Hello Readers, So the past two days have been a whirlwind of early school dismissal, impending ice doom, cancelled author visits, two-hour school delays, cancelled school days, many social media conversations, rescheduled author visits and in the end awesomeness. This afternoon Quail Ridge Books and Tom Angleberger were able to work out a rescheduled time…
Hello Readers, I am still a little geeked up over what went down at our meeting yesterday afternoon. I have been watching and semi-editing our film footage of the Apex Android robotics club visit and it still just makes me giddy. I recently got an email from a former student and early SMS Guys Read…
Hello Readers, Yesterday was Free Comic Book Day around the country, I hope you were able to find a local comic shop and stop in. I took my 4 year old son and 8 year old daughter to their second Free Comic Book Day. The were both excited for the morning adventure with their dad.…
Hello Readers, Now that the dust has settled on the first few rounds of our SMS Guys Read Books and Basketball Tournament it is time to review the books left to duke it out in the Sweet Sixteen. This year we have had some serious upsets, close games and complete bracket busters…I’m looking at you…
Hello Readers, The 7th/8th Grade chapter of SMS Guys Read met yesterday and we talked up Neil Gaiman’s excellent reading idea for this time of the year. We decided it would make a great public service announcement video. Take a look and let us know what you think… Go find that spooky book…
Hello Readers, So we are out on Track Out break, but I saw a little note while I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and thought I should help spread the good news. It seems that tomorrow, October 6, 2012 will be the first Star Wars Reads Day all across this great land!…
Hello Readers, Some big news out of Quail Ridge Books…. Tom Angleberger is coming to town August 15! The finale of the Origami Yoda books is set to be released on Tuesday August 7. The book is called The Secret of the Fortune Wookie. We asked if he might be able to stop by SMS…
Hello Readers, Well Matthew vs the coconut really. Matt brought in a coconut inspired by our reading of Call It Courage. Check out our coconut challenge… Go forth and attack your own coconut. Read on, Mr. H
Hello Readers, Yesterday our Call It Courage readers got together to sail our rafts. As with any Guys Read meeting there was absolute chaos and loads of silliness. But, it was a lot of fun. Check out the edited video… and because the video card filled before we were done filming here is some more…
Hey TMC Guys Read, We loved your final Horton video and really enjoyed sharing books and videos with you through the Intercontinental Ballistic Read Group. Here is our final Horton video and a possible direction for our group as we get to the end of the school year. Enjoy… So let us know if you…
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