Our autumn leaves have been replaced by decorative paper snowflakes! Thanks to all of the middle schoolers who cut out these recycled snowflakes during breaktime. While we had some templates available, many students decided to be creative and try out their own designs!
The entire 6th grade (through Humanities class) is partaking in a very exciting book bingo reading engagement challenge! The challenge asks students to read books from 25 different categories. But these categories go way beyond your usual genres, and include such things as: a book written by someone under 30, a book with a one-word title, and a book set on a different continent. This display will change weekly, and offer book suggestions from all the different categories. On the menu now – all books with one-word titles!
Just before winter break, our Mock Newbery 2019 elective made a zine to celebrate the end of the class! Students worked off of specific books they had read that inspired them, general feelings about reading, and some even created things like word puzzles using the titles of the finalists. A HUGE thank you to ‘zinester’ Emma Karin Eriksson, who came and gave an introduction to zines, and helped facilitate our zine workshop!
We provided zen autumn coloring sheets to our middle school library patrons – the perfect activity for relaxing, and decorating our space! The beautifully colored autumn leaves were taped up in the library.
Before Thanksgiving, we asked Berkeley Carroll middle school faculty & students to write (on a leaf) a book, or author that they were grateful for! As you can see, our library users are thankful for quite a lot of books!
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