Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Upper Learning Students,

Here's your chance to win a brand new Kindle Fire just for reading a book during winter break! Here's all you need to do.

GET COZY Read a book! Find one at the library, check out a library Kindle, or get one from anywhere you like. Take a look at all of the great choices in the Galloway Library or try out our OverDrive ebooks

GET POSEY Take a selfie of you and the book and caption it. Post it to Twitter with the hashtag #readlax OR just email it to Ms. Kochel

GET CHOSEY The most creative photo/caption (as selected by a team of UL students) will earn the creator a new Kindle Fire. Yay!

The bottom line...we know you are busy and don't have a lot of time to read for fun, so we hope you will take time during this break to relax and read something for your own enjoyment. 

If you have any questions, just let me know. Happy reading!

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

READ Posters Going Up

This year's READ posters are going up today. They were created by the Unbound Book Club (5th-8th graders) and also by some Upper Learning students. Thank you to the library interns for their fabulous Photoshopping (Kat and Shawn) and also for exceptional height (John). Come to the library and see them all soon!

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Hunger Games Reaping Friday

It's time for the annual reaping. Twelve tributes will be chosen to compete in the Hunger Games on Friday, November 20. The last tribute standing will win movie tickets to any movie of their choice. Put your name in the jar in the library and come to the courtyard on Friday at noon!

Monday, November 9, 2015

Reading Survey Results

The results from the Middle Learning Reading Survey are in! You can see them in this infographic that was made with Piktochart. The good news is that 75% of students said reading is important. The surprising news is that the majority of students would rather read a paper book than an eBook. And it's no surprise at all that the number one reason students don't read more is "too much homework." Thank you to ML students Emily, Mary, Simone, and Libby for your hard work on this project.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Freedom to Read

This year the library is offering new middle learning electives. This is the Freedom to Read class that just finished their quarter-long class. These girls did amazing work in the library—they created a scavenger hunt for 5th graders, a Dot Day bulletin board for the EL library, author signs for our author visits, book displays, and they also surveyed ML students about their reading habits. (Look for their survey results soon on this blog soon.) Last week they took library books to the ML commons and had book checkout at lunch. They were a fabulous group to work with and I will miss them in the library.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Halloween Poetry Reading

This year the fall UL poetry reading will have a Halloween theme. All students and faculty are invited to come enjoy some nutella and croissants and some creepy poems. Feel free to come listen or to read a poem. This poetry reading is sponsored by the Creative Writing Club and will take place on Friday, Oct. 23 at 8:30 a.m. in the library.

Monday, August 31, 2015

Time to Be Sorted!

September 1st is the first day of school at Hogwarts, and in honor of this occasion you have the opportunity to be sorted into a Galloway House. Are you a Mathisdor, a Crarypuff, a Jemsbyrin, or a Redmondclaw?



Take the quiz to find out...then come to the library on Tuesday, Sept. 1 and put your name in your house jar. At town meeting we will draw names to see who are chosen as prefects from each house (and prefects get a prize!) 


Please share this link on social media so all UL students see it!

Friday, May 29, 2015

Summer Checkout

Returning Galloway students can check out books for the summer. Just stop by the library this week or even next week. ML and UL students can take up to 25 books and EL students can choose up to 10 books. And if you prefer audio or eBooks, remember to try out Follett Shelf or OverDrive. Get the information you need to use these services here: http://gallowaylibrary.weebly.com/ebooks-and-audiobooks.html

Friday, May 8, 2015

Summer Reading

The school year is almost over and we are busy planning for summer reading. Our goal is to encourage students and staff to read for fun this summer! Students in 4th-12th grades have some required reading, so check out our website and find out what needs to be read. Middle and Upper Learning students have all been signing up for summer book clubs and that information is on the website as well. UL students taking AP courses next year should also be sure to check the website for information. Summer Reading Website Link

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Ridley Pearson at Galloway

Ridley Pearson with some high school fans
On Friday Galloway hosted author Ridley Pearson, author of the Kingdom Keepers series. He fascinated the students with his stories of wandering around Disney parks after dark. This was Ridley Pearson's third visit to The Galloway School and it is always a pleasure to host him here. Thank you to FoxTale Book Shoppe for sending us this wonderful author.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Andrew Smith at Galloway

It was a great thrill to welcome author Andrew Smith to Galloway this week. He spoke with our 10th and 11th graders about his writing career and his novels. Smith, a high school English teacher for 23 years, is on tour promoting The Alex Crow. He also talked to the students about his 2014 book Grasshopper Jungle, which is being made into a movie. Many students purchased autographed books. The Galloway library has copies of all of Smith's titles as well. Thanks to the Little Shop of Stories for sponsoring this visit.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers

The nominees for next year's Georgia Peach Book Award have now been announced. The committee met yesterday and released the titles. It was my third and final year serving on this committee, and as always, it was a great day of talking about books. Galloway has almost all of these in the library now, so feel free to come and get them. Take a closer look on our library Pinterest board.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Buddy Photos


Created with flickr slideshow.


Today Galloway's buddy groups took photos all over campus. Take a look at how much fun they had. They were able to take pictures in the following categories:


  1. Show you and your buddies performing an amazing physical feat (sports or otherwise).
  2. Best team selfie (includes all buddies in your group)
  3. Oxymoron: do something in a place where you wouldn’t normally 
  4. do it
  5. Parkour: show off your parkour skills by jumping over an object in style
  6. Get a photo with a Galloway faculty or staff member. Funniest photo wins.
  7. Take a picture of your group doing something unusual in the library (EL library, Portal, or ML/UL Library)
  8. Team up with another group to form a pyramid.
  9. Stage a classic “That’s So Galloway” photograph that admission would love to use.
  10. Read a book somewhere that no one has read before.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

We have an app!

We are very excited to announce that The Galloway Library App is ready for use! It is a handy way to get directly to all of our digital resources, including the library catalog, databases, eBooks and audiobooks, NoodleTools, Research Guides and more.

At the bottom of the screen you can see the Twitter feeds for Early Learning and Middle/Upper Learning, our Pinterest page, and a gallery of photos.

In addition to our app, there are numerous other free apps that can help you with your research and reading. Use our app to locate all those handy apps you might find useful.

This app was developed and designed by Library Intern and Galloway Senior Jack Walz. Please CLICK HERE to download the app to your device.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Reading Bowl Teams Compete

The ML Team: Anna, Talia, Rachel, Ms. Kochel, Ethan, Emi,
Ms. Hunter, and Julia
On Saturday, January 24, Galloway's ML and UL Reading Bowl Teams competed in the Fulton County Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Competition at Riverwood High School. ML was respresented by a team made up of four sixth graders and two eighth graders. The ML team won several rounds and took fifth place out of 14 teams.
The UL Team: Cameron, Sophia, Molly, John, and Jennifer
The UL team, consisting of five UL students, took fourth place in the high school division. All the team members read some new and interesting books and enjoyed spending the day with other students who love to read.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

We are excited about our new carpet and paint, but also about our new media stations. We now have four TVs set up for screen sharing in the Library and Portal. Students can work in small groups and share the screens using AirPlay. Here you see Mr. Boswell's 6th graders being the first to try out our mobile media cart as they plan a group presentation about our library's databases.