Monday, May 18, 2015

SUMMER READING

CHECK OUT HCMS LIBRARY BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING!

WHAT?

THAT'S RIGHT!  YOU CAN CHECK OUT UP TO 10 BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY TO KEEP AND READ OVER THE SUMMER. 

YOU JUST HAVE TO RETURN THEM IN AUGUST DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL.

HOW?
1) RETURN ALL LIBRARY BOOKS
2) PAY ANY FINES FOR LOST OR DAMAGED BOOKS
3) RETURN SUMMER READING PERMISSION SLIP
4) CHECK OUT BOOK THE LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

CLICK HERE FOR THE PERMISSION SLIP.
(or come and get one from the library)



Friday, May 15, 2015

TEXAS TEEN BOOK FESTIVAL - KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED!

Texas Teen Book Festival 2015!
(as reported by BookPeople)

It’s that time of year again – time to gear up for the Texas Teen Book Festival! The announcements of the awesome authors attending the 2015 festival are starting to come out. Today, it was announced that Sonia Manzano, known to many people as “Maria” on Sesame Street, will be the keynote speaker!!!!


Manzano will be talking about her upcoming memoir, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx. We are so excited by this news! It is a great start and can’t wait to hear who else will be coming to Austin this fall.

To start planning your visit, information about attending this year’s festival is up, and you can keep it tuned here for author line up & programming announcements.

New for this year, is a fiction writing contest sponsored by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. You know Delacorte as the publisher of Carrie Ryan (The Forest of Hands & Teeth), James Dashner (The Maze Runner), Matt De La Pena (The Hunted), Ann Brashares (The Here and Now), Frank Portman (King Dork), and Libba Bray (Going Bovine). Delacorte’s got YA chops, to be sure. There is a deadline – July 1! – so be sure to check out all the rules and entry form. Good luck and happy writing!
Are you excited yet?? You should be!!

Get the news first by following TTBF online:
http://texasteenbookfestival.org/
#TTBF15
@TXTEENBOOKFEST
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Texas Teen Book Festival (formerly the Austin Teen Book Festival) happens on Saturday, September 26, 2015 on the campus of St. Edward’s University. This event – and parking – is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Book Inspired Nail Art

Check out EPIC READS nail art inspired by a popular YA series!

 nailart-dorothy
 Click the picture to see the full article and how to video

Now we want you to create your own nail art designs inspired by your favorite books!  Take a picture and email it to us.  
 Also post it on Instagram and tag #EpicReadsNailArt & @hcms_library

 

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

SPRING BOOK 2015

We challenged HCMS students and teachers to document where they read this Spring Break.


Take a look at our interactive map below to see where we read.

Just click on the pins for more information and pictures.







TEEN TECH WEEK 2015

We had a blast @ the HCMS Library during Teen Tech Week!

This year's theme was "Libraries Are For Making"

So we made!

We held the TTW events in the library 
during each of the 3 lunches.  


Students were greeted with the Info and encouraged to sign up as they 
entered the library doors.  Sign up sheets lived at the circulation desk, 
allowing the first 25 students from each lunch per day to sign up.
When they signed up, we issued them a pass that they would
keep all week (see below).


MONDAY: TECH JEWELRY
We used keys from old keyboards to create rings, pins, and magnets.
We used ring bases, pin backs, large rolls of magnetic tape, hot glue, & plyers.


TUESDAY: BOOK TRAILERS/BOOK TALKS
Jeni created a tip sheet for creating book trailers and showed a couple
of examples before the kids got started.  All of our students have iPads, 
so were encouraged to create their book trailer with the device.


WEDNESDAY: CASSETTE TAPE JOURNAL
I saw a couple of cool posts on Pinterest about repurposing old cassette tapes into
journals.  And seeing as I'd already weeded all of my old cassette tape audiobooks
out of our library, I purchased hundreds of old cassette tapes (audiobooks) from
some guy on Craigslist for $25.  We used chipboard for our back, blank & lined
paper for our journal paper, and bound it with small, colored, zip ties.  
We had tons of washi tape, duct tape, and colored permanent markers available
for the students to decorate their journals.


THURSDAY: PAC-MAN
Throwback Thursday lent itself to an old-school game...Pac-Man!
I found some plug and play Pac-Man consoles on Amazon and we plugged
them into our projectors and set up our big screens and had fun playing!
I also found some free Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man apps for the students
to download onto their iPads to play.
My mom made over 100, pac-man shaped sugar cookies (Thanks, Mommy!) 
for the teens to decorate and eat.  I think some of them signed up just
for the cookies, but ended up staying and enjoying playing Pac-Man.




Friday, March 6, 2015

TEEN TECH WEEK


TEEN TECH WEEK
MARCH 9 - 12
LIBRARIES ARE FOR MAKING

Sign up in the Library TODAY!
Spaces are limited!


Fit Fest is coming SOON!!

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

WHERE ARE YOU READING 
THIS SPRING BREAK?

Reading makes your smarter.
It's just true.

So don't forget to bring a book along this Spring Break, 
no matter where you're going.

Send us pictures of where you're reading over the break
and we'll add them to our cool, interactive map.

And, oh yeah, you can win prizes!



Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Read-A-Thon!


The Read-A-Thon is here! Read and log pages, ask for pledges, and you'll help out a school in need. The Read-A-Thon starts on January 26th and ends on February 6th. The top-performing class from each grade wins a PIZZA PARTY! And... anyone who raises $20 or more is entered into a raffle for cupcakes and gift cards. Don't forget - the top 10 students at HCMS will go on a field trip to visit one of the schools that benefits from the Read-A-Thon!!