Welcome Back 2017-18

Dr. Seuss Literacy Celebration Week

Welcome Back Student and Parents!

Wimpy Kid Contest Winners

@Woodland_Hgts Winners of the @wimpykid Old School contest! pic.twitter.com/TLa0x59BGp

— Elizabeth Graham (@Libscigal) February 23, 2016

Author/Illustrators Lori Cook and Trahern Cook Visit WHES

Author/illustrators Trahern& Lori Cook are visiting @Woodland_Hgts! Gertie the Christmas Ostrich! pic.twitter.com/yKFyBa745h

— Elizabeth Graham (@Libscigal) December 17, 2015

Ready for a Whole Week of the Hour of Code

@codeorg @Woodland_Hgts Started our Hour of Code a little early! pic.twitter.com/kvEgTkXGZG

— Elizabeth Graham (@Libscigal) November 24, 2015

Summer Reading Program 2015: Every Hero Has a Story!

This is a great week in the library as we host visitors from two branches of the Spartanburg County Public Library. Both the Headquarters and the Westside branches have sent librarians to Woodland Heights to promote the SCPL Summer Reading program. This year's theme is "Every Hero Has a Story" and there are lots of cool promotions, prizes and events that go along with the theme. All library classes are learning about the program and why Summer Reading is so important (and fun)!

Catie Cornwell and Isabel Smith of the Westside Branch in the Storywell

Thank you Ms. Catie and Ms. Isabel!!

Ms. Fran hanging with 3rd grade

School Library and Public Library Meet-Up

Parents, please make sure your children participate in this FREE program. Click here for much more information. This year you can even sign up on-line and the SCPL will forgive up to $10 in fines when you sign up for Summer Reading!

Avoid the Summer Slide - the usual drop in reading scores from May to August! Keep reading students!

Dork Diaries Contest

New Year, New Books!

What could be better than a big shipment of new library books? That is what we received on Monday, the first day back from Christmas break.  Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Coats and our wonderful library volunteers are busy processing and preparing these books to get them out to the students as soon as possible! Excitement is building. Be on the lookout for sneak peeks of some of the awesome new books. 

Book Fair Family Night

Thank you to everyone who attended Book Fair Family Night on this cold November evening! Special thanks to our wonderful parent and staff volunteers. You are the best! Thank yous also to The Beacon, Bi-Lo and Food Lion for donating refreshments. We love our community partners!

2nd Grade Bat Tagxedo

Tagxedo is our web tool of choice at the moment. Now our second graders are creating word clouds! Mrs. James' class worked as a group to come up with many words describing bats and their appearance and behavior. Check out their awesome work:

The students chose the gray/black color scheme because it fit with bats.

Woodland Heights joins Millions in Reading for the Record

On Tuesday October 21st, our K4, Kindergarten, First and Second grades participated in Jumpstart's Read for the Record program. On this date, all around the world, millions of children and adults read the same book, Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells. 

Woodland Heights added 293 readers to the worldwide total. We can't wait to find out if we helped break last year's record of 2,462,860 readers! 

How Will You Make Your Mark? 2nd Group

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S.C. Book Awards Kickoff: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Have read The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore to about 25 classes this week using the app, they LOVE it! @moonbotstudios

— Elizabeth Graham (@Libscigal) September 12, 2014