Congratulations to our Spelling Bee practice winners!

Congratulations to the students who completed the Spell Check practice and won brand new books so far: Haran K., Angela T., Caroline W., and Taylor T.

There will be more practice puzzles starting next week. Turn in your puzzle to Mrs. R for a chance to win!
The Spelling Bee is coming up in Communication Arts classes, so make sure to keep practicing!

2011 World Champions

Congratulations to the St. Louis Cardinals on their 11th World Championship!
In honor of the Cardinal win, we have a display of Cardinal and baseball books for every baseball fan. Come check one out today!

Book Trailer for Wonderstruck

Brian Selznick, the author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, has an awesome new book out! Listen to him talk about what Wonderstruck is about, and what he likes about creating new books.

Wonderstruck video

More in the 39 Clues series!

I thought that the idea of having multiple authors each write a book for the 39 clues series was genius! Apparently, they did too, because now they're coming out with a spin-off of the series- Cahills vs. Vespers.
The first book is already out, but check out the website at http://www.the39clues.com/areyouready . The video is really awesome, and it looks like there are some fun games to play on the site.

Hunger Games Trailer

Here is the newly released Hunger Games trailer. It is pretty good, but I wish it were longer! I only hope the movie can live up to the awesomeness of the book!

Welcome Back

Welcome back Jr. Longhorns! We are excited to see you in the Library. We look forward to seeing 7th and 8th grade students this week and 6th grade students next week for Orientation.

Don't forget about the W.R.A.P. Readers' Incentive program. You can take quizzes for the books at http://www.quia.com/pages/kruzicka26/page1
Sign in:

Username: firstnamelastname928 (example: johndoe928)
Password: your student number (email Mrs. R if you don't know what it is)

Hunger Games movie

Trailer for Hugo based on The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Authors at St. Louis County Library

Two exciting young adult authors are scheduled to visit the St. Louis County Library Headquarters.

Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries and Queen of Babble, will talk about her new book Overbite on Friday, July 15 at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

Maggie Stiefvater, author of the Wolves of Mercy trilogy (Linger, Shiver, and Forever), will talk about the final book in the series on Thursday, July 28 at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

St. Louis County Library Headquarters is located at 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63131

What's "Pottermore"?

Finally! Some real news about what Pottermore is. If you watch the video of J.K. Rowling, she explains that it is an extension of the books. It sounds like it will have content that was not included in the book as well as games and discussion boards.

It sounds like fun, so I'm registering even though you can't get in yet. I'll let you know if it's any good once they open up the site.

Read During Summer Break = Earn Prizes during the year!

Want to enjoy some good summer reading while at the pool, the beach, in the car, a plane ride, or just sitting at home?
You should definitely participate in our West Middle Readers' Achievement Program (W.R.A.P.)!
All incoming 6th, 7th, and 8th graders can read any combination of the 2011-2012 Mark Twain, Truman, or Gateway nominees to earn prizes during the school year.

It's simple, just read one of the books on the list (see the links on the right sidebar), go to the Quia website, take the quiz, earn a 70% or better, and repeat with other books! If you read 3 books and pass the quizzes before Aug. 19, you will earn a back to school prize!

Directions:
Go to http://www.quia.com/pages/kruzicka26/page1
Sign in:

Username: firstnamelastname928 (example: johndoe928)
Password: your student number (email Mrs. R if you don't know what it is)

Click on the quiz(zes) you want to take, answer the questions, and qualify!
Happy Reading!

Your books are Overdue

The last day to turn in books was Friday, May 13. So if you still have books checked out to you, they are overdue.

To get off Mrs. R's overdue list, all you have to do it turn them in. 

Let's W.R.A.P. it up!

The West Readers' Achievement Program was a huge success!

Let's break down some numbers:
118 students participated
947 quizzes were taken
44 students received 3rd place prizes
27 students received 2nd place prizes
22 students received 1st place prizes
15 students received the GRAND PRIZE

This just goes to show you that West Reads Best!
Look for next year's quizzes coming to Quia at the end of May!

April Showers

The past few weeks have been busy in the Library Media Center!

We celebrated our WRAP third cycle readers with an Ice Cream Social during lunch in early April. It was a lot of fun!

Don't forget that the final deadline for the WRAP incentive program is April 30! 

Despite MAP testing, we had a lot of visitors finding new books and researching.

Mrs. Marcum's classes working on Biography project:

Book Fair Successful!

Thanks to everyone who attended the Book Fair last week! We had a wonderful time looking through all of the new books. You'll be able to check out some of them in our Library soon!
Thanks to all of our PTO parent volunteers.` We couldn't have done it without you!

Here are some pictures from the Book Fair:

Book Fair Feb. 14-17 @ WM Library

The Scholastic Book Fair will be at the West Middle Library next week!

Please join us at the Book Fair during school hours or during Parent Teacher Conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday!

Watch some of the preview videos:

Ms. Eisele's classes using Glogster!

Ms. Eisele's classes are finished working on their Biome Project. We had a great time researching in the Library. Here are some pictures of us in "research mode":

For this project, we used Glogster, which was a unique and fun way to make an interactive poster. We had a ton of fun creating our posters!

 Here is Jack and Sophia's poster: