Summer Reading

Hey, Greyhounds!  Have you heard the news?  You've got a chance to be a MILLIONAIRE!!!

Sound good?!!  Maybe too good to be true?  Well, you're right...I'm not gonna give you a million $'s.  BUT you can give yourself the potential to earn a million dollars by participating in the Millionaire Club this summer.

Did you know that if every student enrolled in a HISD school read 5 books over the summer that would equal more than 1,000,000,000 books!  That's a lot of books!  I'm trying to imagine how much space it would take to house a million books.  The JMS library has about 14,000 books...so we might be talking about someplace the size of the Astrodome.  Wow!

Check back here for more information about what you have to do to become a Millionaire....coming soon!

Library News - Houston Public Library Visit

Yesterday, Mr. Reyna, the Young Adult librarian from the Oak Forest Public Library (located just around the corner from our school) came to speak to some of the 7th grade students about summer activities at the library and HPL's summer reading program. Here's a recap in case you weren't able to hear him speak.

Houston Public Library's summer reading program, "Summer Thrills and Chills!!", sounds pretty fun to me. Here's what you do:

First - Sign up! You can register on line or stop by the BMS library or Oak Forest Library to pick up the information.

Second - READ and write down the titles of the books. If you read 20 books you get all kinds of cool stuff (Pass to the Downtown Aquarium, Astros ticket coupon, ticket voucher to the circus, and a chance to win free books)!

Third - Return your completed form to the library by AUGUST 1, 2009.

I have copies of the summer calendar of activities, information about the online homework help and sign up information for the reading program in the library...so stop on by and pick up your copy.