EdTech 2011 highlights and fun websites

I went to EdTech 2011 conference in February,a great annual technology resource for teachers, librarian and administrators, and I thought I would share with you some EDTech highlights:

1. Dr. Glen Bull is a Professor of Instructional Technology in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, and he was the keynote speaker for the EDTech conference. He presented a new technological tool for educators - Digital Fabricator. Digital Fabrication is a process by which one can digitally design and then physically construct objects, often using 2D fabricators or 3D printers. Dr. Glen Bull believes that the engineering design process found in digital fabrication can provide a more integrated approach to the teaching of the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) when centered in the elementary school. http://www.digitalfabrication.org/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5SREQsXNIs
2. Cindy Matejka is a representative from the ideastation.org gave a great presentation on cyber bullying. Here are some helpful websites for teachers, parents and students (3-5 grades): Pacer.org/bullying
http://www.onguardonline.gov/games/friend-finder.aspx
Fbi-sos.org
Cindy can come to school for a PTA meeting to talk about cyber bullying prevention: cmatejka@ideastation.org “What you post online is never private.”
3. Organize and share your files with Microsoft Office 2007 OneNote: http://techjam.wikispaces.com/OneNote http://www.wix.com/gottechjam/home
4. The top 25 free websites for teaching and learning 2010: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm
I hope you’ll find above information helpful,
Elena Y.

Thanks!

We thank Mrs. Dunn who purchased of nine new volumes for the Mary Munford Library. The titles of the volumes are Tales from a NOT-SO-Popular Party Girl, Snakes and Reptiles, Micro Monsters, Sharks & Other Creatures of the Deep, Savy, Scumble, Of Thee I Sing, and How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids. HAPPY READING!!!!!!!!!!!

2010 New Book Reception for Teachers

To celebrate the arrival of 242 new books for the Library Media Center, Mrs. Yamashev and Mrs. Nappier held a morning reception for teachers in December. Teachers from each grade level stopped by the library to take a look and checked out new volumes. Here were the titles that received the most comments and had high interest from teachers and later on from students:

Being a Pig is Nice by Lloyd-Jone

Born to Read by Sierra

Egg Drop by Grey

Ghost Caught on Film by Willin

How I Learned Geography by Shulevitz

Beware of the Frog by Bee,

And many more!

Thanks to Mrs. Nappier for helping out with the reception and to all the teachers who visited the library!

Family Reading Night 2010

This year's Family Reading Night was scheduled for November 16, 2010.

As you all know, the Family Reading Night is a school wide event that encourages families to spend quality time reading together. Library Media Center doors were open to celebrate the night of Reading. The attendance was over a hundred visitors. You could see children playing with puzzles and Dr. Seuss based smart board games, guessing on how many fictional books are in the library, and many more activities. The check out desk was open, and over fifty books were checked out! Mrs. Yamashev’s daughter Emily volunteered to help out with the event. Thank you, Emily, for a job well done and thanks to all participants. It was a night to remember!

Library Media Center Schedule 2010-2011

Below is the schedule of library time for each class, 2010-2011 school year.

Ashauer Fridays 10:55-11:45

Bracken Mondays 12:25-1:15p

Bennet (3rd) Mondays 1:25-2:15p

Baughan Wednesdays 1:25-2:15p

Bennet (5th) Thursdays 9:50-10:50a

Callis Wednesdays 12:25-1:15p

Carpenter Wednesdays 2:25-3:15p

Charity Monday 2:25-3:15p

Dunn Thursdays 10:55-11:45

Kiesler Thursdays 1:25-2:15p

Jones Thursdays 12:25-1:15p

Katz Tuesdays 1:25-2:15p

Kulp Tuesdays 10:55-11:45

Lindstrom Fridays 12:25-1:15p

Lombardi Fridays 1:25-2:15p

Lippman Fridays 2:25-3:15p

Mallory Thursdays 2:25-3:15p

Myers Tuesday 9:50-10:50

Peaseley Mondays 10:30-11:30a

Starke Wednesdays 10:55-11:45

Schwarz Fridays 9:50-10:50a

Via Tuesdays 2:25-3:15p

Vassar Mondays 9:30-10:30a

Williams Tuesday 12:25-1:15p

Parents are welcome to visit the library, or volunteer to help in the Media Center during your child's library time.

Welcome to the Mary Munford Library Center 2010-2011!

The Library was painted over the summer. Now it has beautiful baby blue walls.

Starting with Kindergarten, all classes come into the library once a week for 50-60 minutes. During their class, students learn a new library skill and/or hear a new story before they check out their books. Now we have collaborative lessons with their classroom teachers.

New nonfiction books, purchased with PTA money, are on the shelves now. Your children can check out new books such as:

• A New Look at Revolutionary Williamsburg by K.M. Kostlay
• Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
• Organic Gardening for Kids by Elizabeth Scholl
• First Ladies; Women Who Called White House Home by Beatrice Gormley
• Emperor Penguins of the Antarctic by Miller
• I Love Bugs by Sturges and Halpern
• Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
• Star Wars Series
• Guinness World Records 2010
• World War II Spies by O’Shei

JUST TO NAME A FEW!

A big thank you goes out to the Mary Munford PTA that generously donated so many wonderful books to the library! We are so thankful to all of you :O)

Read Across America celebrated in the style of Dr. Seuss and the Lorax

In honor of Read Across America, the Media Center sponsored a poetry contest. The children were asked to write a poem in the same style as The Lorax. It would be about the environment. The winner received a bookmark with seeds for the student to plant in his/hers own backyard.

A special thanks to Mrs. Creasey for creating the fun bulletin board.

Here are three poems.

Stop cutting down trees

I'm going to plea

If you keep cutting down trees

I'm going to scream

So please stop cutting down trees

And I will give you cheese.

Trees are paper and paper

is trees. People hate

homework so stop if you

please. It's just wasting

paper on stuff we

don't need so don't

make homework and we will

be pleased

One day the Once-ler

came to the Lorax

town and started to

cut the trees down, down

down they fell to the

ground. This hurt the

Lorax's feelings. This

problem couldn't be

solved I poke up but

it didn't work. He just

kept cutting down.

Unless, I thought if all

the animals in the forest

yelled, "we are the

animals we speak for

the trees they are

our home so don't

cut them please!

The Once-ler thought

about this for a long

long time he decided

if this were my

home I wouldn't/want

it cut down so he

stopped and thought

I shouldn't hurt this town

and he didn't.