DOLVIN MEDIA CENTER
  • Home
  • About Me
  • MC News
    • Resources for Teachers
  • Birthday Book Club

Media Center News for May

5/3/2022

0 Comments

 
Our May Choice Board is all about May Celebrations and check out our Summer Reading Resources for Dolvin Students!
Click to set custom HTML

Made with Padlet

Made with Padlet

We have been having a blast in the Media Center with our Makerspace! We have worked with  Cubelets, made origami bookmarks and are creating ways to keep the rabbits out of our gardens with Novel Engineering and the book Muncha, Muncha, Muncha!

The school year is winding down and we are looking forward to summer! Please help your students return their books to the Media Center. All books are due by Wednesday, May 18th!
Picture
0 Comments

Media Center News for April

3/30/2022

0 Comments

 
We hope everyone has a wonderful Spring Break!
Here is our April Choice Board where students can learn about Earth Day, Special Holidays and Poetry Month!

Made with Padlet

Students have been busy in the Media Center learning about Famous Women in History for Women's History Month! We have used PebbleGo to create Biography Pyramids, Biography Hearts  & Bio Poems!

We also created Seussical Characters using Keva Planks and K'Nex to celebrate Read Across America!
We voted for our favorite GA Picture Book and Children's Book Award Nominees and submitted our votes to the state to be tallied. The winners are:
I AM A TIGER  by Karl Newson, illustrated by Ross Collins and WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed. Ask your student what book they voted for.
The school year is winding down, and overdue library books need to be returned! Please look at home for library books, thanks!
Picture
0 Comments

Media Center News for March

3/2/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Explore the March Choice Board where you will Learn About Dr. Seuss, St. Patrick's Day, Women's History Month and other March Celebrations!

Made with Padlet
We are reading and voting for our favorite Georgia Picture Book and Children's Book Award Nominees! Stay tuned to find out what book won for our school and state!
Our Vocabulary Parade was so much fun! Here is a photo of Mrs. Berkovich (Clorophyll) and I (Metamorphosis). We had so much fun participating in the Vocabulary Parade!
Picture
Picture
We are so proud of our Technology Competition Winners! Sanjay Received 1st Place in the Category of Productivity Design and will compete at the State Level! Eden and Emma Received 2nd Place in the Category of Mobile Apps and Arnav Received 3rd Place in the Category of Video Production! Congratulations to all of our winners and we wish  Sanjay Good Luck as he moves on in the Competition!
 
0 Comments

Media Center News for February

2/3/2022

0 Comments

 
Our Author Visit with Dion Leonard and Gobi is almost here! They will be here on Tuesday, February 8th and we are so excited to give them our letters and our donations to Furkids! Please see the Author Visit Padlet below for more information about donating and to see a Read Aloud of the picture book, Gobi: A Little Dog With A Big Heart.

Made with Padlet
Click to set custom HTML
February is Black History Month and we have been writing important words about Martin Luther King, Jr. and creating word clouds. See the February Choice Board below for more information about Martin Luther King, Jr., Black History Month, and Valentine's Day!

Made with Padlet
Our Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Team did a great job during our competition on Saturday, January 29th! We got 5th place out of 26 teams! We are so proud of the nine students on the team as well as the other students from our Reading Club for reading the 10 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominees!
Picture
0 Comments

Media Center News for January

1/4/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
We are having an Author Visit on Friday, January 21st with Dion Leonard and his adorable dog Gobi! Dion Leonard is the author of Finding Gobi, The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey. We will have books for sale, so stay tuned! Also, see below for the donation drive we will have for Furkids, Georgia’s Largest No Kill Animal Rescue & Shelter.
See the Finding Gobi Padlet Below!

In honor of our Author Visit on Friday, January 21st, with Dion Leonard and his adorable dog, Gobi, we are going to have a donation drive for Furkids, Georgia’s Largest No Kill Animal Rescue & Shelter.
                   Donations For Animals
  • Fancy Feast Classic Chicken
  • Friskies Chicken Dinner Wet Food
  • Pedigree Canned Dog Food (any variety)
  • Iams Kitten Wet Food (chicken or turkey only)
  • Fancy Feast Kitten Wet Food (chicken or turkey only)
  • Denta-Chews or Greenies
  • Interactive Dog Toys like Kong Products and Nylabone Products
Cleaning Supplies
  • Clorox Wipes (Clorox brand only)
  • Bleach
  • Liquid Hand Soap
  • Paper Towels
  • Dishwasher Tabs
  • Dish Washing Liquid
  • Large Size Resealable Storage Bags
  • Durable Kitchen Size Trash Bags
  • HE Laundry Detergent (unscented) or Powdered Laundry Detergent (unscented)

Made with Padlet
Picture
From January 1 to January 31, Dolvin Elementary School will participate in Beanstack’s Fifth Annual Winter Reading Challenge, “Read for a Better World.”  We challenge our students to read 5,000 minutes as a whole school during the month and keep track of their reading on our Beanstack site. Students can access Beanstack by logging into Classlink and then Click on eLibrary—you will see Beanstack there. Thousands of other libraries and schools across the nation are joining in too, for a chance at winning prizes including book collections, signed books, and virtual author visits. Happy reading, Dolphins! Unfortunately, there are no eBooks available for this challenge, but you can still do the activities. We also have a Financial Literacy Challenge where you can access eBooks through MackinVia. Click here  for more information about the Financial Literacy Challenge!

0 Comments

Media Center News for December

12/2/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
We are having an Author Visit on Friday, January 21st with Dion Leonard and his adorable dog Gobi! Dion Leonard is the author of Finding Gobi, The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey. We will have books for sale the week we get back from Winter Break, so stay tuned! Also, see below for the donation drive we will have for Furkids, Georgia’s Largest No Kill Animal Rescue & Shelter.

​In honor of our Author Visit on Friday, January 21st, with Dion Leonard and his adorable dog, Gobi, we are going to have a donation drive for Furkids, Georgia’s Largest No Kill Animal Rescue & Shelter.
                   Donations For Animals
  • Fancy Feast Classic Chicken
  • Friskies Chicken Dinner Wet Food
  • Pedigree Canned Dog Food (any variety)
  • Iams Kitten Wet Food (chicken or turkey only)
  • Fancy Feast Kitten Wet Food (chicken or turkey only)
  • Denta-Chews or Greenies
  • Interactive Dog Toys like Kong Products and Nylabone Products
Cleaning Supplies
  • Clorox Wipes (Clorox brand only)
  • Bleach
  • Liquid Hand Soap
  • Paper Towels
  • Dishwasher Tabs
  • Dish Washing Liquid
  • Large Size Resealable Storage Bags
  • Durable Kitchen Size Trash Bags
  • HE Laundry Detergent (unscented) or Powdered Laundry Detergent (unscented)
Enjoy the December Choice Board!

Made with Padlet
Picture
Deadline Reminder: The Technology Competition Registration is due by midnight on Saturday, December 4th. Please click here for more information!

Please help your students find and return their overdue library books before the Winter Holiday Break! 
Picture
0 Comments

Media Center News for November

10/28/2021

0 Comments

 
Enjoy our November Choice Board!

Made with Padlet
Picture
We have completed our Digital Citizenship Lessons and are ready to read the GA Picture Book Award Nominees! K-2nd Grade students will read the books and then research something from the book using PebbleGo! 3rd-4th Grade students will read at least 10 of the 20 books and will record their reading in Beanstack and pick a favorite book to create a Flipgrid Video about! All students will vote for their favorite book!  

Picture
Our Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Book Club is reading the GA Children's Book Award Nominees and 10 students from our club will participate in the Reading Bowl on January 29th!
Picture
Students enjoyed a Makerspace/Novel Engineering Lesson in the Media Center! We read the GA Picture Book Award Nominee, "Brick by Brick" and then built with Keva Planks and Legos! Here is an example of their creativity.
Picture
Picture

Attention 3rd-5th Grade Students! Click here for more information about the 2021-2022 Fulton County Technology Competition! 
2021-2022 FCS TECH COMPETITION ARE VIRTUAL ONLY
​REGISTRATION INFORMATION COMING SOON IN NOVEMBER 
TIMELINE INFORMATION: Mid-November ~ 12/4 (Saturday) - Student Registration
12/6 (Monday) ~ 12/16 (Thursday) - Project Submission Window
January - Judging Window
February - County Results Announced

0 Comments

Media Center News for October

10/1/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Thanks for helping make our Scholastic Book Fair a Huge Success! We were so busy I almost forgot to take any pictures! You can still buy books from our Homepage anytime! 

We have been learning about Digital Citizenship in the Media Center and should complete our Digital Citizenship Lessons by the end of October! Students have been learning about Media Balance, their Digital Footprint, how to Be Kind Online, and Internet Safety. Ask your student how to stop online meanness with STOP! All of our lessons are from Common Sense Media.
October Choice Board & Hispanic Heritage Month Choice Boards are here!

Made with Padlet

Made with Padlet
0 Comments

Media Center News for September

9/1/2021

0 Comments

 
Our Scholastic Book Fair will begin on Tuesday, September 7th with preview week! Students will come to the Book Fair with their class and create a wish list to take home. Beginning Monday, September 13th, students come to the Book Fair with their class to purchase books. Click here for information about creating eWallets, a letter from Ms. Cooke and more.
Picture
Students are learning how to be good Digital Citizens in the Media Center! Lessons for K-2nd grade are focusing on Media Balance and how important it is to have Media Balance. They are also learning a great way to Pause for People and why they need Device-Free Moments! Click here for the K-2nd grade Nearpod Lesson if you would like to go over it with your student!   Lessons for 3rd-5th grade are focusing on student's Digital Footprints. This includes Private vs Personal Information as well as the Online Tracks that students leave. Click here for the 3rd-5th grade Nearpod Lesson.

Picture
Students have been checking out a lot of books and are, for the most part, bringing their books back on time--we have a two week check out. One problem we have encountered is that students are damaging books with leaky water bottles. Please help your student by providing a water bottle that doesn't leak and showing your student how to place their water bottle in the water bottle pouch on the outside of their backpack--not inside their backpack. They also should not eat or drink while reading their library books! Thanks for your assistance!

Picture
Fulton County Schools is introducing Beanstack, an online reading challenge and tracking program to help build a culture of reading at school as well as at home. I have begun to present this program to 3rd-5th grade students as part of the Media Center Curriculum. Stay tuned for more information as the program is rolled out in the district! 

0 Comments

Media Center News for August

8/8/2021

0 Comments

 
PictureMrs. Thomas (right) is the METI and Mrs. Berkovich (left) is the Media Center Assistant. We are excited to see you in the Media Center! My contact information: thomass5@fultonschools.org and @dolvinmc on Twitter
Welcome back to school! We hope you had a wonderful summer! The Media Center will be back to normal with book checkouts this school year! We will start to checkout books after your class has been to the Media Center and checked out books. 1st-5th grade students will be able to come to the Media Center and checkout books before and during school after your teacher has been given Media Center passes. 

Picture
What is the amount of books that students are able to check out? Kindergarten students:1 book. 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students: 2 books. 4th and 5th grade students: 3 books. Remember that there is a 2 week checkout and if you damage or lose a book, you should pay the replacement cost. If a student has an overdue book, it needs to be brought back or replaced before another book can be checked out.

Picture
The Scholastic Book Fair is coming September 7th-17th! The Week of September 7th will be Book Fair Preview Week. This is when students come with their class to look at the Book Fair and fill out a wish list. The Book Fair will be open for purchases on Friday, September 10th during the Ice Cream Social and will stay open during school hours until noon on Friday, September 17th. Click here to see our Book Fair Homepage! Stay tuned for more information!

Picture
Digital Citizenship Lessons will be taught to all of our students  in the Media Center. Each grade will complete 3 lessons, see below for the curriculum from Common Sense Media.
Media Balance (K-2)
Digital Footprints (K-2)
Internet Safety (K-2)

​Digital Footprint - Private vs. Personal Information (3-5)
Cyberbullying - The Power Of Words (3-5)
What is Clickbait?  (3-5)
Picture
Fulton County Schools is introducing Beanstack, an online reading challenge and tracking program to help build a culture of reading at school as well as at home. I look forward to presenting this program to all of our students as part of the Media Center Curriculum. Stay tuned for more information as the program is rolled out in the district! 

0 Comments
<<Previous

    Sue Thomas

    Media & Educational Technology Instructor

    Archives

    May 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    August 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    January 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About Me
  • MC News
    • Resources for Teachers
  • Birthday Book Club