09.28.07
Posted in For Teachers and Students at 2:54 pm by Kitty Forbus
First grade students spent the week learning to locate specific books in the 
Easy section of the media center. They learned that books are shelved in alphabetical order by the author’s last name in both the Easy and Fiction sections. Students also identified the appropriate shelf to search if they had written a book that was housed in our media center.
The classes discussed some of their favorite authors and how to find books by that author. The students pictured are completing a cut and paste activity practicing alphabetical order.
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09.19.07
Posted in For Teachers and Students at 2:29 pm by Kitty Forbus
Second grade students in Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Ritchie’s classrooms visited the media center during their Constitution Day studies. Students visited the website www.constitutioncenter.org and completed an activity to restore the wording in the Bill of Rights. The activity allowed students to identify the rights that the people of Freeville were exercising in their daily activites.
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09.12.07
Posted in For Parents at 9:13 am by Kitty Forbus
Did you know that as residents of Alabama we have access to the wonderful resources within the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL)? The AVL site provides us with encyclopedias, thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, books, maps, pictures, links to thousand of internet sites, and many other resources. All of this is FREE to the people of our state. The AVL can be accessed in public schools, public libraries, and you can use it at home if you have internet access and an AVL card. You can obtain a card from the public library or from your school library media center. If you are interested in obtaining a card, send a note to your child’s teacher. A card will be issued from our school’s media center in your child’s name. Cards should be renewed every three years before the expiration date. Renewals can be done at your child’s school.
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09.11.07
Posted in For Teachers and Students at 12:03 pm by Kitty Forbus
Watwood will celebrate Grandparents’ Day this Friday, September 14th, from 1:00-2:00. I hope you are making plans to visit and participate in the afternoon’s activities. If you would like to honor the day by reading a good book with your grandchild, let me suggest a few that can be found in our media center.
Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
Grampy’s Bad Day by Dominique Demers
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting
The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
Just Grandpa and Me by Mercer Mayer
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09.04.07
Posted in For Teachers and Students at 8:20 am by Kitty Forbus
Kindergarten students are learning about the proper care of books from M
r. Wiggle. He is a bookworm who lives in a book that has been mistreated by its readers. By sharing his story, Mr. Wiggle hopes to educate kindergarten students on how to take care of books properly. Pictured are students from Mrs. Humber’s class with the Mr. Wiggle puppets they made.
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