@your school library
Stewart's Creek Library - May / June 2015
*Reminder: Don't forget to send your students to the library with passes on a regular basis to checkout new books!
End of the Year Library Information
Teachers,
I will be putting late notices in your boxes soon. I would like to ask that you please help me in trying to get all the library books returned.
*Our final date for checkout is May 15th.
*Our final due date for all books to be returned is May 22nd.
I appreciate all your help with this very important matter! Truly I do!
Do you want to control what your students can view and do on an ipad?
Good news! You can control what your students do on an ipad using Guided Access Functionality. Click here to see an easy, step by step guide on the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning website.
Twitter in Lewisville Independent School District
Go to Handles & Hashtags for the Lewisville ISD to find twitter handles, hashtags, and chats specifically for our district, and get your PLN groove on!
Introducing Philanthropy to Students
There are several websites available to introduce philanthropic values to kids. Speaking of ways to spend their summertime, it would be nice to encourage our students to become part of the philanthropic community by participating through these websites. These are a fun and easy way to get started and are all online in keeping with our "digital natives" mentalities. Please take a look at the user friendly sites below.
Free Kibble
This website provides 10 pieces of kibble, to Animal Shelters, to feed hungry dogs and cats for each question answered (right or wrong)!
Free Rice
At freerice.com, for each answer that is correct, 10 grains of rice is donated to the World Food Programme to help end world hunger.
Care 2
The Care 2 website is an easy and free "click to donate" program. There are many causes to choose from including environmental, children & women's rights, and animal welfare. Advertisers sponsor the site and make donations for every "click" to the Children International Organization.
Literature, Culture and/or Local Events...........Oh My!
@ your public library.........
Do you have any parents or grandparents that are wanting to learn more English? Have them check out the free ESL class available at The Colony Public Library at 10:30-12pm on Saturday, May 2nd.
Are you a book lover?
Then you might want to consider joining a book club! North DFW Broader Horizons Book Club is meeting on May 3rd, 4-6 pm, at Roots Coffee Shop in North Richlands Hills to discuss a classic, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Click here for more information. According to their website, the group is about "laughing, talking, eating, socializing, drinking, and having fun".
Keeping Tradition Alive - Free Concert
The Lewisville Fire Department Pipes & Drums will hold their annual event: Keeping Tradition Alive and host a free concert on Friday, May 8, 6 - 11 pm. Admission is free. More information about this family event can be found here.
Chalk This Way!
"So I took a big chance at the high school dance".......ooops, wait a minute, wrong phrase......darn I can't get that Aerosmith song out of my head now. Anyway, "Chalk This Way!" is a sidewalk arts festival in Lewisville sponsored by the Greater Lewisville Arts Alliance, Lewisville Chamber of Commerce and The Colony Chamber of Commerce. Admission is free to this fun, family event. Find all the details here.
Grab some popcorn and head on over to Reel Voices
Reel Voices is a very unique film festival presented by Lewisville ISD. The short films entered in the festival are created by students in grades PreK - 12. Join me at the Red Carpet Event on May 29th. Click here for the time and other information.
Storybird
Want a crazy, fun, new writing station? Check out Storybird.com, and let students loose creating stories and/or poetry using this site's great images and graphics for inspiration. Click on the red bar above to see a poem I created at the site.
Mrs. Fisanick
Email: fisanicke@lisd.net
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/centralibrarian/
Location: 4431 Augusta Street, The Colony, TX, United States
Phone: 972-350-1236
Twitter: @librarian_lizzy