

Boyd Elementary Media Minute
October 2023

Media Center Update
STEAM Resource
STEAM: Resource of the Month
🎶🔬 Dive into Science with Flocabulary's Ultimate Learning Jam! 🎶✨
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🚀 **Engaging Content:**
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🔬 **Comprehensive Science Tools:**
Explore a treasure trove of resources designed to bring science to life! With interactive videos, quizzes, lesson plans, and activities, our science tools cover the spectrum of topics and help students grasp science concepts effortlessly.
🌟 **Aligned with Standards:**
Flocabulary's science resources are meticulously aligned with educational standards, ensuring that your students are on the right track while enjoying the learning journey.
💡 **Teacher-Friendly Platform:**
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Literacy
Buzzer Readers
The Georgia Tech Women’s Basketball team would like to invite our children to participate in their annual “Buzzer Readers” reading program. Buzzer Readers is an initiative to promote and encourage children to learn through reading. We are excited for the new incentives that will surround the program! It will be held in conjunction with the start of the Women’s Basketball season. All elementary school students from Atlanta Public Schools are eligible to participate and top readers will have an opportunity to go on a field trip to GT’s opening game on Monday, November 6th. The competition will begin on Tuesday, September 5th and will end on Thursday, October 5th.
Novel Effect Read Aloud Trick or Treat Challenge!
Read any book in the Trick-or-Read-Aloud Challenge collection, with your Novel Effect app from 12:00 AM PT October 1, 2023 through 11:59 PM PT October 31, 2023, to be entered.
5 READ-ALOUD ROCKSTARS WILL RECEIVE:
- 3 picture books
- One 1-year Novel Effect Premium subscription
- 100 Novel Effect spine stickers
- One Bluetooth speaker
Want an extra entry? Read another title! Each of your read-alouds with an eligible soundscape counts so, the more you read, the more chances you have to win!Username: email@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Password: apsreads
SEL
Research Resources
Class Pass
Did you know Atlanta Public Schools staff and students have a digital library card? Thanks to our partnership with the Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, APS students and staff have access to dozens of resources, including online databases, eBooks, eAudiobooks, streaming videos, as well as hundreds of thousands of books available at public libraries.
APS STAFF
Username: lawson number
PIN: CHANGEME
APS STUDENTS
Username: Network ID
PIN: lunch number
October Calendar
ISC: Teacher Resource Room
Instructional Services Center (ISC) Teacher Resource Room
Good morning. Teacher Resource Room at the Instructional Services Center (ISC) is a fantastic resource that provides laminators (of all sizes), poster printers, die cut machines,3D printers, etc. for free! It is located a stone’s throw from the illustrious Morehouse Medical School at 433 Peeples Street, SW, Atlanta, GA 30310. You can reserve a slot on Monday and Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM or Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday from 8AM to 6 PM. To make a reservation, please click here. Walk-ins are also accepted.
William M. Boyd Media Center
Location: 1891 Johnson Road Northwest, Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone: 404-802-8166
Twitter: @BoydElementaryM