The Literary Festival is coming!

  • Meet authors Fred Bowen (TJ's Secret Pitch and other sports chapter books) on Tue, May 13th, Audrey Penn (The Kissing Hand ; the Blackbeard's Ghost trilogy) on Thur, May 15th, and Eric Klug (The Monster in My Closet ) on Fri, May 16th. See the complete schedule here.
  • Enter the contests to win lunch with one of the authors.  The entry forms are here (Bowen / Penn / Klug).
  • Get in your order to buy an autographed copy of one of their books! (Bowen / Penn / Klug)

 

  • Latest News - more Student Book Reviews!
  • Oct News - the Black Eyed Susan program is up and running. Read all about it here and here.  And make sure you're surfing the internset safely by checking out these resources!
  • Sept News - We are off to another exciting start in the Media Center this school year! Some things are the same - Ms. Safford is still pushing books, kids are still loving reading - but some things have changed:
    • There is a new face at the checkout desk. Stonegate's own Mrs. Poole has joined the Media Center Staff as the Media Assistant. She is enjoying checking out books and talking to the students about what they like to read.
    • Our schedule has changed, and we now work on an A Week/B Week schedule. All classes visit the media center on A Week. On B Week classroom teachers collaborate with the Media Center staff to help students complete curricular activities and projects. We are already looking forward to research on government, patriotic symbols, plants, and author Patricia Polacco!
    • We are experimenting with Before-School Checkout between 8:30 and 8:45. One of the patrols is going out front and into the All-Purpose room and out front to choose 10 students who need to exchange books. We hope that this will help those voracious readers who need to get books more than once a week!
    • Reliable, child-friendly, safe online resources are available again this year for Stonegate students to use at home. Here's the list. Please contact Ms. Safford to get the logons and passwords.