Celebrating Dot Day!

This week third and fourth grade students are sharing their creativity in the library! Students are listening to the story The Dot by Peter Reynolds. In this story, the main character, Vashti, shares her creativity through her drawings. You can read more about International Dot Day here.

After the story, students were able to show their creativity with drawing on The Dot color page from Quiver. Quiver is a free augmented reality 3D coloring app. Students were able to use iPads to see their coloring in 3D. They had a blast! Click on the videos below to see their work.

3rd Grade Dots

4th Grade Dots

Iowa Book Award Lists 2017-2018

Are you looking for a good book to read? Take a look at the books on the following lists:

Iowa Goldfinch Award list (grades K-3)

Iowa Children's Choice Award list (grades 3-6)

          Booktrailers for ICCA books

Iowa Teen Award List (grades 6-9)

          Booktrailers for ITA books

Iowa High School Book Award List (grades 9-12)

          Booktrailers for IHSBA 

We have e-books!

Your student has access to many fiction and nonfiction e-books through MackinVIA. Students can read a MackinVIA e-book on many different devices. MackinVIA has free apps for the iPad, iPod, iPhone, Mac,  Android, Chromebook, Kindle, and Windows.

Username and password information for logging in to MackinVIA can be obtained from your school library.

Here’s a video created by MackinVIA that gives an overview of different features in MackinVIA.

Digital Citizenship

Third and fourth grade students have spent the last two weeks learning how to be safe on the internet. I've compiled some great resources for digital citizenship in a symbaloo. Students had a great time learning how to be a good digital citizen!

We're off to a great start!

Humboldt Middle School students share what they read.

Students sharing what they read

We have started a display in the middle school library where students can share what they read. It's off to a great start! I can't wait to watch our display fill up with fantastic titles to read!

Finding our way in the library

Our elementary students are working on using the library independently!