Month: September 2021

Building Belonging- diversity, Scholastic Book Club, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Scholastic Digi-Flyer, Orange Shirt Day, and Spotlight on Graphic Novels

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September Digi-FlyerReading Club: Class Code

Our school will be participating in the Scholastic Reading Program again this year.  If your child’s homeroom teacher runs this program through the classroom, then please order through that.  However if your child’s teacher does not participate, you are welcome to use my school-wide code!  Your order will ship to your home and you can order online whenever you’d like!  When you enter the ‘class code’, your order earns 20% back for new books for our school library.  Orders over $40 are free shipping.

Use this for the Class code – RC391237

 

Orange Shirt Day is coming up this week on September 30.  Again our school will be observing this day in various age-appropriate ways in the classrooms and as a whole school.  We will discuss why Every Child Matters and how all people should be treated with love and respect.  We will be working on a wall display this week as well and I will post pictures of that next week.  Be sure to wear an orange shirt on Thursday.

I started a new special ‘graphic novel section’ in our school library this year so I thought I’d post about graphic novels!  Here is an infographic I made about the benefits of graphic novels.  See below for information about graphic novels that may be appealing or helpful to your child. Have a great week HHCS!

 

Graphic Novels Can Turn Reluctant Readers Into Lifelong Book Lovers

12 Outrageously Funny Graphic Novels for Reluctant Young Readers

7 Graphic Novels Elementary Schoolers Love

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A Mighty Girl

Apps and websites, Building Belonging- diversity, Digital Literacy, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Common Sense Media Resources, How to Choose a Book, and Hispanic Heritage Month

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It was so nice to see so many families come through on Friday night for a visit to the school!  I enjoyed having you all come through the library with your children.  Thanks for stopping in!

Here is a link to a presentation I made for our school about Digital Citizenship.  I used resources from Common Sense Media which is an amazing site for parents and educators.  I hope that you will find this useful and refer back to it during the school year.  (link below.)

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Digital Citizenship for Families

You can also go to this link from Common Sense Media and get free text message tips about how to promote healthy media habits with your family!

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/techbalance

The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has a very helpful article about how to choose a book for your kids.  It has general advice and then also specific advice for each age group and for different book genres.

How To Choose A Book

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month!  Let’s celebrate with some great books.

15 Picture Books That Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage

14 New Children’s and YA Books That Celebrate Hispanic Heritage

Picture Books for Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month

Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics
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I have a whiteboard outside the library where I am starting to post a ‘library question of the week’ for students to write their answers.  The first week’s question was “What was a great book that you read this summer?” and the current question is “Where do you like to read?” How about you?  Feel free to leave a comment below!  Have a great week HHCS and don’t forget about Culture and Curriculum Night on Wednesday!

Building Belonging- diversity, Events, Social-Emotional

Welcome Back to School! HHCS Library Re-Opens, Back to School Books, and Back to School Night on Friday

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Welcome back to school HHCS!  I can’t believe it’s been 5 months since the students have been in the building!  I am so excited to present to you our newly re-opened and newly decorated library.  Most of the library had to be dismantled last year to use the space for an extra classroom to keep the class sizes smaller for the pandemic.  This year we are so excited to welcome students back to their library, back to their gym, back to a newly landscaped back forest with outdoor learning space, and back to a newly decorated front entrance of the school.  Thank you so much to the volunteers who helped me to move and unpack boxes and to shelve everything back in order in the library- I couldn’t have done it without you!  It is so great to be in the library space and I love being able to have classes in there as well as wave at everyone as they go down the hall while I am working at the desk.

Last call for the summer reading challenge!  If you forgot to send it back and your child did complete it, please send along either the printed copy or you can email me a copy of the digital version.  Students will earn an HHCS seal.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yoeOFsUhI6mMQJObBHHimiSA1X8fXEZNzJ_GEqHbYqs/edit?usp=sharing

This past week some classes enjoyed back to school books like The Day You Begin by Jaqueline Woodson and You’re Finally Here! by Melanie Watt. That’s definitely how all the HHCS staff felt this week- the students were finally back! What a great feeling!

Friday night will be a modified version of our usual HHCS Back to School Night.  Be sure to check Sycamore for details.  I will be in the library handing out bookmarks and a page of resources for parents!  Come and say hi!