Little Lions' Tech Club

Little Lions' Tech Club finished up last Thursday, Dec. 6 with our school technology competition. Certificates were presented to all members of the club and projects were demonstrated to parents, classmates, and teachers. The following students will go on the county level technology completion in January at Riverwood high School. We wish them luck! 3-D Modeling representative

s: Michael & Justin from Ms. Russillo’s 5th grade and Kario from Ms. Ramsey’s 3rd grade. Robotics representatives: Angeles from Mr. Grossman’s 5th grade, Sharon from Mr. James’ 4th grade, Karielys and Miriam from Ms. Jackson’s 4th grade Digital Photography representatives: Solei & Michelle from Ms. Ramsey’s 3rd grade and Silvia from Mr. Grossman’s 5th grade.

Scholastic Book Fair is Here!

Stop by and visit the Scholastic Book Fair in the media center. There are so many great books to choose from the fair. We will be open Thursday night from 5-6 Pm for parents to visit before the PTA meeting and the 2nd grade performance.

Lake Forest Technology Competition is Thursday, Dec. 6 in the media center from 2:30 -3:30 PM. Stop by to see how our students have used technology to create 3-D Modeling projects, robotics with moving legs or head, and digital photography presented in a PowerPoint. Our 3rd, 4th & 5th grade students have been working for weeks after school to create these projects. So, come and visit our technology competition on Thursday, Dec. 6th.

Scholastic Book Fair is Coming!! Get ready, we will have our Scholastic Book Fair Dec. 10 -14. This is a great opporuntity to buy your favorite paperback books and support our school. All proceeds goes into our media center. In the past, we have purchased new books to add to our collection, new equipment for teachers to use in their classrooms, and online resourced for our students. Please, come out and visit our book fair and help support our school. There are so many books to choose from the book fair.

Community Guest Readers at Lake Forest

There are many community guest readers from the Sandy Springs Christian Church who volunteer to read to kindergarten and first grade classes once a month. Ms. Thompson's kindergarten class enjoyed Ms. Ruth Brown reading one of her favorite books to the class the second week of November. We love our community v

olunteers.

5th Graders researching in media center

Ms. Coleman's 5th grade class is using Britannica Encyclopedia online along with printed resources to complete a research project on inventions from the early 1900's.

Each month we will feature a specific genre in books. There is a wonderful display in the front of the media center of different genres. The books on display are from various sections in the media center and students are welcome to check out any book on display in the media center.

Oct. 31 Story Book Character Day

Story Book Character Day was on Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Students and staff dressed as their favorite character from their favorite book. The specialist team dressed as Pete the Cat from Eric Litwin's book, Pete the Cat, I love my white shoes.

Little Lions' Tech Club

Our Little Lions' Tech Club meets every Thursday after school to work on our technology projects which include 3 D-Modeling, Robotics, and Digital Photography. Check out our pictures.

Statistics for October

The media center was very busy during the month of October. We had 4,554 books and materials checked out by students and staff.

October 29, Ann Wells from Assistance League donated hundreds of books to Lake Forest media center as part of Make A Difference Book Project. The purpose of this project is to provide books to students in need.

September Statistics

Last month, we had over 4,495 books and materials checked out from the media center. Second through fifth grade studetns are are allowed to check out two books at a time. Just think, the more you read, the more you learn. Come on little lions...keep reading!

Welcome back to school Lake Forest Lions. Our media center is up and running with current titles to supplement our curriculum. We have the best informational text in our nonfiction section. Remember you can visit our online catalog anywhere, anytime you have access to the Internet. Just click on http://fcsdestiny.fultonschools.org then click on Lake Forest Elementary. We also have e books which can be read online. Just look under our home page of the online catalog topic “e Books” . We look forward to seeing you in the media center.

ebooks are here!

Check out our Home page under the catalog link. It is on the right side on the Home page. There is a link for e Books. Notice there are two links. One for follettshelf and one for Lerner Books. They both have the same login of username"lakeforest" and password "lions". Feel free to read ebooks while on your computer.