Monthly Media Minute
Chantilly Montessori Media Center
November 2015
Please take a moment to complete our first parent survey!
November is Picture Book Month!
What's your favorite picture book? Add your favorite picture book title to our school Padlet:
Looking for book recommendations for your child? Try out one of these online resources:
BookHive - a resource of the CM Library
NovelList K-8 via NC WiseOwl (home access password was sent home in September).
Spaghetti Book Club - book reviews by kids for kids
What's New?
Students may now access their school library accounts and the Follett Shelf ebooks with new passwords. Login information for Destiny was sent home in Thursday folders in October.
Author Claudia Mills visited Chantilly on Friday, Nov. 6!
Author Claudia Mills talks about her books.
Claudia also spoke about her writing process.
Claudia does her Ape Dance from her Tarzan book.
Primary students are learning about familiar folk tales and story elements.
Lower el students are doing an author study of Paul Galdone and learning about folk tales and story elements as well.
Upper el students recently completed their digital brochures about the three regions of NC in Google docs! They are beginning a unit on fiction text structure and fiction authors.
What's Needed?
Shelving helpers daily during arrival (8:45 - 9:15 am) and Tuesday afternoons (3:30 - 4:00 pm). Hugs and thanks to all who have recently come in to volunteer!