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News from the Gettys Middle School Media Center in Easley, South Carolina!
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Reading Programs Begin! The Seventh Grade Sizzlers and Eighth Grade Readers’ Choice reading
programs were launched in January. Students need to read and pass AR tests on at least
three of the books in each program by the beginning of March to qualify for the voting
celebrations. While the Sizzlers selections, which were all bought new last year, remained
the same, Readers’ Choice students had some new titles this year: Deadly, Between
Shades of Gray, and The Running Dream, which has now been nominated for the SC
Junior Book Award and the SC Young Adult Book Award for 2013! Students participate in
online discussion groups at www.7thsizzlers.blogspot.com and
www.choicebooks.blogspot.com.
GMS Library Update
Students preview the books, make their
selections, and check out!
January-
February
2013
Sizzlers Books
Quarter 2 Accelerated Reader Perfect Score Winners
The three winners of the Accelerated Reader
Perfect Score $25 Prize Drawing for the first quarter were
Kailey Jones (6th grade), Allison Smith (7th grade)
and Devin Keeney (8th grade). Whenever a student
earns 100% on an AR test, they can print the test result
for free and place it in the prize box. A winner from each
grade level is drawn at the end of every nine weeks.
There were 216 entries for Quarter 2. Many thanks to
PTO for continuing to sponsor this reading incentive
program!
Our Library by the Numbers January 2013
Allison Smith
The GMS media center houses nearly 18,000 items in its collection.
It’s the biggest classroom in the school!
Did you know?
Kailey Jones
Devin Keeney
We were open for 20 days of regular business.
Teachers reserved the library for 178 classes.
1,774 students visited without a teacher between
7:45 and 3:15
Average number of students per day: 311
3,926 books were checked out and returned.
Grade 6: 1,093.3 AR points
Grade 7: 1,708.7 AR points Grade 8: 3,057.6 AR points
Year to Date AR Totals Grade 6: 8,635.6 points Grade 7: 7,512.1 points
Grade 8: 11,757.4 points
Students took 1,128 AR tests in January.
Contact us:
Christina Connell Gettys Middle School Media Center
105 Stewart Drive Easley, SC 29640
864-397-3947 [email protected]
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