Home Stretch

What a year. We are in the home stretch and things are looking great. It's getting warmer; the trees are all green again; MAP is in the books. So as we approach the end of another great school year, let's take a look back at life in the stacks here at HJH.

We had a great turn out for our first Scholastic Book Fair. Several students received a "golden ticket" good for one free book thanks to a great idea from Mr. Allison and a generous donation from Mothers Club.

Amazing author Richard Paul Evans visited the Intermediate and the awesome intermediate librarian, Mrs. Clark, invited us to the Hillsboro Veyniacs assembly and book signing.

Ms. Duggan and Mr. Cruzado took their 8th grade social studies students on a trip to Colonial America through the power of the World Wide Web. Their 21st century "choose your own adventure" lesson culminated with students as Loyalists and Patriots along with a better understanding of that time in history.

Snow; we had a lot of snow. 

www.pixorial.com

Web 2.0 tools made their way through the classes to 8th grade science when Mrs. Burgio and Mr. Sebourn's students used Pixorial for making videos that really rocked. They were studying rocks. Get it. Okay, I'll stop now.



Mrs. Morrison from the guidance department collaborated with the library on a lesson about our digital footprint. It was very eye opening. Be careful what you post; it may come back to haunt you.

Did I mention that there was a lot of snow? 

There was.

Law and order was in the library when Judge Missey visited with our 8th grade social studies students. A good time was had by all and no one went to jail; success story.

We joined with the rest of the district libraries in a district-wide book fair at Barnes & Noble. Junior High art and singing was on display for the event and everyone looked and sounded great!

Another Truman Reader Award year came and went with the novel Legend by Marie Lu winning for 2014. We celebrated by giving away lots of goodies to our dedicated Truman winners.







And while it's almost time to officially put this year in the books, our library is looking way too good for the school year to end thanks to Mrs. Isermann's art students and their paintings that are on display in the library. Come down and take a look when you get a chance; they are pretty impressive.

May 30th will be here before you know it. Before we officially bring this year to a close I will share a fun summer challenge for faculty and students to think about. Until then, I'll see you in the stacks!