Media Center Happenings

Be sure to keep up with all we are doing in the media center at our blog at ccesmedia.blogspot.com!

Help Our School Win Money for Technology!

I have been nominated for "Best Teacher in America"! Please consider following this link and voting for me by 'nominating' me as well to help our school win! The $25,000 for technology in the school would be well used!! (There is a voter prize also!) You can nominate once a day per email address through March 31st. The teacher that receives the most nominations can win for the school:
GRAND PRIZE (1): The winning Nominated Teacher ("Winning Teacher") will receive (1) iPad 2 16GB unit and (30) iPod Touch 8GB units for use in Winning Teacher’s classroom. The Winning Teacher’s School will be given $25,000 to be used for technology in the School.

SECOND PRIZE (5): Each Nominated Teacher who is a runner-up (“Runner-up”) will receive (1) iPad 2 16GB unit as well as $1,000 to be used for technology in the School.

VOTER PRIZE (10): 1 iPad 2 16GB to 5 random voters and 1 iPad 2 16 GB to the persons who referred each of them.

Please consider taking a minute and nominating Holly DuBois at Caleb's Creek Elementary in Forsyth County in NC. (Or taking a minute each day!) Thank you!

Media Center Blog

Be sure to keep up with all we are doing in the media center at our blog at ccesmedia.blogspot.com!

Spring 2010 Book Fair is Coming!

Book Fair is coming once again! We will be open during school hours Monday April 12 - Friday April 16th. Family Night will be Thursday, April 15th from 5-7 pm. Preorder pizza with the letter coming home in the Wednesday folder or just come and shop! Students will be completing wish lists as will teachers, so look for those and help build your classroom libraries. See the details here - http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/calebscreek and come shop with us and support our school library at the same time!

North Carolina Children's Book Awards

Every year, students across North Carolina vote from a set of nominees for the best Picture Book and/or the best Junior Book. The votes are counted from our students here at CCES! They have been submitted to the state and I will let you know when we know the final winner from the state. The top vote earner here at CCES was Two Bobbies which received 75 votes out of the total 197 picture book votes. The winner from CCES for junior books was The Willoughbys. All votes for all titles were submitted and will be counted in the final totals. Stay tuned to hear the final winner for the 2010 North Carolina Children's Book Award!

Skyping with the Olympics!

"This was the best thing we have done all year!" is what one student said as they were leaving the media center today. I wish I could take credit for it, but what they had just done was have the opportunity to Skype with the Chief Umpire from the Olympics for Curling!

Rae Kells was kind enough to spend a little over a half hour telling our 3 fifth grade classes about her experiences with curling and with the 2010 Winter Olympics. They had the chance to ask questions, and did they ever! They had so many great questions and we all learned a lot more about curling than we already knew from our research about the different winter Olympic sports and Canada. Questions included what is the weather like in Canada, what kind of shoes do you wear to curl, why is it called curling, is there overtime in curling, and many more. A big thank you to Rae Kells and to Marlo Gaddis in the WSFCS Technology Department for helping set up this great opportunity. The students are still so excited!