Dear families,
Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for all of our students and parents! We hope our students have found great resources through our Learning Commons and are settled into the school year! Part of being an online student is taking care of one’s digital footprint. We hope you will share some of the following resources with your students.
Announcements & Reminders
- It’s Digital Citizenship Week!
- Explore Digital Citizenship Resources for Family Engagement and tools to support healthy media and tech use from Common Sense Education.
- Middle-grade students can use BrainPop to learn about Digital Citizenship training or complete our Digital Literacy kit.
- The White Hatter has videos on demand on specific topics!
Parent Events & Webinars
- How do I use the Unit Study Kits Webinar? Presented by Rachael Rennie on October 22nd at 12 pm. Join through this LC Zoom Link.
Student Highlights & Contests
- Dewey’s Bookopoly Challenge: An Independent Reading Challenge October 7th – December 6th
- Sleepy Animals Storytime on October 29 at 10am. Preschoolers are welcome. Register here.
- Dewey’s Book Highlight! – The Berenstain Bears Get Involved
- Collaborative Sticker Art Project! – You finished the last mystery project in a week! Well done, everyone! What will this new one, called Library Love, be?
Resource Updates & Tips
- The Prenda Dyslexia program was highlighted this week on the curriculum chat as an excellent resource for struggling readers. Thanks, Rachael!
- Check out the new Digital Literacy Mini Unit Study Kit for Grades 6-9 in the Physical Learning Commons!
- New curriculum for Middle School! Lightning Literature & Composition Level Storm Gr. 6-8 is now available in the Search Portal.
- Our Supersonics Phonic readers based on The Science of Reading are back on Sora. Click on the different levels in our Collections area.
Blessings From The Learning Commons
