WOW!

I just checked the IMC schedule for next week and will we be busy! Using IMC computers and/or laptops are: 6th grade Consumer Ed -- 6th & 8th grade Health -- 7 grade Language Arts -- 7th grade Social Studies -- 7th grade Science -- 8th grade Science.

In addition there are book checkout dates for 7th grade Reading (all periods) and 8th grade Advanced Reading. When Mrs. Wilson and I make it to Friday next week, we will really need the following Monday's Casimir Pulaski Day to recuperate.

IT'S TIME TO VOTE!

Voting for the 2012 Rebecca Caudill Book Award takes place during the week of February 21st at Lakeview. 6th graders will vote online on Tuesday in their LA/Reading classes. 7th and 8th graders who qualify may vote any time during the week by seeing Miss Hagensee for a ballot. To be eligible to vote students must have read or listened to at least 3 of the 20 nominated books. Each student gets to vote for one and only one book -- the book they think is the best. Students do not have to have read the book they vote for. Often students will hear about a great book, but not have had a chance to read it before the voting week. Since we use a secret ballot, no one knows who voted for which book. Friday afternoon the Lakeview top 3 voter-getters will be posted Then the Lakeview tally of all votes will be sent to the state committee and by early March we should know who has won the 2012 Caudill Award.

Also next week Miss Hagensee will accept nomination suggestions from all students for the 2014 Caudill Award and pass that information on to the state committee. Nominations must have literary merit, been published within the last 5 years, be of interest to children in grades 4-8, be written by a living author, and have been read by the nominator.

AND THE BEAT GOES ON!

8th grade LA classes have spent the week researching for their 1960s debates. Next week they will continue with the research and begin working on their bibliographies using NoodleBib. NoodleBib is a free online bibliography maker, the same one that Downers South uses. With NoodleBib no longer do you spend hours typing a bibliography. Now you fill in the appropriate date fields and the program generates the bibliography with the proper punctuation. Of course you are responsible for correct spelling and capitalization. There is a link to NoodleBib on the Lakeview Library web page and students are welcome to create their own account.
In addition to the 8th grade LA classes, IMC computers will be used by 8th grade Music on Tuesday and Wednesday, 6th grade Social Studies on Thursday and Friday, and 7th grade Social Studies on Friday. The laptop computers are also in use all next week. Another busy week for the IMC!