Vote for the Goodreads Choice Awards!

Tonight on the Goodreads Choice Award website they announced that it was time to vote for our favorite books of the year. Go to Goodreads Choice Award interactive ballot here and help choose the five-star books of 2009. They used statistics from the site to create Top 10 lists in multiple genres.

Vote for your favorites and help select the Goodreads Choice Awards for 2009. The winners will be announced in the January newsletter.

Goodreads is the largest social network for readers in the world. They have more than 2,600,000 members who have added more than 64,000,000 books to their shelves. A place for casual readers and bona-fide bookworms alike, Goodreads members recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and would like to read, form book clubs and much more. Mrs. Miller's user name is Shannon.

Check it out ...It is a good tool to try on our snow day tomorrow. :)

Check Out These NEW Van Meter Student Blogs!

Every morning when I get up I read several blogs that I subscribe to in my Google Reader. For the last couple of weeks I have had three new ones to read. And the most exciting thing about these blogs is that Van Meter students have created them!

Here are the new Van Meter student blogs that you will want to check out:

Hear Us Read created by 7th graders Sarah and Jennifer features authors, books, and reading!

VM Web Watch: What You Read Now, Is What We Were Then! created by 7th graders Ali and Summer is featuring the girls VOICES through their journey in technology.

We Talk created by 5th grader Emma is going to feature the 4th and 5th graders VOICE through book talks, news, and projects.

I have created a new box on the side of the VOICE blog to list Van Meter student blogs so if you have one and it would like it to be featured too just let me know.

We are also going to be meeting in the library for BLOG BUDDIES 4th hour. This will be a great time to work on our blogs together. Come join us if you would like. :)

Excited to announce a new student blog!

It is a Snowy Day outside, just like one of my favorite books. :) In the morning when we all get up to welcome the first Snow Day of the school year, I will read that to my son Hagan.

I will also take a look at something new! It is the newest Van Meter student blog called We Talk created by blogger Emma D. This blog will hold book talks that the 4th and 5th graders are going to create in the Mac computer lab. The students are writing their book talks in December and the day we get back from break will start the production of these book talks.

Emma and her classmates will be adding lots of neat products to We Talk in the next few months.

You can find We Talk here! Have fun following their project on this blog and in the library.