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.
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.
Kindergarten students are learning about the proper care of books from Mr. 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.
Second grade students from Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Ritchie’s classes have been studying landforms in their classrooms.
These classes integrated research skills into their unit by visiting the media center to view a United Streaming video on landforms and then conducting basic research on an educational internet sight.
What a great time we had with children’s book author Mr. Sargent and his friends, Daphne, Emma, Spike, and Tatum. We learned about becoming an author and writing about things that happend in our very own lives. Mr. Sargent writes books about his pets. We were fortunate to hear him share some of his stories.
Daphne, Queen of the Universe, displayed her royalty for us. Spike, Emma, and Tatum were show-offs with their tricks. The way our teachers were loving on the dogs, I’m surprised Mr. Sargent was able to get them back.
Our thanks go out to Ozark Publishing for arranging Mr. Sargent’s visit with us!
Click on the slide show below to view pictures from his visit.
On Tuesday, August 28th, David M. Sargent, Jr. will visit Watwood. Mr. Sargent is a children’s book author from Fayetteville, Arkansas. He has written several stories about his furry friends, who will also visit our school! Mr. Sargent will share stories from his Doggie Tales series, his Feather Tails series, and his Best Friends series. He will have his books for sale and will autograph all books purchased. Look for more information to be coming home during the next few days.
You can click on his name below to visit his website.
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Welcome back for the 2007 – 2008 school year. I’m so excited to see everyone again. I truly believe each year we are together, things just get better and better.
Over the summer, I placed many new books on the shelves. In the Easy section you’ll find a lot of new low level AR books. In the Fiction section, many Caldecott and Newbery Award winning books found a home. The Nonfiction section grew in the 500s as some new dinosaur books have been added to the collection.
Come in and see for yourself all the books that are just waiting to be read!
That’s right! It’s time once again for the book fair, and we are in full swing, or swim, that is! Catch the reading wave and come join in the fun! The book fair will be open Wednesday, March 7th – Friday, March 9th and Tuesday, March 13th – Thursday, March 15th. The final day of the fair we will hold Fantastic Thursday! Anyone who brings in an adult to shop can register for prizes to be given away at the end of the fair. Over 70 prizes will be given away, so come in and register to win! See you on the Book Fair Beach!
