What's New in the LMC?
November/December 2018
Max Brallier donated all four of his books to our LMC.
If you were in the Forget Me Not book club, stop by the LMC for your author signed bookmark.
Upcoming...
One for Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn
December 3, 2018 11:00 in the LMC, lunch will be provided.
LMC at Lunch
5th-6th 11:00-11:30
7th-8th 11:40-12:10
Bring your lunch
Maker Monday
Tech Tuesday
Zine Making Wednesday
Doodling Thursday
Sign up on LMC Google Classroom today! Space is limited.
password: cobras
Emoji Book Recommendation Winners
Students check your emails to find out who won this month and listen to the daily announcements.
Mrs. Hughes Book Picks...
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book is banned from the school library--by starting her own illegal locker library!
It all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out her favorite book in the whole world, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, from the school library. That's when Mrs. Jones, the librarian, told her the bad news: her favorite book was banned! All because a classmate's mom thought the book wasn't appropriate for kids to read.
Amy Anne decides to fight back by starting a secret banned books library out of her locker. Soon, she finds herself on the front line of an unexpected battle over book banning, censorship, and who has the right to decide what she and her fellow students can read.
Mission Unstoppable by Dan Gutman
The most exciting road trip in history begins! In this action-packed, New York Times bestselling adventure, twelve-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a family vacation you'll have to read to believe.
With the real-kid humor that has earned Dan Gutman millions of fans around the world, and featuring weird-but-true American tourist destinations, The Genius Files is a one-of-a-kind mix of geography and fun. As Coke and Pepsi dodge nefarious villains from the Pez museum in California all the way to the Infinity Room in Wisconsin, black-and-white photographs and maps put young readers right into the action. And don't miss the next leg of the journey in The Genius Files: Never Say Genius!
Resistance by Jennifer Nielsen
Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference. Using forged papers and her fair features, Chaya becomes a courier and travels between the Jewish ghettos of Poland, smuggling food, papers, and even people.
Soon Chaya joins a resistance cell that runs raids on the Nazis' supplies. But after a mission goes terribly wrong, Chaya's network shatters. She is alone and unsure of where to go, until Esther, a member of her cell, finds her and delivers a message that chills Chaya to her core, and sends her on a journey toward an even larger uprising in the works — in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Though the Jewish resistance never had much of a chance against the Nazis, they were determined to save as many lives as possible, and to live — or die — with honor.
What's been going on?
- 5th & 6th grade students have been learning about text features.
- 5th & 6th grade students created Text Feature Doodle Cubes
- Students used the digital version of the Sentinel Record to create slides of text features they found in the newspaper, they clipped and labeled those text features in their slides.
- 7th and 8th grade Frozen Charlotte book club members Skyped with the author, Alex Bell.
- 7th & 8th grade Forget Me Not book club Skyped with the author, Ellie TErry
- 5th-8th grade used Flipgrid to record a book recommendation of the best book they ever read.
- Hour of Code, December 3-7, in the LMC
Text Features
(increases comprehension of non fiction texts)
Table of Contents
Photos/Captions
Headings/Titles
Words in bold/Italics
Subheadings/Subtitles
Charts
Graphs
Maps
Diagrams/Labels
Index
Glossary
Great Job Students!
Doddle Cubes
Benefits of Doodling
Increases Focus
Stress relief
Increases memory
According to
Garland County READS Trivia Winners
Week 1 Trivia Winners
Week 2 Trivia Winners
Arkansas Book Awards
What happens in book club?
Skype with author Ellie Terry and three other schools
Skype with author Alex Bell from the UK
Snapshots in the LMC
Remember the Fiction Section is Now Labeled with Genre
About Mrs. Hughes
Follow the LMC on Instagram: @cobralibrary
Email: rhughes@flcobras.com
Website: http://flcobras.com/libraries/middle_school_library
Phone: 501-701-1722
Twitter: @rondahughes10