Events and Other Information
- Library Loyalty Cards - Help spread the word about the Library's Loyalty Card Program. Get a stamp each time you check out a book from the library. Once you have filled your card with 10 stamps, you get to place it in a bowl for an end-of-semester drawing for lots of great prizes. (No limit on the number of entries) **Loyalty cards are open to all students and staff (Note - these are books that you are reading not classroom resources)
- Teacher Book Club - February 27th at RES in the library. We will be reading "The Perfect Family" by Lorna Dounaeva. This book is a fast-paced psychological thriller. See description HERE
- February is Black History Month - Come celebrate in the library and check out our Gallery Walk that is complete with QR codes giving more information on each of the individuals featured.
What is Ms. Talbert Currently Reading...
Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days.
Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost. (Publisher's Summary)
Pit Stop PD - Google Slides Closed Captioning
In order to provide closed captioning in Google Slides - Click "slideshow" and then hover your mouse over the bottom left corner of the slide and click on the "3 dots". Click on "Captions Preferences" and choose the caption location that work best for your class.
This feature is great for …
- Students who have hearing disabilities
- Students whose first language isn’t English
- Students in a noisy room
- Students who like to process ideas through written word
Check out the video below on how simple it is to start using closed captioning in your classroom
Friendly Library Reminders:
1. Please do not send a student to the library to check out a Chromebook loaner for the day or for use in your classroom. We do not issue loaners for the day, we only issue loaners when students bring their Chromebooks to us to be repaired.
If you have Chromebooks left in your classroom that have not been checked out to you - PLEASE return them to the library.
Additionally, click HERE for the link to the Shared Calendar. This will allow you to see when spaces are available.
2. Please do not send more than three students at a time to the library and each student should have their own pass. Also, it is important to note that if you send a student to the library for testing, they will not be monitored closely unless you make prior arrangements with Ms. Talbert or Ms. Lawson.
Thank you so much!