News From the Library
Ocober, 2015
Storybook Character Pumpkin Patch - Family Fun
Please pass this onto your parents:
v Think of your favorite Storybook character.
v Pumpkin needs to be smaller than a basketball.
v Fake or real pumpkins allowed.
v Decorate your pumpkin – acrylic paint or permanent markers are best (no spray paint/watercolors, please).
v For elaboration & 3D effect: add yarn, squiggly eyes, buttons, etc.
v NO Poking, Cutting, Carving (Pumpkin rots & oozes).
v Fill in the information below about your Storybook Pumpkin Character.
v Bring your pumpkin to the library.
Plan to pick up your pumpkin to take home by: Oct. 30.
Participation is voluntary. Open to all Block House Creek students. Have fun decorating & being creative with your families!
Find the links below on the Library LibGuide or Red Star -- "Recommend a Good Book Tab"
"Too-Many-tabs-Open-Itis"
This 3 minute video by Grandview librarian, Dee Porter, shows you how to save your tabs in Chrome in a folder so you can open them all at one time when you need them. (And close them when you don't.)
How to Save Passwords/User Names on your new teacher laptop
What's The Teacher Reading?
iPads Apps For Students & Support From the Library
When: Oct. 29th, Thursday
Time: 3:15 - 3:45
Where: Library
Who: Kindergarten & 1st grade teachers (2nd grade teachers too, if you have your iPads delivered by then).
Bring all of your student iPads so you can ready them to be used the next day with students!
Example of things to be explored:
- Saving Online Applications to Your Home Screen
- Saving Bookmarks to Your Home Screen (ex. a Favorite Library Resource like PebbleGo).
- Which Apps work well for what grade level, teaching which concepts?