Saturday, May 21, 2011

Rising 8th Grader Summer Reading

Hi guys! Welcome to 8th grade at CMS. You can click on the response link below to write your response to at least four of your summer reading books.

Your books should include: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and at least one book from the 8th Grade College Bound Reading List.

Each response should not summarize the book, but should instead, tell us what the book made you think about. Please write 2-3 paragraphs and be sure to use proper spelling and grammar. Feel free to email me if you have questions at hingers@clarke.k12.ga.us

Remember, the CMS Media Center will be open from 4-6 p.m. this summer every other Thursday starting June 2nd.

Rising 7th Grader Summer Reading

Hi guys! Welcome to 7th grade at CMS. You can click on the response link below to write your response to at least two of your summer reading books.

Each response should not summarize the book, but should instead, tell us what the book made you think about. Please write 2-3 paragraphs and be sure to use proper spelling and grammar. Feel free to email me if you have questions at hingers@clarke.k12.ga.us

Remember, the CMS Media Center will be open from 4-6 p.m. this summer every other Thursday starting June 2nd.

Summer Reading Rising 6th Graders

Hi guys! Welcome to CMS. You can click on the response link below to write your response to at least two of your summer reading books.

Each response should not summarize the book, but should instead, tell us what the book made you think about. Please write 2-3 paragraphs and be sure to use proper spelling and grammar. Feel free to email me if you have questions at hingers@clarke.k12.ga.us

Remember, the CMS Media Center will be open from 4-6 p.m. this summer every other Thursday starting June 2nd.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day!

All students and faculty are encouraged to carry a poem in their pocket today to share with others. Students and faculty "caught" sharing their poem today will have their name entered into a drawing for a Jittery Joe's gift card! Which poem will you have in your pocket? See Mrs. Hinger in her pocket apron or the pocket sign outside the media center for a poem if you do not already have one. Thanks to all of our teachers that have helped promote this over the past few weeks!

Today is the CMS Georgia Exceptional Media Center Open House!

Today is our Georgia Exceptional Open House from 9-11 a.m. Come on out and see all the exciting things going on in the CMS Media Program! You can see our newly redesigned media center. Thanks to the efforts of several teachers, students and parents the CMS Media Center has been updated and transformed. We will have Jittery Joe's Coffee (thanks to the donation from the Googe's) and brunch type snacks as many of our students will present about our ongoing collaborative information literacy projects. I'll post highlights from these projects soon!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Elizabethan Faire-research, info literacy, students to UGA for research day

--Elizabethan Faire 2011--



The CMS Media Center is hosting the Elizabethan Faire this week. We will be open for visitors Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Ms. McNeeley's 8th grade students have research topics relating to the Elizabethan Era during their study of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

During this collaborative project, the students learned about research and information literacy skills and created multi-genre research papers, three dimensional displays and presentations using both print and electronic resources. Students did their research in the CMS Media Center, online using Galileo and at the UGA Library on two Saturday research days. Please come in and see our AMAZING students present all they have learned on this exciting and interesting time in history.