News from the Learning Commons
November Edition- Happy Thanksgiving!
Event Information
Save the Date! Scholastic Book Fair Comes to the Library
Looking to do some holiday shopping? Come to the Scholastic Book Fair! Mention the code 'Libraries are Awesome' and receive 15% off your purchase. (Limited to Faculty and Staff Adults) Help support the Lower School Library!
When?
Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015, 08:00 AM
Where?
Library Conference Room
Thanksgiving Interactive
If you haven't seen Scholastic's The First Thanksgiving, it is worth taking a look at with your students. It is full of resources such as historical letters, photos and videos.
Ever wonder about cornucopias? Wonder no more! Wonderopolis.org is a great site for students of all ages to learn more about everyday wonders. The site provides videos, pictures and even a vocabulary quiz. Great for individual work or whole group work on the Smartboard!
Looking for a video to share with your students? Learn360 has some Thanksgiving themed videos for all age groups. (Contact us for your log in information)
Padlet for Thanksgiving
Post Ideas- Gather Comments
Padlet is a back-channel tool that you can use on so many levels. Some ideas for Thanksgiving:
- Use as a back-channel tool for class discussions or have students post questions while watching a video
- Share what you are thankful for and post the Padlet to your onCampus page
- Gather resources for your students
- Use as a KWL chart (click on below example)
Read a Book Over Break!
Stop by and take a book home with you over Thanksgiving break. See below for some recommendations. Prefer an eBook but don't know how to access our OverDrive collection? Contact us for your information. (Lending periods for eBooks have been extended to 21 days to accommodate students reading over break)
HAVE A RECOMMENDATION? Add it to our Padlet - let staff know what you would recommend.
All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
Three Little Words
An inspiring true story of the tumultuous nine years Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent in the foster care system, and how she triumphed over painful memories and real-life horrors to ultimately find her own voice.
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system.
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system.
The Wright Brothers
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.
Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.
Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Check out our YA Section
When you go to a bookstore and you want a mystery- where do you go? To the Mystery Section! We have changed our YA section to reflect more of a book store model- books are grouped into genres. We hope that will help students to find books that meet their interest.