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

Congratulations MRA!

We did IT!  We made our Scholastic Book Fair Goal!  Our total sales were $2,775.48 and our goal was to reach $2,750!  Thank you for all your support!  We can't wait to spend our funds on getting new books for the 2015-16 school year.   We are able to receive $487.74 in Scholastic Dollars and will be able to take $450 in cash to spend on books that Scholastic does not stock.

I will keep you posted as to what books we will have added.

Don't forget that our summer book swap will be going throughout the summer.  I look forward to seeing books being swapped in and out all summer long.  The book case will be located right outside the Mountain Meadow Library in the breezeway.

Spring Book Fair Is Coming Soon!

Our Spring Scholastic Book Fair is coming to the Wildwood Gym on Friday, May 29th through Friday, June 5th!

Online shopping opens this Wednesday, May 20th.  This is a great time to stock up on books for our summer reading program!  Our summer reading program will be a fun way to get your family reading with a few incentives.   There will be more details coming soon.

We hope to reach $2,750 in sales this spring.  This helps us fund our library for the next year.  We hope to add new titles and have OBOB (Oregon Battle of the Books) readily available for the fall.

We are looking for volunteers to help run the book fair.  Please contact me (iquinlan@mra-k8.com) if you would like to help.  Sign ups are located in the front office.

Let's meet our goal!

Recipe For Research

Independent Project Research

For the next couple of weeks we will be discussing the important ingredients for researching in all our library classes.  As a parent of four students at MRA, this time can be hectic as I help coach my children in their research.  I just wanted to pass along a reminder that we have an incredible free research tool that as made our lives a little easier.  OSLIS is a huge database of information where your students can easily access most subjects.  I have a link on the side bar that will take you right to the site.  Remember our username is:  molalla and that our password is:  oslis.  Please contact me if you have any questions.   Happy researching and I can't wait to see the projects your students have come up with.