E. Rivers Virtual ES
September 1, 2020
September is a Great Time to Curl Up with a Good Book!
SEL Book of the Month - Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'
We Lost a Super Hero last week!
MyOn - Over 6,000 ebooks kids love
1st -5th grade Students:
Select myON icon in myBackpack
Select RIVERS ELEMENTARY
Use student's APS username and password.
PK - Kindergarten Students:
Go to www.myon.com
Select school name: APS Early Reading
Username: student
Password: books
Britannica has produced creative Science and Social Studies content sets called LaunchPacks that are full of varied resources, such as informational texts, media, timelines, maps, and primary sources, articles, videos, and images.
- Educators say LaunchPacks saves them countless hours finding authoritative, unbiased, and vetted resources around topics that correlate with their standards.
HOW DO I ACCESS BRITANNICA LAUNCHPACKS?
- In myBACKPACK, click on eResources
- Click on Britannica ImageQuest
- Now, close Britannica ImageQuest
- Go back to MyBackPack, click on Galileo
- Click Brittanica School
- Now click on "Your Britannica Resources"
- Now click "Launch Packs"
- Congrats! You made it to Launch Packs!
Vocabulary.Com
Gifted Testing Parent Referral Window is OPEN SEP 1 through SEP 30
NEW Distance Learning Media Center Website
This is the new Media Center website developed specifically for Distance Learning education. There are additional resources not listed in MyBackpack that may be beneficial for students.
Please let me know if you would like me to add any eResources to this site.
CLICK HERE - NEW Distance Learning Media Center Website
Do You Need a Device?
I hope everyone had a great first week of school!
If you're having problems getting into any of the Apps in MyBackpack, please call 404-802-1000 and/or let your classroom teacher know. If the device needs to be exchanged for another device, contact Mrs. Boston at the email below.
E. Rivers Media Center
Email: pboston@atlanta.12.ga.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/apsk12.org/eriversmediacenter/home?authuser=1
Location: 8 Peachtree Battle Avenue Northwest, Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone: 404-802-7066
Twitter: @paulaboston10