Wednesday’s Winners

April 14, 2010 | General

Wednesday the National Library Week basket winners were Rhiannon Hagen & Breanna Doyle.  The puzzle winners were Elaina Raab & Emily Knight.  Please stop in the LRC to claim your prizes.

Tuesday’s Winners

April 14, 2010 | General

National Library Week basket winners for Tuesday were Matthew Walters & Chelsea Havens.  The puzzle winners were Clayton Wiersema & James Morgan.  Please stop in the LRC to claim your prizes.

Monday’s Winners

April 12, 2010 | General

It’s National Library Week!  Stop in the LRC to do a puzzle and sign up for gift baskets.  Also, library fines are half off this week.  See the LRC website for more details.   Monday the basket winners were Liz Ottens & Colleen Ware.  The puzzle winners were Nathan Bielema & Morgan Sanquist.  Please stop in to claim your prizes.

National Library Week (April 12-16)

April 8, 2010 | General

“Sail into the LRC for a good book!”

During National Library Week:

1.  Do a daily puzzle and recieve a piece of candy.  If you have the correct answer, you will be entered in a prize drawing.

2.  Sign up for the daily gift basket drawings.

3.  Pay your fines during National Library Week and only pay half!

Country Project Scavenger Hunt

April 8, 2010 | General

Number 1-30 on your paper.  Using the completed country projects, located in my project folder in the P drive, answer the following question for each clue.  You can’t use the internet to answer these.  If you use the internet you will get an automatic zero and will be asked to log off.

Where am I…….Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Columbia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Venezuela or Argentina?

1.  Guacho Country (wind-blown prairie)

2.  Mar del Plata

3.  San Juan

4.  Bogota Plaza Summit Hotel

5.  Valle de la Luna

6.  Religion: Roman Catholic & Santeria

7.  Famous Disco “Casapueblo”

8.  Population of 16,000,000

9.  Cozumel

10.  Incan Ruins

11.  Guayaquil

12.  Tropical Martime Country

13.  San Jose

14.  Currency: Bolivar

15.  Malecon Boardwalk

16.  Easter Island

17.  Angel Falls

18.  US Territory

19.  Chichen Itza Tour

20.  Bellamar Caves

21.  Active volcano 90 miles from the capital city

22.  Home of the second largest port in the western hemisphere

23.  Nickname: “The Endless Summer”

24.  82 is the average temp.

25.  Organic cocoa beans are a main source of income

26.  The Beach Frontier

27.  Montevideo

28.  Havana

29.  Santa Domingo

30.  Coco Boutique Hotel

Check out the Spanish 1 link!

March 16, 2010 | General

Did you miss class or forget what the assignment is?  Click on the Spanish 1 page up above to see what you missed.

The 2011 Abe Lincoln List is here!!!

March 16, 2010 | General

2011 Nominees

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian — Sherman Alexie
Artichoke’s Heart – Suzanne Supplee
Boot Camp — Todd Strasser
Deadline — Chris Crutcher
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks — E. Lockhart
Elsewhere — Gabrielle Zevin
Evermore: the Immortals — Alyson Noel
Graceling — Kristin Cashore
Hold Tight – Harlan Coben
House Rules: a Memoir — Rachel Sontag
Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Jerk, California –- Jonathan Friesen
Just Listen — Sarah Dessen
Paper Towns — John Greene
Perfect Chemistry — Simone Elkeles
Right Behind You — Gale Giles
Rucker Park Setup — Paul Volponi
Spanking Shakespeare — Jake Wizner
Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
Twisted — Laurie Halse Anderson
Unwind – Neal Shusterman
Wake — Lisa McMann

Welcome

August 29, 2009 | General

Check out my new site!  It is still a work in progress……