Spanish Field trip to La Tasca

Today eighth grade Spanish language students enjoyed a tapas lunch at the inner harbor restaurant La Tasca in Baltimore.
Click below to listen to our restaurant review Podcast!

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Register to Win a FREE Special Edition Eragon DVD!

Hey kids! As mentioned on MHTV this morning... visit the Media Center and enter to win a a FREE Special Edition Eragon DVD! Just fill out a scrap piece of paper (we recycle, we're on the Green Team!) with your:

• full name
• your grade
• and your English teacher & core

Only one entry per kid...if we find duplicates, they both will be thrown out! Winners will be announced soon on MHTV! Good luck!
Oh and while you're in the Media Center, why not check out the Eragon book if you haven't read it! It's AWEsome!!! (and some say better than the movie, you tell me if it is!)

Audio Books To GO! Listen to a Good Book!

the MHMS Media Center has started a new Audio Books to Go project! Students can check out one of the MANY new audio books on CD that we've ordered and if they don't have a CD player of their own, can also check out a backpack containing a new CD player, headphones and batteries. So, come by the MHMS Media Center and get an Audio Book to Go! and listen to a good book! Audio book review podcasts, coming soon!

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Recognize & Celebrate Black History Month!

An MHTV News Capsule

Please listen to our Black History Month Podcast!


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"February marks the beginning of Black History Month - an annual celebration that has existed since 1926. But what are the origins of Black History Month?

Much of the credit can go to Harvard Scholar Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who was determined to bring Black History into the mainstream public arena. Woodson devoted his life to making "the world see the Negro as a participant rather than as a lay figure in history."

In 1926 Woodson organized the first annual Negro History Week, which took place during the second week of February. Woodson chose this date to
coinside with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln - two men who had greatly impacted the black population.

Over time, Negro History Week evolved into the Black History Month that we know today - a four-week-long celebration of African American History"

The *NEW* Media Books Are Here!

YAY! Woo Hoo!



hey kids! stop by the library media/technology center today and check out the cool new books that *YOU* (mhms kids & teachers) suggested! all the books that you requested earlier this year are here and ready to check out *NOW!* if you don't see the book YOU wanted, let us know and we'll get it for you ASAP or add it onto next year's order. REMEMBER: YOU are our customer! we want to have the books YOU want to read!
~ms. jones

January is Reading Month@the Hill!

January is Maryland Reading Month and guess what? You are already participating if you are reading this blog! Please support our reading month efforts by letting your kids observe you reading. Whether it is a book, the newspaper, or a magazine…it's very important that they know that you read, too! The following are podcasts of some of our AWEsome students telling about their favorite books. These book reviews have also been pre-recorded on video and will be shown on our MHTV newscast throughout the month. Enjoy and feel free to leave comments about YOUR favorite book! Happy Reading! ~Ms. Jones, Library Media/Technology Specialist


Bailey, a 7th grader, shares about her favorite book, Boy2Girl by Terence Blacker.


Please click below to listen to her podcast! :-)


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Jamal, a 6th grader, shares about his favorite book, Storbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.


Please click below to listen to his podcast! :-)


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Elizabeth, a 6th grader, shares about her favorite book, and Newberry Medal Award winner Bridge to Terebithia by Catherine Patterson.

Soon to be a new Disney major motion picture!
Please click below to listen to her podcast! :-)


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Devonte, a 7th grader, shares about his favorite book Cryptid Huntersby Roland Smith.


Please click below to listen to his podcast! :-)


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a special thanks to Mrs. Deb Burkey and Mrs. Lisa Katzen for helping make this happen and all their hard work! You rock!

The End! Lemony Snicket fans rejoice that 'The End' is Here!

"Children around the world are braced for a bittersweet moment as the 13th and final volume of Lemony Snicket's best-selling children's books, "A Series of Unfortunate Events," hits stores today.

Click the podcast below for a recommendation from one of our 8th grade students and Lemony Snicket fans, Devrin C.



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Titled simply "The End," it may be the last we hear of the Baudelaire orphans and the evil Count Olaf, a distant relative intent on robbing the three siblings of the abundant inheritance left by their parents, who perished in a fire 10 pages into the first book of the series. But it does resolve some of the mysteries that have perplexed devoted fans since the debut volume, "The Bad Beginning," was published in 1999."
Read the entire article here Ms. Jones notes: and don't worry my little darlings...i shall bravely face the throngs of smelly little children at the borders in columbia so that we may have at least a few copies to read and to cry upon...
UPDATE 10.24...the books have been bought, processed, barcoded, covered...and the END is here! Available for check out in the Media Center!