Tuesday, December 11, 2012

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.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

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.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

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.