Mahoney Library Blast
Make the most of the library from home!
About the Library Blast
While we are learning from home during school closures, I hope to send daily emails every weekday morning. These messages will include cool and interesting websites, videos, book recommendations and more, so that we can stay connected and keep learning!
I want to hear from you!
Please share:
- Memes
- Photos of your pets
- Your art or comics
- Recipes
- Book recommendations or reviews
- Other TV, movie, game or media recommendations
- Playlists
- Funny or uplifting videos
Please email me anything you would like to share at gartleel@spsdme.org!
Sora
Sora is an app that provides access to a collection of ebooks and audiobooks that we share with Memorial and the High School. This slideshow will help you login if you haven't used Sora before. If you have any trouble logging in or using Sora, please email me at gartleel@spsdme.org. If there is an ebook or audiobook you are looking for that you can't find on Sora, please let me know, and I will do my best to find it for you!
Junior Library Guild
Junior Library Guild is currently offering free access to their online ebook collection. You can access more free ebooks by visiting jlg.ipublishcentral.com (or downloading the JLG Digital app on a personal device) and signing in with the username JLGMID and the password JLGFREE.
Epic!
Epic! is another online ebook collection. You can access Epic! by downloading the app or visiting https://www.getepic.com/students and using the class code wtt8334. Epic! has tons of books, comics, audiobooks, and videos. Epic! can only be accessed during the school day.
Wednesday, April 8
International Day of Pink
The International Day of Pink has one purpose, to create a more inclusive and diverse world. Organizers encourage young people to challenge social norms, ask more of their educators, and stand up against bullying towards their LGBTQ+ peers.
Draw A Bird Day
Draw A Bird Day began in 1943 when seven-year-old Dorie Cooper went to visit her uncle, who was recuperating in the hospital after losing his leg in the war. To help cheer him up, Dorie asked him to draw a bird for her.
International Romani Day
International Romani Day is a day to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues facing Romani people. (Although the Romani people are commonly known as g*psies, this is generally considered a pejorative or nasty term by Romani themselves and many others.)
Drawing a Black-capped Chickadee with David Allen Sibley
Romani or Gypsies? | Dijana Pavlovic | TEDxBocconiU
Who Are The 'Gypsies'?
Yesterday's Winner
Who would win: An evil doll who really, really has to pee and has no depth perception OR a musketeer who is a stuffed animal and is 10 stories tall? Winner: Musketeer. Reason: "10 stories is reallllllllly tall," and "The musketeer probably has depth perception," and "Because the doll really has to pee and you can’t do anything when you really have to pee."
Wall of Birds
The Wall of Birds is a mural at Cornell Lab of Ornithology which displays the diversity and evolution of birds from 243 different families and across 375 million years. The Wall of Birds website has an interactive version of the mural which allows the viewer to explore extant birds and extinct bird relatives and ancestors, like the Yutyrannus, Archaeopteryx, Microraptor, and Phorusrhacos, or Terror Bird.
LeVar Burton Reads
LeVar Burton, well-known for his long-time role on Reading Rainbow, is doing weekly live story readings on Twitter. Young adult readings are Wednesdays at 3 p.m., and readings for children are Mondays at 9 a.m. You can tune in on LeVar's Twitter @levarburton.
Summer Festival of the Arts
Summer Festival of the Arts, a summer arts camp in Bar Harbor, is offering a variety of online arts classes, including drawing, origami, make up art and design, song and rhythm, and more! All classes are free, but do require registration. Find more information on their website.
Mx Gartley
Stay in touch: email me at gartleel@spsdme.org to share what you're reading, a playlist you're listing to, what show you're binging or anything else. Also feel free to email me if you need help finding a book, audiobook, or any other resources!
Email: gartleel@spsdme.org
Website: http://libguides.spsd.org/mahoney
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