Rowland Media Center, January 2018
Cold, Cold Weather Calls for Warming Up with a Good Book
Ten Reasons Libraries Are Still Better Than the Internet (Banks, 2017)
Excerpted from the American Libraries article :
Libraries are safer information and meeting spaces with no cyberbullying going on. Librarians are leaders in increasing online access to scholarly information. Librarians can help you sort the real news from the fake. Librarians guide you to exactly what you need. Libarians do not track your reading or search history to sell you things. Click on the article above for lots of other reasons! Please encourage your students to get in the library habit!
Ms. Abduljaami's Class Chose Books for Black History Reports
They chose familiar historical figures, such as Rosa Parks, and some lest often chosen albeit important. Think Malcolm X, Garrett Morgan, George Crum......
100 Days of School
Finally, after snow and ice, we reached the 100th day of school on Thursday, 1/25/2018. Yay! We celebrated with some new books about.....what else.....the number 100.
Top AR Reader & Top 3rd Grade Speller
Congratulations to Ja'Nario, who is in the media center almost everyday checking out lots of books! Research shows a relatively strong correlation between reading and spelling (Ehri, 1997). For more info on the research:
Why Are Some Books Filed in Buckets in the Media Center?
Why are they there? It's a type of genrification of our collection, whereby I make popular subjects and series more accessible for our students by grouping them together by genre, subject, series, or even characters. It's a book store type of approach. Why do it? It increases circulation. It introduces students to titles that might be harder to find if shelved, such as the Fly Guy non-fiction. It's more user friendly for the students. Please note that our entire collection is not genrified, and we still use the Dewey Decimal System for most of our titles due to space constraints. Questions about where to find titles? Ask!
Third Grade Creates Mad Libs
After circulating books and listening to Max's Words, third grade reviewed parts of speech and created mad lib stories. They loved reading their wacky stories aloud!
First & Second Grades Learn About Cyber Safety
Students learned not to share passwords, real names, phone numbers, addresses, names of schools, photographs, etc., online without a trusted adult by their side. (This includes text messages, etc.) They also learned about netiquette and the concept of forever. (Nothing goes away on the Internet....not really.)
Students Stop to Read These Black History Posters Everyday
Not only do we have posters for Black history outside of the media center, we have lots of new Black history books inside of the media center. If you cannot find the person needed, ask. We have eBooks through GALILEO, Pebblego, and a large selection of collective biographies, such as African American Entrepreneurs, African American Military Heroes, etc.
Top 10 Sites to Help Students (and us) Check Their Facts (from ISTE)
Do you sometimes wonder if what your read or hear is true? These are sites to check your facts, whether from politicians, social media, or the news media. This includes Snopes, Washington Post Fact Checker, and ProPublica.
Rowland Media Center
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