Holy Bagumba! Our First Mock Newbery Book.

Mock Newbery groups are forming this month at Prairie Creek Intermediate.

What is a Mock Newbery group? These groups will follow the procedures of the actual Newbery committee. We will read a set of great books published this year, use a version of the official criteria to evaluate these titles, and vote to decide the books we think should win.  In January we'll compare our results to the official Newbery winning books.

Our first title for consideration is Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo.



More titles coming soon.

Book Fair needs you!

The next Scholastic Book Fair is coming in November and we are looking for a Student Crew. What does the Student Crew do? Watch this video for details.
Pick up a volunteer form in the library.

Animation Club

Do you have a story idea?  Would you like to turn that idea into a short animated movie?

Mr. Cox and Ms. Kline are offering the Creek Animation Club for all interested students.  We held information sessions this week. If you missed these meeting don't worry!  Below are the videos we showed about each medium.

Club members have two options for creating their stories.

Stop Motion Animation

SCRATCH

Sign up for the club here: http://tinyurl.com/creekanimationclub

The first creative meetings are scheduled!

5th grade - Wednesday, Sept. 11th during recess and lunch.

6th grade - Monday, Sept. 16th during recess and lunch.

Are you ready for a Zombie invasion?

Visitng Mrs. Anderson's class

I am learning how to use Vine. This one is way too fast. Enjoy the book tour of Mrs. Anderson's 6th grade class.

Runaway gami

The fantastic 6th graders in Mrs. Becicka's class are already creating cool stuff. Here is a Gami McKenzie and Shelby made about the book Runaway.


 

Coding

To kick off the new school year we've been viewing this video in our Library & Technology class.

We've had amazing discussions.  Do I see a future group of coders in our building?  Absolutely!



We have plans to use Scratch and I can see us relying on Codeacademy too.