The BEST Library News
Info. and Resources for our Best Community 5-18-2020
This is a combined newsletter this week for everyone.
Greetings Staff and Families!
Wow it is the last week of the regular school year. However, these last couple of months has been anything but regular.
I hope that you have found some good things to do with your kids from these newsletters and calendars and lesson ideas. I have loved making them for you and sharing them.
This newsletter's focus is on summer reading activities. It is so important that students read daily. Of course they can read our ebooks on Destiny or using our Houston Public Library resources found inside the Alief Digital Resources folder in the HUB. However, I have some other ideas to share with you as well!
There are all kinds of reading materials for any content area. Please take some time to explore!
I am thinking of you all and sending good thoughts and prayers.
Love, Ms McGinley
Some Super Summer Reading Opportunities in addition to what we have in the HUB
Scholastic Summer Read-A-Palooza May 4th-September 4th
Teachers, this is one that you need to set up for you kids if you have not already
Teachers, it is very quick to set up and will then give your kids a class code to use.
This is access to over 40,000 ebooks for kids. There are also activities, games and quizzes.
The Houston Public Library Summer Reading Program
The John P. McGovern Summer Reading Program
June 1, 2020 – August 15, 2020
Imagine Your Story with the Houston Public Library! Receive a free book just for registering. Summer Reading Program registration opens May 1, 2020. Earn more free books and pins by reaching reading goals.
- Click the registration button and follow the prompts.
- Log in anytime starting June 1st to track your reading.
- Unlock virtual badges by logging 20 minutes of reading a day.
- Anything you read counts!* It’s easy to unlock virtual badges and earn books** by reading just 20 minutes a day for 10 days!
FAMILY FUN!
An adult who registers for the Summer Reading Program for Grown-Ups with a youth participant who completes the Summer Reading Program will receive a free book.**
*Audiobooks, comic books, magazines, and more – it all counts as reading!
**Earned books may be picked up after Central and Neighborhood Libraries re-open.
This program was generously sponsored by the Houston Public Library Foundation and the John P. McGovern Foundation.
Reading Challenges and Bingo
REMINDER: READING RESOURCES that we have access to in and out of the HUB
- During this time, you can log into Capstone or PebbleGo using the credentials below:
- You can go into digital resources in the HUB and click on Capstone or, you can go to www.mycapstonelibrary.com
- User Name: continue
- Password: reading
- Pebble Go /Pebble Go Spanish/Pebble Go Next is also free at this time by visiting
- www.pebblego.com. (or the digital resources folder in the HUB)
- User Name: engaged
- Password: learning
- Kids can also go on Destiny Discover on the website or in the HUB and click on ebooks. So many there as well!
- Let's not forget about our Houston Public Library (HPL) resources as well. Inside the Alief Digital Resources folder, you will find a number of apps available to us including Tumblebooks. Use the credentials in the picture below to access them.
- Example for a student named John Smith with an id number of 123456 would look like this:
- Card Number: 100S123456
- Pin: 0512 (if birthday was May 12)
More Online Options for Read Alouds
Audible.com
- Audible is now offering free access to kids: Listen to stories while they rest or while they are doing something else..
Audio books ALWAYS counts as reading. Discover some cool books this summer.
Authors and Illustrators and Special Guests Sharing Books and their Craft
Thank you Thursdays with Mo Willems
Mo has certainly been busy this Spring. We enjoyed his drawing lessons and now we have a new show!
Something new will happen in June too I am sure.
Dav Pilkey at Home
https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/books/dav-pilkey-at-home/
You have to see the fun activities Dav Pilkey has planned for you. So much fun!
Michelle Obama on Mondays!
BRAIN BREAKS AND JUST PLAIN FUN!
Some great virtual field trips!
"Good Energy" at Home from Go Noodle
Need some good ideas for family time? Try these!
https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy-at-home-kids-games-and-videos/