MCDS Book Corner

The museum was first built in San Francisco for the 1894 Mid Winter International Exposition, and most recently opened as the deYoung Musuem in October 2005, this a wonderful place for exploring, eating, visiting the amazing bookstore and just walking around in amazement.
This is just a partial list of what you can do at the [...]

From www.mcdsblogs.org/8books, a book review blog put together by the 8th graders and their teachers here at MCDS~
“Meggie started to discover the reason she ever went there in the first place. A book. A small black book by the name of Inkheart, which Mo had tried to hide from Meggie for the past nine years [...]

The best way to predict the future is to invent it~ Alan Kay
In the spirit of invention and progress, here are some books and websites to share~
Buildings in Disguise: Architecture That Looks Like Animals, Food and Other Things by Joan Marie Arbogast
Construction Zone by Cheryl Hudson
A Kids’ Guide to Building Forts by Tom Birdseye
Build It! [...]

All was busily moving along today as school got underway. It was thrilling, really, to see so many kids and parents making their way over the bridge to the sounds of digging, drilling and pounding. The construction was really just a background show as classes got underway and students found new paths to get to [...]