Summer Checkout

It's that time of year again—time to return your library books. All student materials are due on Friday, May 18. You will be receiving overdue notices from teachers or via First Class this week. Students with outstanding books or fines will not receive yearbooks, so please get your books, magazines, and Kindles turned in soon. We will once again offer summer checkout starting on Tuesday, May 29. Returning Middle and Upper Learning students can check out up to 25 books to read over the summer. Click here for the summer reading form and more information.

New Portrait in the Library

If you have been in the library this week you have seen the new portrait of Elliott Galloway painted by middle learning art teacher Liz Daws. Thank you, Ms. Daws—it is beautiful and gives the library a whole new look.

Some famous poets visited Ms. Chapman's 8th grade language arts classes today. Here you see Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, Shel Silverstein, Edgar Allen Poe, William Carlos Williams, e.e. cummings, and Tupac Shakur. They each gave a presentation about their lives and recited some of their poetry. If you want to see some 8th grade students' scrapbooks about poets, come see them on display in the Galloway Library. Great job, poets!

Sharon Draper & Ridley Pearson

What a day we had today—first we had Sharon Draper talking to fifth graders then we had Ridley Pearson talking to sixth graders. Both of them were engaging speakers and had the kids hanging on every word they said. And both have written excellent books for young people. It was a wonderful day and we thank the Little Shop of Stories for sending them to us. For more photos of these authors, see our author/illustrator photo gallery. 

Two Authors This Week

Galloway Middle Learning is hosting two authors on Thursday, May 3. First we have Sharon Draper speaking to our Mrs. Hilleary's 5th graders about her book Out of My Mind. Then we have Ridley Pearson talking with Ms. Starkman's 6th graders about the latest book in the Kingdom Keepers series. It's going to be an incredible day—and we thank our fabulous local bookstore, The Little Shop of Stories, for sending them our way.

April is National Poetry Month

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a book spine poem. This one was made by a 6th grader in Ms. Starkman's class. Make one in the library or e-mail a photo of your poem to Ms. Kochel. Anyone who makes a poem for us this month will get a prize!

We Survived!

The All Night Read In was a blast. We read a lot of books, played capture the flag at midnight, heard the library ghost story, roasted marshmallows at 3 a.m., and some people even got a little bit of sleep. Lots of photos are here in the photo gallery. Thank you Mr. Dyer, Ms. Starkman, and Noah for being our chaperones. And thanks to the 38 middle learning students who made it so much fun.