Storybook Character Day

Our Specialist Team at Lake Forest decided to dress as a bat character from the Brian Lies series of Bats at the Library and  Bats at the Beach.  

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Lake Forest media center is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a splendid section of books. Stop by the media center and check several from this collection out for reading.

Ms. Haltrecht's favorite book

Ms. Haltrecht's favotire book is The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

How to open an ebook.

We will be offering a school-based professional learning on Thursday, September 26. The topic will be reading ebooks from our library collection. If you want to learn more about opening, reading and other ways to use ebooks with your students, stop by the media center between 2:45 and 3:15 on Sept. 26.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

The media center has a display set up for Hispanic Heritage Month. Feel free to stop by and check a great resource for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Summer Reading Program Celebration

                                  Summer program at Lake Forest ES instills love of reading
Students who completed the school’s Summer Reading Program celebrated with ice cream and books. The media center was open to students every other Tuesday during the summer.

Digital Literacy A Vision of K-12 Students Today

What is Digital Literacy?

Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy includes learning how to use technology's tools. The list of tools is never ending. Educators as well as students must thoughtfully determine which tools are essential to their digital literacy tool kit. Tool kit's vary from one educator to another as they do from one student to another. Once you have mastered a particular tool, move on to another so you can increase your digital power.
Students are wired to learn digitally. They come to us with handhelds practically attached to their limbs. Our obligation is to teach them to become responsible digital citizens as well as discerning users of everything the internet has to offer.

Summer Hours and Reading Challenge

Summer Reading Challenge & Media Center Summer Hours

Two great things are happening at Lake Forest Media Center this summer! First, we will be open from 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM on the following Tuesdays; May 28, June 11 & 25, July 9 & 23. Just have an adult come with you to the media center and you are welcome to check out three to five books every other Tuesday.

The next BIG news is…we will offer a Summer Reading Challenge to all our students. We are challenging you to read ten age appropriate books over the summer to “Stop the Summer Slide”.  Just stop by the media center and pick up a Summer Reading Log to record your book titles and dates. Just return the Summer Reading Log to Ms. Zinsenheim or Ms. Crosby when you return to school on August 12, 2013. If you meet the Summer Reading Challenge, your name and picture will be on the Media Center bulletin board the first month of school with a BIG congratulations on keeping up with your summer reading.

Stop the Summer Slide!

Get ready, our summer reading challenge is coming! Can you stop the Summer Slide? Join other students in reading everyday and recording your results. There will be a reading log to turn in when you return to Lake Forest. We will add all recorded minutes read during the summer and place top reader's names and pictures on a bulletin board outside the media center. Find out more information, by visiting the media center.

April's featured "Favorite" book from Mr. Garrett

Lake Forest counselor, Thomas Garrett shares his favorite book, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. Mr. Garrett  remembers reading this book while he was in elementary school. He is proud of graduating  from the  University of Tennessee.

Using iPads in the Media Center

Our fifth grade students are engaged with iPads in the Web Cafe at Lake Forest Media Center. Check out this week’s featured apps on the blackboard poster in the Web Café.

Our Web Cafe is open and ready for students to use the mini iPads in the media center.  Students were given a tutorial on how to take care and use the mini iPads in the media center. Check our weekly featured Apps for students.

March's Favorite Book Choice

Ms. Bulluck’s favorite book to read while in elementary school was Little House on the Prairie by Laura Wilder Ingalls. 

Check it out from our media center to find out how Laura Wilder and her family lived in the pioneer days.

Read Across America Day celebrated

Lake Forest Elementary hosted volunteers from the Sandy Springs Christian Church on Read Across America Day. Volunteers came into the building to read to classes in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday day. Our students enjoyed the stories read to them during the day.

Ms. Coleman’s fifth grade students work on writing a bibliography for books and websites.  

Citing Our Sources

Ms. Coleman’s 5th grade class is working on writing a bibliography from using books and websites.

Lake Forest kindergarten teacher transforms into a Superhero for her students. Ms. Hamilton reads How to Be a Superhero with her students during Balanced Literacy. Ms. Hamilton is just one of many teachers at Lake Forest Elementary transforming her students into Superheroes by having them embrace the power of reading!

Mr. Oaxaca is reading one of his favorite books, Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. Check it out from the media center and see if it is one of your favorites, too!

Fulton County Technology Fair

Thank you to our students who represented our school today in the Fulton County Technology Fair at Riverwood High School. We are so proud of you. Digital Photography - Solei & Michelle - 3rd Grade project

3D Modeling - Michael & Justin - 5th Grade project

3D Modeling -Kairo - 3rd Grade project

Robotics - Karielys & Miriam - 4th Grade project

Robotics - Sharon & Angeles -5th Grade project

Look What's Coming!

Our media center will be home to something new in the future. Keep checking on the progress of our "Web Cafe". We will be featuring high top tables with a comfortable setting for our students to come and work with mini ipads with a lot of cool apps! It will be the new cool place to hang out in the Lion's Den!