When we open Google, we love looking at the Google Doodle for the day. Google is opening up its annual contest to students in K-12 to submit a Doodle. The deadline for the contest is December 7, 2015. This year's theme is "What makes me....me" Students can use any medium to create the Doodle: cookie dough, yarn, paint, etc. For more info, see details HERE.
A great big thank you to Sourcebooks and Simon Nicholson for our Author Skype today. Mr. Nicholson, who lives in England, talked to students about his Young Houdini series, his life as a writer, and his work in writing for television. We really appreciate the time Mr. Nicholson spent with us this morning...and we loved seeing the view of the garden out his office window where his daughters' guinea pigs can observe his writing first-hand. We're looking forward to reading the third young Houdini book in 2016. And we love the red cover!
Our BMS Cross Country team placed 2nd in District and three of our runners placed 2nd, 3rd, and 11th individually. Great season.
The BMS Library kicked off its Teen Read Week celebration on Library Snapshot Day today. Over 370 students visited the library in person, and our website had over 201 visits today. Students read books, made digital animations using Pivot, composed music on Mixcraft, played board games, constructed a putt putt golf hole with cardboard, took AR tests and Star Reading tests, worked on Study Island, made origami Halloween figures, and wrote free verse poetry using book titles. Whew! The library is a busy place. Help Bandera High School's National Honor Society by donating coloring books and children's books during Teen Read Week. A plastic bag, a little jello, and candy to indicate parts of the cell, and Mrs. Elrod's class had fun learning science this week.
Get ready for our author Skype. Check out one of Anna Staniszewski's books from our library. Sign up for the author Skype in the library this week. So, there's a reason Mrs. Groff loves her middle schoolers. They are always willing to try something new and explore their interests. This week at Tinker Tuesday a group of students started a Dungeons & Dragons group, one of our 6th grade seamstresses made a purse for her sister, one of our duct tape designers made a wallet for his brother, a group played dominoes, and two students built a keyboard with Little Bits circuits. Sometimes it's nice to put away the technology and have some good old-fashioned fun. |
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