Tellagami

Seventh and eighth graders used an app called Tellagami to introduce themselves during the first weeks of school. We all had a lot of fun using this app to create a personal avatar and then placing that avatar in a background important to us. 

Fun with the Green Screen

Fifth graders have been having fun with the green screen! Students wrote their own book talks and we filmed them in front of our green screen. We then used a Green Screen app to apply backgrounds to their videos. 

Book of the Week: Canyons

This post brought to you by student blogger Walsh. 

Do you love action packed fiction books? I do, and if you do too you'll love Canyons by Gary Paulsen, it's about Brennan, a boy that loves to be outside and run. His family is very poor and in the summer he works mowing lawns to pay for his clothes. At the same time in the story but hundreds of years before Brennan was born, a young Native American child named Coyote Runs, was involved in a raid against the Confederate Americans during the civil war. Him and his tribe are living in the Grand Canyon. He dies in the raid and hundreds of years later Brennan goes camping in the Grand Canyon and finds his skull and it gives him lots of visions of the raid. You should read this book to see what Brennan does about having his visions in Canyons by Gary Paulsen.

READ Posters

Eighth graders created their own READ posters based on the celebrity READ posters put out by the American Library Association. Eighth graders got to act as the celebrities in these posters and came up with their own slogans. They took photos using the iPads, and used Pic Collage to put text onto their photos.

Book of the Week: I am Malala

We are starting a feature where students will blog about books they recommend. There may be two or three books featured in a week so we can get through all the great reviews. 

This post brought to you by student blogger Emma.

I am Malala is a great book because it tells a real life story of a girl living in Pakistan when her hometown, and a lot of Pakistan, is taken over with battle and terrorists. These terrorists believe that girls should not go to school like Malala and her friends do, but Malala loves school and is not going to give it up because of some terrorists. She begins to stand up for her beliefs by writing a journal and speaking out against the terrorists, making a difference. She is becoming known everywhere, but when a turn of events take place, her whole world changes.

Welcome to a New School Year!

Welcome to the new school year. My name is Mrs. Adelman and I'm the librarian (library media specialist) at Carondelet. We have lots of new books this school year! Looking forward to sharing them with you. This blog will be a place where we can share library happenings and book recommendations.