Puzzle of the Month

The Puzzle of the Month for October was, fittingly, one featuring the works of Edgar Allan Poe.  Students are able to spend a few minutes working on a featured 1,000 piece puzzle during class visits to the library.  This is the third puzzle completed by students this year.  

The finished product

Students in Mrs. Lake's class work on the puzzle during a recent class visit.

Avery and Sadie placing the last pieces.

Library Google Class Winners

At the end of each nine weeks the library gives out prizes to a student in each grade for participating in library Google class activities.  For each activity a student completes, his or her name is entered into a drawing.  The more activities done, the more chances to win!

Winners of the first drawing of the year are...

8th Grade

Trevor

During the first nine weeks, Eighth-grade students read and studied Kwame Alexander's The Crossover in ELA.

Trevor won a new hardcover copy of Mike Lupica's Miracle on 49th Street, Kwame Alexander's Free Write Notebook, an all-access pass to WHS events (thanks for the donation, WHS!) and a coupon book to area restaurants.

7th Grade

Adrianna

Seventh-grade students read about the Middle Ages in ELA during the first nine weeks.

Adrianna won a new, hardcover Classic Starts edition of The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, The Thrifty Guide to Medieval Times: A Handbook for Time Travelers and a coupon book to area restaurants.

6th Grade

Alexa

Sixth-grade students read about the Great Depression in ELA during the first nine weeks.

 Alexa won a new, hardcover copy of Lauren Wolk's Echo Mountain, a coupon book to area restaurants and a bag of candy bars which were originally created during the years of the Great Depression.  

Students, keep checking in on the library's Google class page for activities you can do.  You'll learn lots of great stuff and possibly win lots of great stuff, too!

Above all, keep reading!

Halloween Book Characters

This past Friday, some book characters stopped by the library to help celebrate Halloween.  We had a few Harrys, a Hermoine and Dumbledore from Harry Potter, Thing 1 and 2 from Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, Jack Skellington, Williams Steig's Shrek, Charlotte the spider from E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, the Grim Reaper, characters from Castle Diaries and The Vampire Diaries and several characters from cartoons and animated films.  Do you recognize someone you know?

I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween and were able to read and hear lots of scary ghost stories! 

It's Almost Time for Some Giveways

Don't forget...for each assignment or activity posted to the library Google class you complete, your name gets entered into a drawing for prizes.  You have until Sunday, October 10 to complete things in order to be eligible for the first giveaway.  Prizes for the first nine weeks will be given out the day we return from fall break.

Some lucky 8th grader will win these prizes.  NOT PICTURED is a WHS All Access Event Card, which will allow a person free entry to any game or event held at WHS.  

Similar prizes to be given in 7th and 6th grades.

For Fans of Kwame Alexander

Our eighth-graders have been reading the Newbery-winning book The Crossover by Kwame Alexander during this first nine weeks.  A wonderful novel in verse, it has been well-liked by most everyone.  For anyone wanting to read more fictional works by Alexander, be sure to check out Rebound (the prequel to The Crossover) and Booked.  Finally, be sure to take a look below at two of the newest books we have in our collection which are also by him.

Happy reading!

Join Our Library Google Class

If you have not already, please be sure to join the library Google classroom for your grade.  I will be posting lots of good stuff there throughout the year, especially material aligned with our ELA Wit and Wisdom curriculums and reading promotions.

8th Grade

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7th Grade

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6th Grade

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How to Reserve a Book or Review Your Library Account

Below is a link to our library catalog.  When you visit this site you can:

Search for books

Reserve a book (even those currently checked out)

See the books that are being checked out the most by our students

View new books to our collection

Review your personal library account.  

Check to see if you currently have a book checked out

Check to see the due date of a book you currently have checked out

Check to see if you owe any fines

WMS Online Catalog

Once you get to the site you will need to log in if you wish to review your personal account.  To do this, you will need to enter your lunch number.  If for some reason you are unable to log in, please let me know.

Registration Night Door Prize Winner

During our two registration nights, parents who visited the library were able to enter a drawing to win the book How to Raise a Reader.  Congratulations to our winner, Ms. Christina Moore! Pictured with the book is Ms. Moore's daughter Allison, an 8th grade student here at WMS.

Our library loves promoting reading through contests, projects and programs, so be sure to check here often for more information on such.

"The Good is Close at Hand"

The following is a quote my favorite children’s author Kate DiCamillo shared on her Facebook page one year ago today. She said reading it was a balm to her spirit.

A year ago we were charting new waters at school with virtual and hybrid learning due to the pandemic and, while things are somewhat more normal this year, I still look forward to truly calm seas. I hope you enjoy the following quote as much as Kate and I do.

“All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever; from this it follows that since the bad has lasted for so long a time, the good is close at hand.” —- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.

Meet Our Library Helpers

Every year, two students from each grade are chosen to help out in the library.  Anyone with a strong, dependable work ethic who would like to work in the library is encouraged to contact me at the end of the school year for possible future placement.  Duties include checking in and out books, shelving books, running errands, and other light clerical work. 

These young ladies are our helpers in the library this year.  They will be available to assist you in locating a book and/or checking one in or out during 1st, 2nd or 4th blocks.  

8th GRADE 

Rileigh and Kaleigh

7th GRADE

Sadie and Avery

6th GRADE 

Alexa and Caitlyn

The girls and I hope you stop by often to see us this year!