DANA LIBRARY

2024 -2025Welcome! Here is some information to begin your year here at Dana Middle. All students will check out a laptop and charger in order to complete school assignments. You may have one from Elementary or gr 5*. Please bring it charged each day ready to use on campus. IF you are new to our site a laptop and charger have been checked out to you and are ready for pickup in the library. Please review this presentation for how to take care of your Chromebook ( aka "laptop" or " device"):Chromebook Care _ Dana Middle _ gr 5 and 6 *Students now in Grade 6 will be receiving a new model. This will occur during 6th period beginning on Thursday, Aug 15. Your 6th period teacher will alert you (at minimum) the day before to remind you to remove painters tape from your Chromebook AND bring your charger on that day. At Dana you should not have any stickers on your borrowed school device - only painters tape with your last name. Textbooks are checked out to you and already available in classrooms for your reference. Students have access in Clever for any online portions of class materials.
Continue to:Check at home (or at relatives) for any library books or textbooks that have not been returned. Library books from another school site must be returned to that school. (Example: checked out at Dewey Elementary? return to the main office at Dewey.
A message from our district IT department: IF you have a hotspot ( wireless assist) checked out and no longer need it, find the box it came in, pack it up and bring it to school. Ask for a pass to return it to our library here at Dana.

Library Hours

before school: 7:50 am to return items, pick up a book

If you placed a hold: when a book is ready for pickup you will receive an email via your @stu.sandi.net account + your ELA teacher

within the school day: ask for a pass, then bring pass and planner or your ID card from picture day

library closed first part of per. 5 (12:46-1:31)

after dismissal: until 3pm M,T,W,F / 12:55pm 1/2day (Th)

(please make prior arrangements with your ride or communicate with a family member if you intend to stop by the library after school)

Destiny

What have I borrowed from the library? What should I return ? ( return all textbooks and library books from previous years ) please login to Destiny to see what you have checked out :

📖 Destiny 📖

enter this URL: destiny.sandi.net

or click any Destiny logo or word within this webpage

select: Middle Schools , then Dana Middle School

login with your student ID and password

click on the My Info tab

note: when you are logged in the MyInfo tab will display items you currently have borrowed from a school , either ours or an Elementary site.

Please return any items borrowed from your Elementary school.

How do I know what is happening at school?

Dana School website

PLEASE READ WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS for updated school information

to receive eBlasts :

make sure parent/guardian email is correct in PowerSchool

Current textbooks and workbooks:

gr 6: Ancient Civ' (return end of year) Amplify Desmos Math ( vol 1, 2 ) (keep) gr 5: Reflections (return end of year) Desmos (keep) Science Resources (in class) / return if you have one

While attending Dana: If you have lost a library book or textbook please go to the library to receive a printout and directions on how to make a donation to replace a lost item. Donations will be accepted with the assistance of our financial clerk. First notice: A printout is stacked with the Social Studies textbooks if you are a returning student to Dana and have a book to return or if you have a book from your Elementary site

Parents/Guardians:

- Please ask your child to login to Destiny and click the My Info tab to see what items have been borrowed from Dana Middle School. http://destiny.sandi.net/?site=138

Students will keep laptop and charger over the summer.

remember your laptop is a loaned item from school to complete classwork and homework assignments, please no downloads, no personalization, no gaming , please keep it in your backpack during lunch time, remember to walk with your laptop closed if you are carrying it between classes or walking with it, Again, Please review the Chromebook care presentation