📚The Library Lowdown

This year we celebrate the first Indigenous Caldecott Winner (most distinguished American picture book for children), We Are Water Protectors, written by Carol Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goad.

This Destiny Collection not only includes the list of the winners but also has links to posters, an explanation of each award, the award ceremony, and resources for the winning books.

I adapted this Black History Month Destiny collection created by Shannon Miller, librarian extraordinaire, to provide all kinds of resources for Black History Month. You will find Storyboard That activities, tools for teaching Black History Month from Edutopia, and Black History Month Activities, History, Timeline, Ideas, Events, Facts and Quizzes from Fact Monster, and so much more.

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If your students have enjoyed the 4J Virtual Field Trips these past few months highlighting great places in our community then they will love Shannon Miller's around the world virtual field trips (click the image below)! These are so fun! She has two slides full of fantastic places to "visit"! Hopper the Explorer (the penguin) is one of my favorites! Oh, but then there's the top of the Eiffel Tower, the rain forest, the Great Wall of China...The travel bug in me is all excited!

A couple of hints:

1. Be sure to click on the little red link in the upper, right corner of each "ticket".
2. To navigate to page 2, click the arrow to the right of where it says 1 of 2 in the blue bar at the bottom of the page.

You can download the QR code to the right here to share with your students.

Have fun!

Check out this exciting opportunity offered from Follett:

On February 3, 2021 at 11:00am CT we are excited to bring you New York Times best-selling and Newbery Honor-winning author Jennifer L. Holm who will discuss her out-of-this-world new novel about a kid raised on Mars that learns that he can't be held back by the fears of the grown-ups around him.

We hope this event will:

• Introduce students to an author they might not already be familiar with allowing for an author/reader relationship to develop.
• Give students a better understanding of the author’s viewpoint on the story to deepen their investment in the book or series.
• Bring writing to life and, in turn, ignite the inspiration of reading.

We are excited to offer you this event to either watch live with your students in the classroom (or stream while eLearning)! Can’t attend live? All registrants will also receive the recording to share with their students.

Share this link with your students to register to attend live or get a recording. Teachers can also register to attend live or get the recording to watch with your class.

Hundreds of new, diverse, high-interest ebooks and audiobooks have arrived in Sora! Want to start up your Book Love program? This is the place to encourage students to explore books that are available to ALL 4J students for free. The app is on all 4J iPads. Students with phones can easily download the app on their phone for easy access on the go, or navigate to soraapp.com in a browser on any device. There are books for adults too and some new audiobooks for professional learning too!

The February Choice Board is here! You will find links to Destiny Collections highlighting resources for President's Day and Black History Month and there are choice boards with Valentine's Day activities and Ground Hog's Day too!

Middle school battles will begin on February 24th @ 10 AM for teams that have signed up. The bracket will be set next week.

Elementary battles will be a bit non-traditional given the number of teams we have, but they will begin at the end of the month on February 25th.

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