Student Book Review :: The Sixty-eight Rooms

Title: The Sixty-eight Rooms
Author: Marianne Malone
Call Number: FIC MAL
Reviewer: Isabel 
Summary: This book is about a girl named Ruthie. At her school she id going on a field trip to a museum called The Sixty-eight Rooms.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Review: I recommend this book because you really want to keep reading it and there is a lot of cool stuff. I also like it because it is based off a real museum called The Sixty-Eight Rooms.

Student Book Review :: The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

Title: The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Call Number: FIC TAR
Reviewer: LC

Summary: It's about a boy named George, and his sister. They are on the Titanic, which hit an iceberg. Will they make it out in time?

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Review: It has a lot of action.

Week of January 18-22

This week begins internet safety. We will spend this week and next week learning about internet safety from Common Sense Media using a Nearpod lesson. Then, we will continue with internet safety on and off for the remainder of the year.

This week 3rd grade will learn about Rings of Responsibility. These rings are: self, family & friends, and community. Students will reflect on how they are responsible offline, how are they digitally responsible online in these rings and how their actions effect themselves and others.

4th grade will looks at Strong Passwords. We will identify characteristics of strong passwords, apply these characteristics and create new, strong passwords, and create posters to share this information.

5th grade will look at talking safely online. We will analyze private information and why it shouldn't be given out to anyone without parent permission. We also will debate on what to do when someone we don't know asks us for our private information!

Student Book Review :: Home of the Brave

Title: Home of the Brave
Author: Katherine Applegate 
Call Number: FIC APP
Reviewer: Reese


Summary: It is about this boy named Kek and he is from Africa. And he lived with his Dad, Mom And his brother. But him and his Mom were the only ones who survived, and she is missing!

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Review:I recommend this book because it is very interesting to me. And it is very good.

Student Book Review :: Harry Potter Series

Title: Harry Potter Series
Author: J.K Rowling
Call Number: FIC ROW
Reviewer: Maya

Summary: The Harry Potter series is about a boy wizard whose parents have died. Harry's parents were killed by the greatest dark wizard of all time- Voldemort. Harry is the only known wizard to survive the Killing curse that Voldemort kills people with. Harry must defeat Voldemort. He goes to a school too, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry makes friends and enemies.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Review:It is good, magic filled, with horrors for Harry on every turn.

Student Book Review :: Wings of Fire Series

Student Book Review: Wings of Fire Series

Title:The Wings of Fire Series :: The Dragonet Prophecy is #1)
Author: Tui Sutherland
Call Number: FIC SUT
Reviewer: Lukas

Summary: This 5 dragons who want to join a war which will stop everyone's differences. The 5 dragon species our a Mudwing, Sandwing, Nightwing, Seawing, Rainwing. Each have names which are Clay-Mudwing, Sunny-Sandwing, Tsunami-Seawing, Glory-Rainwing, Starlight-Nightwing. If you want to know more about these characters read it and you'll find out.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Review:I like it because it feels like to me a mystery like who are the bad guys in the war and other dragons just lying that their species are the good guys.

Student Book Reviews and Interactive Books

This week in the IMC 4th and 5th graders learned how to fill out a book recommendation and write a book review via Google Docs. We are excited to post these book reviews on the IMC blog. Please check in often to read the reviews. Also you'll find the link to submit a book recommendation on the right hand side of the blog! We love recommendations!



3rd grade learned about a bunch of book series we have that are interactive books. Many books either have you go to a website to play a game or watch a video.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Library Learners! What are your 2016 Reading Resolutions?

This week in the IMC we made 2016 flap books that both reflected on books we read and helped set up our 2016 reading resolutions.

The weather outside is chilly! Warm up with a good book? Need book recommendations? Check out our winter genre spotlight. We are focusing on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Also our January Author Spotlight is Tom Angleberger!