Why Our Book Fair Is Important To Our Library?

This week we will be hosting our book fair in the Wildwoods Gym.  The book fair will be open every day before and after school and during parent/teacher conferences.   This is a great way to get a jump on Christmas shopping and a great way to introduce some new books to your child's home library.  We also have teacher wish book baskets set up for you to see what books your child's teacher would love to add to their classroom library.  Please check them out and think about donating to their class.  

This fair is so important to our school library because it is our main fundraiser for our Mountain Meadow Media Center!  We are short on many non-fiction titles and young adult fiction books.  If we meet our goal of $3000 we can receive 25% of the total in cash to buy our much needed books.  

If you can't make it to the fair, you can always click on the following link and order online.  The orders will be shipped to our school and given to your student.  If it is a gift we can keep them for you until you have time to pick them up.  

See you at the fair!  Thank you so much for your support!

Digital Citizen Experts

Our final Digital Citizenship Posters are on our Media Center Walls.  The Alders and Cedars evaluated each other's work and learned the importance of all our digital citizenship rules.  

Thank you to all who came out to our parent night.  It is so important that we help our children navigate the wide world of the internet.  To the right of this post, I have included three links that are great resources for parents to use when having conversations with your child about their time on the internet.  I believe it's a very important issue that often gets ignored because we simply don't know where to begin.  We are charting new waters as we try to parent in the cyber domain.  There are great videos, a digital glossary,  real life testimonials, and a list of age appropriate apps.  

Wrapping Up...

We are wrapping up our digital citizenship projects this week.  The Alders and Cedars have come up with inspiring ways to stay safe on the internet.  I have been pleased to see how well they are working as a team to organize their thoughts and ideas.    The creativity of coming up with their own slogans and logos has been fun to watch.  Please be watching for their posters going up along our media center's walls.  

The Clarkia are well on their way in becoming accurate typist.  This week they took their first "timed" test.  We stressed the importance of accuracy and proper form.  I told the Clarkia that I was not interested in their speed at this time, that will come with increased practice.  We are focusing on accuracy and proper finger placement.  

In our Trillium library class we are discovering the fiction and nonfiction genre.  They are sorting notecards that have snippets of either a fiction or nonfiction story into the right genre.  We will continue to practice this throughout the year.

In our Huckleberry and Clarkia library classes we are learning the importance of the parts of a book.  Ask your student if they can find the copyright date or "birthdate".  They were very thorough in pointing out how old their books were to me.  The Clarkia are competing to beat their time in naming all the parts of a book in a round robin naming game.

Please help your student to remember to bring back their library books!  You should be getting an email reminder if their books are overdue.  I will also be printing out paper reminder slips to come home as well.

Don't forget to sign up to help out at our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair!

Mountain Meadow Media Center Schedule

In case you are wondering when your child's books are due back!  They have two weeks until they are due.

Responsibilities As Digital and Print Citizens

This week all of our Mountain Meadow Media classes worked on learning and exemplifying good digital and print citizenship.  The classes are learning how to explore and access our resources in our media center.  The Trillium and Huckleberry classes will be making their own illustrations to our own version of the "Shelf Elf" explaining their understanding of library etiquette.

The Clarkia are experts on finding different types of genres throughout our library.  They started their typing classes this week and have learned the importance of proper typing posture and the importance of the home row keys.  I hear many comments of, "This is fun!  Can I do this at home?  Can I do this in aftercare?"  The answer is yes!  Typing.com will save all their hard work and keep challenging them to become better typists.

Finding different types of genres of books on a scavenger hunt

Exploring Shelf Elf Rules

The Alders and Cedars have been working hard at researching, taking notes, and learning how to be diligent and safe digital citizens.   They are working on creating posters for our Media Center that clearly lay out ways to be safe in cyberspace.  I am excited to see what they will come up with.

Introducing Our Mountain Meadow Media Center

Here's A Look At Our Mountain Meadow Media Center

Library StoryTime Center

Added space for reading and researching

   

New Chrome Book Center


Your student should come home with a letter  this week from the Media Center.   The letter gives details to our check-out policies, internet use, and other important information.  Please check your child's backpack.  Our 3-8th grade students need to have their internet agreement forms turned in as quickly as possible so they can start their computer usage.

We have been learning the importance of being a responsible print and digital citizen, how to respect our space, and what good book care looks like.  In Trillium and Huckleberry classes we read our favorite "Shelf Elf" book by Jackie Mims Hopkins.   Skoob, the shelf elf has been dancing around our shelves looking for things to smile about and possibly be sad about if there is improper book care.

The Clarkia have read, "The Library Dragon" by Carmen Deedy and reviewed all the book care and library citizenship guidelines.  They completed their review with a fun scavenger hunt.  They are anxious to get started on their typing skills and we hope to start next week.  There will be a letter coming home next week about typing.com and your student's username and password.




The Alders and Cedars  have been exploring what digital citizenship is and will be working on a research project.  They will be designing posters to place in our Media Center that explains the importance of the responsibilities we have in our digital world.

Please come visit our Media Center.  We would love to see you.

A New Look!

Stay tuned for  a new look for our media center...it's in progress! 

Here are some of our newest titles added to our library this summer!

Land of Stories Series

FableHaven Series

Alex Rider Series

Complete Ranger Apprentice Series