Icenhower Intermediate Library

Huskies Celebrate Open House with Book Fair Luau!

Aloha, and welcome to Book Fair Luau at The Ice House!  Huskies and their families enjoyed Open House and spent time reading and shopping at the Book Fair Luau on Thursday, March 22, 2012. Fun Hawaiian decorations and relaxing island music greeted everyone as they spent time among the lighted palm trees, fishing nets and tropical flowers while enjoying beautiful new books from Scholastic.

There was also a 'Guess the Number of Starfish' contest, which was won by Zhane Haskins, 5th grader on Team Iditarod!  Zhane got to pick out $20 worth of merchandise from the Book Fair!  A big Hawaiian Mahalo (Thank You) go our PTA for their generous donation of the prize!

Schooled

On Friday, February 03, students were surprised by a visit from Capricorn "Cap" Anderson during their lunches.  Cap, the main character from the book Schooled,  came to hang out with students at Mary Lillard Intermediate.  Schooled is a book written by Gordon Korman that is being used for our Read it Forward program district wide at the intermediate level.  Students who have read the book, passed a short comprehension test, and participated in the online survey are considered "Schooled".  They then pass one of the 100+ copies of the book along to another student on our campus.  "Schooled" students at MLIS will have a variety of activities in which to participate in the following months.

Carolee Wilson
Lillard Intermediate

Google Earth meets Prezi in the MLIS Library!

I had the opportunity to attend TCEA's Virtual Technology Conference this past week.  While watching a session on Google Earth, the presenter was sharing how to embed student created projects into a pin on Google Earth.  At the time, Language Arts and Socials Studies teacher Mrs. Martinez had a group of her students in the library researching countries.  She had told me they were putting their research information into a Prezi.  I looked up  Prezi to see if what I had learned would work with the program and it would!  I shared it with Mrs. Martinez.  She got excited about it and asked if I would show all of her students how to do it.  I quickly made a handout with the steps and showed all the classes.  Now, when the students present their project, they will begin with a saved Google Earth file.  When it opens, it will zoom to their country so all students will have a visual of where the country is located, what it looks like, etc. and they will launch their Prezi from there. 

I love learning new things and sharing with my faculty and students!

Carolee Wilson
Lillard Intermediate