The Library

Washington Middle School students may sign up for a Gaggle email account. Gaggle is web-based and can be used both at school and outside of school.

The purpose for offering Gaggle email accounts is so that students can send and receive schoolwork on school computers. The Gaggle email account is NOT intended to be a student’s primary or personal email account. It should be used for school-related purposes only. Gaggle email is not private or confidential and may be reviewed by staff.

For more information about Gaggle email accounts, read the document Gaggle Student Email Agreement. To set up a Gaggle email account, students must bring the form, signed by the student and a parent/guardian, to Ms. Amster-Burton in the library.

Please contact Ms. Amster-Burton (leamsterburton@seattleschools.org/252-2600) with questions about Gaggle email.

Gaggle user agreement.pdf

Erin Hunter (Warriors series)
Saturday, April 28, 11:00 am at University Book Store, Mill Creek
Saturday, April 28, 1:00 pm at University Book Store, Bellevue
Saturday, April 28, 4:00 pm at Secret Garden Books

More events:

Nancy Pearl (Book Lust, Book Crush)
Monday, April 30, 7:00 pm at Central Library

Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief and sequels)
Tuesday, May 8, 7:00 pm at All for Kids Books and Music

Suzanne Collins (Gregor the Overlander series)
Monday, May 21, 7:00 pm at All for Kids Books and Music

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Cool Math Games

Fun Brain

Rush Hour

Visual Multiplication Applet

Multiflyer multiplication game

Math Strand Activities

Just wanted to let visitors know that, yes, this site is active and yes, you are encouraged to visit. 06-07 school year is in full swing! Welcome, new students! The library is super-busy! Third lunch yesterday was jammed with eighth graders frantically finishing their social studies homework! New cookbooks are on display in the library! Kids are checking out many, many books! Soon I will have time to post on this site! In the meantime, if you send in book reviews, I’ll get ‘em on here.

Most popular in the library right now: Warriors series by Erin Hunter, which is about tribes of feral cats on the prowl. Newest book arriving soon.

This article in Publishers Weekly mentions upcoming new movies adapted from children’s/YA books. Most likely to interest middle school students: Hoot, Stormbreaker, and Eragon.

Thanks to Ms. Peterson at Mercer Middle School for the link.

Interesting article on MSNBC about a plagiarism charge involving the novel Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty. I read this book a few years ago and remember enjoying it, but I checked and it’s not in our library. I think I may have decided the content was too mature. (We do have books with mature content, but every now and then I decide against something.) I’m not sure, though, so I think I’ll re-read it and see. In the meantime it’s available through the public library for anyone who’s interested.