6th Grade Movies

Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson with Lily M., 10th grader

We were so honored to welcome Laurie Halse Anderson at Galloway last week. She spoke in the theater to our 8th, 9th and 10th graders. Lily M. gave her a fabulous introduction and had the opportunity to show Laurie the Speak book trailer she made in eighth grade. Laurie autographed a lot of books and spoke personally with many students. She was entertaining, educational, and gracious to everyone she met. Thank you, Little Shop of Stories for sending her our way. See more photos on our Galloway Library Student Center website.

New Art in Library

Thank you Ms. Daws and the 7th and 8th Grade Intermediate Fine Arts Class for making our new library book ends. They are currently on display in the library. Soon they will spread out and be placed on the bookshelves where near the books they represent. Come see them in the library or take a look at them on our library web page.

Reading Bowl Teams

The ML Team ready to compete

Galloway had three reading bowl teams compete last Saturday, Jan. 11 in the Fulton County Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl competition. Our elementary team, made up of fourth and fifth graders, took second place and is advancing to the next level of competition. Congratulations to them and Ms. Zupancic! Our ML and UL teams did not win, but they had a great time and read a lot of books. Special thanks to our first-ever UL team for fearlessly taking part in the reading bowl without a lot of coaching. Thank you to Ms. Emmons for co-coaching and Ms. Chapman for volunteering at the competition.

The UL Team

Dance Party

Today Ms. Salter's 5th grade researchers read aloud some of the National Geographic articles they wrote about the triangular trade routes. They wrote as if they were reporters who had sailed the "nasty triangle" and were reporting on the slave trade. After they read a few of their articles in the library they had a dance party to celebrate the end of the project. (If you want to know more about the project, see our Nasty Triangle Research Guide.)

Happy day!

I love loading kids up with books before a break! 

Wikipedia Races

It's the end of the day and these upper learning students are having Wikipedia Races. Someone names a random topic (like bananas or sock monkeys) and each competitor clicks "random article" in Wikipedia. From there they click and click to try to be the first to get to the Wikipedia article on that topic. It definitely takes higher-level thinking to make quick connections and navigate through multiple sites. I think I see a tournament in our future!