Eagles!)
November 2022- 4,001
December 2022- 2,734 (Highest in MCS! Go Eagles!)
Horizon Elementary Media Center
Email: jdbanks@madisoncity.k12.al.us
Website: https://www.madisoncity.k12.al.us/domain/625
Location: 7855 Old Madison Pike, Madison, AL 35758
Phone: 256-464-3614