"Looks Like We Made It"

 Mid-Terms!

Congratulations NHS! Mid-Term week is concluding today and we are so proud of all the hard work you have done this week! Enjoy your long weekend to regroup, relax, and re-energize!

 

 

Showing The Spirit!

Even though it is mid-term week, that doesn't mean sports take a break...including showing your team spirit! Girls hockey was in full spirit wearing their onesies to mid-terms!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sassy is exhausted from Mid-Terms!!

 

 

Book of the Week

Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined / Danielle Young-Ulman

To prove to her mother, a famous opera singer dealing with depression after losing her singing voice, that she can handle the grueling life of an actress, Ingrid must survive a wilderness camp"

 

Prepping for Mid-Terms

 Mid-Term Mania

We have just completed our final full week before mid-terms. Students have bee finishing up projects and papers, studying hard and prepping for their assessments. We wish all of our students the best of luck!

Working Together

Preschool Teacher Ms. Murphy had her students learn all about the art that many African countries have in common. They focused on weaving and pottery and students created these wonderful artifacts.We were able to work together, providing books from the library on the many different countries in Africa. It proved to be a great collaboration between the library and preschool and we look forward to their next unit on Japan!

 

 

 

Book of the Week

American Like Me: Reflections On Life Between Cultures / America Ferrera
"From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a . . . varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, in 'American Like Me,' America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures . . ."--Provided by publisher.

Welcome Back!

 And We're Back!

Welcome Back staff and students! A nice vacation for all and we are now full steam ahead preparing for mid-terms and 2019! Although a short week it has been a busy one! Mr. Voldman's Holocaust and Genocide classes have been researching their papers on a specific topic related to the Holocaust. Mr. Wall's senior English classes are wrapping up their social action paper by developing their action plan and preparing to "present" it to a specific body. With only one week until mid-terms, students have been focused on making sure they are fully prepared!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Window to 2019

Thank you to NHS parent Kelly Gryglewicz for this beautiful photo of Natick High School. Captured on our first day back, it is almost as if the school is saying "look at all the windows of possibilities 2019 has in store for us!"

Happy Vacation!!!

 See You in 2019!

We have made it! It has been a long but very productive month! We have had many classes, lots of studying, preschool reading, and visits from alumni! It is a super fun time of the year and we are so grateful for all the love, support and interest in the library!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Winter....

Preschool Popping With Penguins

There is a chill in the air! To prepare for the magic of winter we have created a winter wonderland for the preschoolers with our penguin display.  The littles were so excited to pick out their favorite penguins and loved the penguin books. While we are not completely ready for the onslaught of the cold temperature and snow, we are embracing it in the library!

 

 

Book of the Week

She Would Be King / Wayétu Moore
Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. 

Keeping Research Real

 Research is Rolling In

It has been so busy in the library with two major research projects under way. Both of these projects value the process of research and have a key focus on how to locate and analyze quality sources.

Junior: Annotated Bibliography Biology Project

Juniors in biology are beginning their year long research paper by choosing any topic of interest that connects to biology. The opening act of this paper is to create an annotated bibliography of sources they may or may not use for the end paper. It is amazing to see all the creative ideas the students research.

 

 

 

 

 

Senior: Social Action Research Plan Project

Seniors are embarking on their Social Action Research Plan. Again with a focus on the process not just the end result, students are asked to research a cause that has meaning to them. With that focus they create an action plan that a young adult could conceivably carry out. In the library our focus is to have seniors use the advanced feature of our database,s and based on their findings develop a plan. We focus on making sure they do not choose a plan and make the research fit their plan, but rather have a question and find sources they can then develop into their own idea and implement.

Book of the Week

Enter Title Here / Rahul Kanakia
In Rahul Kanakia's Enter Title Here, a perfect high-school student will do anything to get into Stanford. When she lands herself a literary agent, she finds the perfect university application hook. But she's convinced no one would want to read a novel about a study machine like her. To make herself a more relatable protagonist, she must start doing all the regular American girl stuff she normally ignores, like making friends and having a boyfriend. She even crafts a perfect sentimental ending, but even with a mastermind in charge, things can't always go as planned.

Let It Snow!

 It's Snow Time!

It is the first snowfall of the season and it has definitely brought out the excitement in all. Of course it also produced some "interesting" walks from the lots this morning! 

 

Read The Snow Away

 In honor of our first snowfall,  one of our favorite preschool stories!

Waiting For Snow / Marsha Diane Arnold


"Badger cannot wait one more minute for it to snow. When his friend Hedgehog explains that everything comes in its time, Badger is unconvinced and impatient as ever. But Badger's friends have a few tricks up their sleeves to try and get the snow's attention and distract their pal in the meantime"--Provided by publisher.

Book Of the Week 

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens / Marieke Nijkamp (ed)

An anthology of stories in various genres, featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators, ranging from established best selling authors to debut authors.