Finch Elementary Media Center

Celebrating Black Authors

During the whole month of September, librarians are partnering with Netflix Bookmarks to celebrate black voices in literature. Librarians have worked with Netflix to provide resources that related to the new series Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices.

Bookmarks is a collection of 12 episodes featuring different Black celebrities reading children's books from black authors. These celebrities include Tiffany Haddish, Common, and Lupita N'yong'o. Each video is created to show the Black experience and spark conversations about self-awareness, respect, justice, and action.

To supplement the series, Librarians from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association have complied a list of fun activities for young readers, and members of the Association of Library Service to Children have shared links to resources about how families can connect with children's library professionals to assist in their children's learning and development. The materials are available on the Bookmarks website.

You can view the series of episodes on Netflix Bookmarks or watch them for free on the Netflix Jr YouTube page.

Information retreived on 9/4/20 from http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/librarians-partner-netflix-support-%E2%80%9Cbookmarks-celebrating-black-voices%E2%80%9D

SEL Book

This month's Social Emotional Learning book is Sulwe. It is written by Lupita N'yong'o and illustrated by Vashti Williams.

Sulwe tells the story of a little girl who "was born the color of midnight" and is treated differently than her lighter-skinned friends and family members because of it. The tale takes a magical turn when a star comes in her bedroom and takes her on a mythical journey ending in her own self-love and appreciation of the brightness and beauty of her complexion.

Free Creativity

If you are looking to keep your child busy after school hours, please consider registering your child for free art classes. Parents of kids kindergarten through twelfth grades can register their child for a free month of art classes. The classes take place virtually on Mondays-Saturdays at 6:00PM. For more information visit the Creativity Classes for Kids website.

Class Pass

Last week I visited all grade level meetings to introduce to some and refresh others on the digital resources that are available through the AFPLS ClassPass. AFPLS ClassPass is a digital resource database offered through the Fulton Public Library. Please be sure to use these resources and encourage your class to use them as well. Remember you are able to get electronic texts easily for you and your students to view and read online. Additionally, every staff member and student has borrowing privileges from the library branches as well. Here are a few e-resources that we discussed last week.


Hoopla Staff members and students have access to a plethora of digital resources. Users have the option to read or listen to materials simultaneously in Hoopla. All you have to do is sign up for a free account using your email address. When you are prompted to select your participating library, select the Fulton Public Library. Staff, your library card is your Lawson number. The student's library card is their Network ID (sblake1234).	Overdrive Staff members and students have access to read books online. The Overdrive database differs from Hoopla in that there are limited copies of a particular book. Users cannot read the same book simultaneously. Staff Library Card: Lawson Number Password: changeme Students Library Card: Network ID (sblake1234) Password: lunch number (23456)	eRead Kids Staff members and students have access to read books online. The eRead Kids differs from Hoopla in there are limited copies of a particular book. Users may not be able to read the same book simultaneously. Staff Library Card: Lawson Number Password: changeme Students Library Card: Network ID (sblake1234) Password: lunch number (23456)

Hoopla

Staff members and students have access to a plethora of digital resources. Users have the option to read or listen to materials simultaneously in Hoopla. All you have to do is sign up for a free account using your email address. When you are prompted to select your participating library, select the Fulton Public Library. Staff, your library card is your Lawson number. The student's library card is their Network ID (sblake1234).

Overdrive

Staff members and students have access to read books online. The Overdrive database differs from Hoopla in that there are limited copies of a particular book. Users cannot read the same book simultaneously.

Staff Library Card: Lawson Number

Password: changeme

Students Library Card: Network ID (sblake1234)

Password: lunch number (23456)

eRead Kids

Staff members and students have access to read books online. The eRead Kids differs from Hoopla in there are limited copies of a particular book. Users may not be able to read the same book simultaneously.

Staff Library Card: Lawson Number

Password: changeme

Students Library Card: Network ID (sblake1234)

Password: lunch number (23456)


My ON MyON is a digital platform that has over 6,000 books. It is located on MyBackpack. Students are able to access this app from their devices.Teachers, you have the ability to create projects for students to engage in as well. All of the ebooks in MyON have Accelerated Reader quizzes. Please remind your kids to log on and start reading. Students in grades first through fifth would use their Network Login credentials to access. Pre-k and kindergarten students will go to myon.com to get access. Their login is the following: Username: student Password: books	Race2Read Thanks to all of you for allowing me to visit your grade level meetings last week to share Race2Read/Beanstack. This year's goal is 520,000 minutes in order to help our district reach the 10 million minutes mark. Please remember to log the minutes you read teachers, additionally, please remind your students and parents to log their time as well. We had a competiton over the summer for the top student reader to log the most minutes. Our winner of that challenge is Alyvia Malone! Super job! We will have more challenges throughout the school year and ask that you log your minutes daily. You just might be the next winner.	Accelerated Reader Accelerated Reader is a computer-based program that is used to monitor reading practice and progress. It helps teachers guide kids to books that are on kids’ individual reading levels. Kids take short quizzes after reading a book to check if they’ve understood it. Students have access to Accelerated Reader through the Mybackpack Platform. Please remind students that they can use books read from MyOn.

My ON

MyON is a digital platform that has over 6,000 books. It is located on MyBackpack. Students are able to access this app from their devices.Teachers, you have the ability to create projects for students to engage in as well. All of the ebooks in MyON have Accelerated Reader quizzes. Please remind your kids to log on and start reading. Students in grades first through fifth would use their Network Login credentials to access. Pre-k and kindergarten students will go to myon.com to get access. Their login is the following:

Username: student

Password: books

Race2Read

Thanks to all of you for allowing me to visit your grade level meetings last week to share Race2Read/Beanstack. This year's goal is 520,000 minutes in order to help our district reach the 10 million minutes mark. Please remember to log the minutes you read teachers, additionally, please remind your students and parents to log their time as well. We had a competiton over the summer for the top student reader to log the most minutes. Our winner of that challenge is Alyvia Malone! Super job! We will have more challenges throughout the school year and ask that you log your minutes daily. You just might be the next winner.

Accelerated Reader

Accelerated Reader is a computer-based program that is used to monitor reading practice and progress. It helps teachers guide kids to books that are on kids’ individual reading levels. Kids take short quizzes after reading a book to check if they’ve understood it. Students have access to Accelerated Reader through the Mybackpack Platform. Please remind students that they can use books read from MyOn.

Copyright/Fair Use Information

Many publishing companies have extended permissions to read their books aloud over the internet. However, there are certain things you should remember before you begin.

Make sure you are reading in a closed forum.
Reading to your class on Zoom or Google Meet is permissible.
If you decide to post the recording of the Zoom or Google Meet, it must be posted in a closed forum like Google Classroom. However, it must be removed by the end of the school year.
If you are uploading a video of you reading into YouTube. The link must be marked as unlisted. This will only allow those with the link to gain access. You should not post this link on any platform that will be public(i.e public web pages, twitter post or Facebook).
Last, please acknowledge to the Publishing company's permission by saying, "This book is being shared with permission of ___________________(insert publishing company's name).

Ms. Nartasha Smith, Media Specialist

smithfn@atlanta.k12.ga.us 404-802-4015

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Finch Elementary Media Center

September Newsletter Version 1

Finch Elementary Media Center

September Newsletter Version 1

Celebrating Black Authors

SEL Book

Free Creativity

Free Hot Meals

Class Pass

Hoopla

Overdrive

eRead Kids

Hoopla

Overdrive

eRead Kids

My ON

Race2Read

Accelerated Reader

My ON

Race2Read

Accelerated Reader

Copyright/Fair Use Information

Ms. Nartasha Smith, Media Specialist

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