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I'm looking forward to reading with your child for this school year! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Policies and Procedures
Media Center Hours: 8:00 – 3:10
Checkout: Students may check out two (2) books at a time for a one-week period. They may renew books if they need them subsequent weeks. Teachers and staff may check out books on an unlimited basis. Students have regular access to the Media Center for book exchange through Library. Students may also visit the Media Center from other classes with permission from their teacher. |
Lost or Damaged Books: If a book is lost, the student is responsible for the cost of the book. You can purchase a copy of the book and return that, also. |
Rules & Expectations
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Parent Volunteers: If you would like to help with special projects in the Media Center, please contact Mrs. Shana Fields or Miss Whitney, the media assistant. |
Skills that may be covered this year in the Library include:
- Using the Dewey Decimal System
- Internet safety
- Using Internet technology
- Digital citizenship
- How to use public library resources
- Plagiarism
- Research/MLA
- Careers
- Banned book awareness week
- Genres
- Poetry
- Books in verse
- Book talks/trailers on new and recommended books
Games students can play that increase learning:iCivics https://www.icivics.org/games) Be Internet Awesome (Google Digital Citizenship - creating safe passwords, online citizenship) Braille games: http://braillebug.org/Games.asp Coding in scratch: Create a google logo & Hour of Code: https://code.org/learn Fake News Information: links games: factitious | bad news | newspaper generator | quiz Teen Health and Wellness: https://teenhealthandwellness.com/ STEAM challenges:https://www.makermaven.net/steam-challenges Random Acts of Kindness ideas: https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/ Curious Jane 15 projects: https://www.smartbrief.com/whitepapers/0B2563F2-DA01-4DB7-9B2B-6A22FA307980/ecoISSUE_draftENJOY_free.pdf Drawing/writing/coloring:https://dianealber.com/spot-book-printables/ and video here: https://dianealber.com/videos/ I'm posting lots of other fun ideas and authors with online drawing and reading on the GUES Library Facebook page
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