2020 Christmas Contest

It's time again for our annual Christmas contest in which we decorate our library Christmas tree with ornaments representing specific books.  Guess the most correct titles for these books and win!  A PowerPoint featuring each of the ornaments and the directions for the contest can be found on the library Google classroom pages.  Codes for those pages are below.  

The contest is open through Christmas Eve.  There will be a winner in each grade, with prizes being awarded when we return from Christmas.

Good luck!

6th Grade Library Class Code

ot47was

7th Grade Library Class Code

2zturai

8th Grade Library Class Code

24j6ry2

A 'Thank You' To All Who Served

On this Veteran's Day, we want to express our gratitude to those who served.

Be sure to stop by the library and check out one of our books on the military and the wars in which they've fought. And always remember, freedom is never free!

VIRTUAL STUDENT ELA BOOK PICK UP DATES

Tuesday, November 10 or Wednesday, November 11 are the dates all virtual students need to come to school to pick up their CASE Benchmark tests.  

Additionally, 6th and 8th grade students need to pick up their new novel to use in ELA class.  HOWEVER, you must return your current book before receiving your new one.

8th grade students need to return The Crossover.

6th grade students need to return Bud, Not Buddy (if you haven't already) and Out of the Dust.

The date for 7th grade book pick up will be announced later.

HALLOWEEN CONTEST WINNERS

The winners in the library's Google classroom Halloween contest were Pyper Dorris, Abigail Love and Macy Templeton.  These students each won a new, hardcover edition of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (the complete series), a DVD of the 2019 film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and a bag of Halloween treats.  Congratulations, girls!

Students, keep checking the library's classroom for more activities, contests and other reading incentives.

Pyper D. and Abigail L.

(Macy T. not pictured)

BOOK CHARACTER COSTUMES

To celebrate Halloween at WMS, several students dressed in costumes inspired by characters from some of our favorite books.  Take a look!

Brayden P. as Harry Potter

Mallory B. as Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Kendra H. as Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series and Gracie C. as the Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Jimmie H. as Cedric from the Harry Potter series

Avery Mc. as Stacy from the Wild Rescuers series

Everett I. as Frank Zhang from The Son of Neptune

Asher S. as Coraline Jones from Coraline

STUDENT BOOK-INSPIRED ART

A big thank you to sixth-grade student Elijah Brinkley who drew this cool picture to go along with our Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark contest.  Thanks a lot, Elijah! We love it!

DON'T FORGET...

...tomorrow is the deadline for completing the Halloween ("Little Orphant Annie") lesson in the library's Google classroom to get your name into a drawing to win your own hardbound copy of Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark, a DVD of the film version AND a bag full of Halloween treats.

HALLOWEEN CONTEST

MODULE ONE PRIZE WINNERS

Congratulations to the following students for winning the drawings for the first nine weeks.  For every library Google classroom assignment completed, students get their names put in the drawings for prizes.  There will be prizes given at the end of each nine weeks.  WMS virtual students are also eligible to win.

6th Grade

Timothy Freeman and Katelyn Frasier (not pictured)

7th Grade

Amara Locke and Cadin Pearson

8th Grade

McKayla Harvey, Hannah Gentry and Key Harris (not pictured)

Keep checking in on the library's Google classroom and doing those lessons for your chance to win!

It's Almost Time for Some Prizes

I'm so happy so many of you are checking in on our library Google classroom. I thought I would have a contest, of sorts, to reward this participation. At the end of each Wit and Wisdom module (roughly nine weeks), the library will have a drawing for a prize. Prizes will be related somehow to the theme and/or books of the module. For each assignment you complete (and not just mark as done), your name will be entered into the drawing. The more you do, the more times your name is entered. The contest is for students of WMS.

To see the prizes being given, check the Google Library Class for your grade!

CLASS CODES

8th Grade 24j6ry2

7th Grade 2zturai

6th Grade ot47was

New Books

I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D

-E-R-we are-meant to be…

A colony that runs independently ...

NEW BOOKS! Check them out!

Students,

Be sure to join the library's Google classroom for your grade.  I will be sharing lessons, collaborative connections to some of your academic classes, reading opportunities and suggestions, contests and more.  You can also find information about library procedures and a link to the online catalog there.

CLASS CODES

8th Grade

24j6ry2 

7th Grade

2zturai

6th Grade

ot47was

Meet Our Other Workers!

Our Tuesday/Friday workers are...

8th GRADE

Amelia

7th GRADE 

Addison

Meet Our Workers!

Our Monday/Thursday library workers are...

8th GRADE

Payton 

7th GRADE

Pyper

6th Grade

Macy and Sadie

Tomorrow, I'll introduce you to our Tuesday/Friday workers.

Well, welcome back, everyone!  It seems like forever since I've seen you all.  I know you're excited to be back at school and able to see your friends.  I know I missed seeing all your faces in April and May.  I hope you had a great summer!

The first couple weeks of school I will be doing an inventory of our collection, so if you still have a book out from the spring please get it to me the next time you're at school.  If you are now a virtual student, just have mom or dad drop it off at the school one day at their earliest convenience.  There are, of course, no fines for these books.

To check and see if you still have out a book and the title of it, please log in to your library account on OPAC.  The instructions for doing so are in the upper right corner of the OPAC page once you click on 'log in'.

To close, if you have not joined the library Google classroom for your grade, please email me for the class code or check with a teacher in your grade.

tyla.creasy@sumnerschools.org

Again, welcome back!  Here's to a great, albeit unusual, year!!!