BHS Library Media Center Newsletter

September & October

Welcome BHS Families

This newsletter is your chance to get a peek into what your student is doing in library. If you have any questions pegan@sheltonpublicschools.org

Kindergarten and First Grade Update

Students in Kindergarten and first grade have been very busy. We started the school year talking about firefighters and what they do to help us. In this unit students learned about the equipment that firefighters wear, the vehicles they drive and so much more. Once we completed that unit we moved on to improving our computer skills. Students have been going on the website typetastic where they work on locating keys getting use to using a mouse. At home if you have free time the children can go on the computer and keep working on typetastic . We also spent the month of October explore books about fall and even did some creepy tales. The students really enjoyed Creepy Carrots and the Creepy Crayon.

2nd-4th grade

We started the school year off by going over the library routine, setting up our google classroom and going over how to check out books. Once this was established we learned how to use nearpod. Nearpod is a interactive presentation tool that we will be using when we learn about digital citizenship. Our big goal for our older students is

Creepy Tales

Students in all grades at BHS got a chance to enjoy the listening to Creepy Carrots and Creepy Crayon. In Creepy Carrots The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch in this clever story about a rabbit who fears his favorite treats are out to get him. One of the great themes of the story is how to solve a problem by thinking out of the box.

In Creepy Crayon Jasper is flunking everything except art and is desperate for help when he finds the crayon. “Purple. Pointy…perfect”—and alive. Jasper is only a little creeped out until the crayon changes his art—the one area where Jasper excels—into something better. As guilt-ridden Jasper receives accolade after accolade for grades and work that aren’t his, the crayon becomes more and more possessive of Jasper’s attention and affection, and it is only when Jasper cannot take it anymore that he discovers just what he’s gotten himself into.

Hoopla Digital

Hoopla is a web and mobile library media streaming platform for audio books, comics, e-books, and more. Students at Booth Hill School have access to hoopla for free when they use there Shelton Public Library Card. Follow the slide show for instructions on how to set up your account.

Every year that I have been at BHS, I am astounded at the character pumpkins that our students make. Please enjoy the BHS Character Pumpkin Patch.

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Holding books in Destiny

Students in grades 2-4 are placing holds on books in destiny this year. Every day in the media center we will run a report to let us know which books are being held and then we place them in their classrooms teachers mailbox. We will send home overdue notices every two weeks. If you see a notice with a book from last year please try your best to find it and return it to school.

Epic Books

Students at booth hill have access to epic books. They just need to do the following steps to access thousands of books

1 Go to www.getepic.com/students

2 Enter class code xae7320

3 Select your grade level

Makerspace Materials

The BHS Makerspace is in need of the following Materials

Toilet Paper Rolls
Paper Towel Rolls

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