 Mrs. Sue Thomas Dolvin Media Center email: thomass5@fultonschools.org twitter: @dolvinmc  Mrs. Berkovich and I had so much fun reading and dressing up as Ada Twist, Scientist and Rosie Revere, Engineer on Thankful for Reading Day! These books by Andrea Beaty, spotlight the STEM curriculum (focusing on science, technology, engineering and math). Ada Twist Scientist is a 2018-2019 Georgia Picture Book Award Nominee!  3rd-5th Grade Students played a Breakout Edu game in the Media Center. They used the online catalog, Destiny, to find books in the Media Center and solved clues that led to the combination of a lock. They learned about the Dewey Decimal System, call numbers, the different areas of the Media Center and how to work as a team! The Media Center Maker Space is ready! This month we will feature lessons using Ozobot, Sphero SPRK+ and K'NEX . Ozobot is a robot that teaches kids basic programming, as you simply train the robots to follow patterns on the surfaces that they roll over. Ozobot can identify lines, colors, and codes on both digital surfaces, such as an iPad, and physical surfaces, such as paper. Sphero SPRK+is designed to inspire curiosity, creativity, and invention through connected play and coding, which fosters a love of robotics, coding, and STEAM principles through play. K'NEX Education is the connection of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, & math) with a child's curiosity and creativity. Calling all 3rd-5th grade tech savvy Dolphins...Enter the Technology Competition! Our Dolvin competition will take place in the Media Center on Wednesday, December 12th at 8:00 am. School winners will advance to the 18th Annual Fulton County Schools Technology Competition, Saturday, January 26th at Centennial High School! We have two upcoming author visits in January! For K-2nd grade, we have local Johns Creek author, Sherry Ellis, coming to discuss her books. We will have order forms for autographed books out soon. For 3rd-5th grade, we have a 2018-2019 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominated author, Deron Hicks, coming to discuss his book, The Van Gogh Deception.  If your student has overdue library books, please have them be 100% Responsible and return or replace them!
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 Mrs. Sue Thomas Dolvin Media Center email: thomass5@fultonschools.org twitter: @dolvinmc We have been busy in the Media Center reading the 2018-2019 Georgia Picture Book Award Nominees. 3rd-5th graders chose a favorite book and then created a BookTalk about that book. They used the iPad app, Videolicious to record their BookTalks and uploaded them to Seesaw. We will also be watching a BookTalk every Thursday morning on the Dolvin NewsSplash. Click here for a Google Slideshow full of student BookTalks! They really enjoy reading these high-quality picture books!
This week 3rd-5th graders will begin a Breakout Edu game where they find clues which will help them find books in the library. They will answer clues that will enable them to unlock their team's lock. This is a great team-building game that also teaches them how to use the Online Catalog, Destiny, to find books in the library. Stay tuned for pictures to see if they were able to Breakout!  This week, K-2nd Graders will focus on the GA Picture Book Award Nominee book, Ada Twist, Scientist. We will use Wonderopolis and PebbleGo to find answers to things they wonder about.  Students were given overdue book notices last week. Please help your student be 100% Accountable and ask them if they have any overdue library books. We have a 2 week check-out policy and they can renew their book if it is not in high demand. Thankful for Reading Day will take place on Friday, November 16th. Our school will be celebrating books all day and will have guest readers. Students and staff are encouraged to dress up as their favorite book character!
 Mrs. Sue Thomas Dolvin Media Specialist thomass5@fultonschools.org Twitter: @Dolvinmc http://dolvinmedia.weebly.com/ 470-254-9282 Thanks to everyone for a very successful Scholastic Book Fair! We purchased books from the fair and will be placing a large order for new books, a MakerSpace cart, and bookmarks! Also a big thank you to all of our volunteers who help make special events like the book fair happen! There is a 2 week check out in the Media Center. One of the rules in the Media Center is to be 100% Accountable and return your books on time. I want to give a shout out to classes who had 100% book return and no overdue books! Ms. Jackson's Kindergarten Class, Ms. Anderson's and Ms. Keller's 1st Grade Classes, All 2nd Grade Classes, and Ms. Fletcher's 3rd Grade Class! Overdue lists were sent to classrooms today, please be on the lookout and help your student be 100% and bring their library books back!  Please participate in this Digital Citizenship Parent Workshop entitled Parenting Digital Natives. This workshop will help you understand who digital natives are, give you statistics and surveys, discuss parent guidelines and identify tips to use when raising a digital native. |
| Mrs. Sue Thomas Dolvin Media Specialist thomass5@fultonschools.org Twitter: @Dolvinmc http://dolvinmedia.weebly.com/ 470-254-9282 | |
 | The Scholastic Book Fair will be here September 4th-14th! We will have class previews Tuesday, September 4th-7th and will be open for buying during the K-2 Ice Cream Social on Friday, September 7th from 4:30-6:30 pm. We will have class buying times for the week of Monday, September 10th-14th. We will be open until 5pm on Thursday, September 13th and will will close at 11:30 am on Friday, September 14th. See our Scholastic Book Fair webpage for times and to shop our online book fair! |
September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month. We will have Miss Ellen here from the NE Spruill Oaks Public Library during our Scholastic Book Fair on Friday, September 7th, from 4:30-6:30 pm so you can get a library card if you don't have one!
Students have been learning how to use the Media Center and what is available on the Media Center Webpage during our Orientation Classes . I am pleased to say that classes in the Media Center have been dolvINcredible!
The Dolvin News Splash Morning News Program is off to a great start this year thanks to the members of the News Splash Team (a few are missing from this photo)!
| | Mrs. Sue Thomas Dolvin Media Specialist thomass5@fultonschools.org Twitter: @Dolvinmc http://dolvinmedia.weebly.com/ 470-254-9282 |
Welcome back to school! Mrs. Berkovich and I look forward to the new school year and love our new hashtag #DolvINcredible! We will be doing some incredible things in the Media Center with our new MakerSpace equipment that includes Dot and Dash, Ozobots, Spheros and Cubelets. We also received some Breakout EDU equipment to test your Media Center knowledge!
We received the 2018-2019 Georgia Picture Book and Children's Book Award Nominees and will be reading, booktalking and voting for our favorites!
The Scholastic Book Fair will be here very soon! The theme is: Enchanted Forest Book Fair: Let Your Imagination Grow. The dates are Friday, September 7th (during the K-2nd grade Ice Cream Social)-Friday, September 14th! Click here for our Book Fair Home Page for more information! Click here for the SignUpGenius to volunteer at the Book Fair! Click here to learn more about eWallet, a secure, cash-free way to shop the fair!
Our School-Wide Summer Reading Kick-Off will be held in the cafeteria on Tuesday, May 8th with Miss Laura from the Northeast Spruill Oaks Branch Library! Click here for the Summer Reading Brochure. The schedule is as follows: 4th & 5th Grade @8:05-8:25, K and 1st Grade @8:35-8:55 & 2nd & 3rd Grade @9:05-9:25. Click here for Summer Reading Resources from Fulton County Schools including ebooks and reading lists!
The Media Center and Dolvin Discovery Lab have had a blast learning about planting in the School-Wide Garden! Hopefully there will be lots of produce, herbs and flowers growing all summer long and into the fall!
It has been a great school year in the Media Center and it has gone very quickly! In order to inventory the books in the Media Center, all books checked out to students are due back to the Media Center by Monday, May 14th! Please help students be 100% Accountable by encouraging them to look for their overdue books and have students come see us about overdue or lost books! If you have any questions about overdue or lost books, you can be reach me at thomass5@fultonschools.org.
April is National Poetry Month! To keep with our gardening theme, 2nd grade has been creating poems about butterflies, 1st grade will be writing acrostic poems about the garden and Kindergarten will write 5 senses poems about the garden.
3rd, 4th and 5th grade are learning about the science of origami and are making butterflies, frogs and flowers to decorate our indoor garden! They are also decorating a mural to hang in the Media Center!
Planting has begun in the Classroom Garden, here are some pictures of Mrs. Keller's class weeding and planting in their bed with Mrs. McLean!
Hard to believe, but it's almost time for Summer Reading! The theme for summer reading is Libraries Rock. We will have a School-Wide Summer Reading Kick-Off on Tuesday, May 8th with Miss Laura from the Spruill Oaks Library!
It's also time to remember to bring back overdue library books!
We are celebrating Spring in the Media Center!
K & 1 are planting and learning about plants. They made bookmarks about what they want to plant in their garden! Here are some pictures of their plants sprouting in the Media Center.
K & 1 are planting and learning about plants. They made bookmarks about what they want to plant in their garden! Here are some pictures of their plants sprouting in the Media Center.
2nd Grade is learning about Butterflies and writing poems about the butterfly life cycle. They will release butterflies in the garden later in the Spring.
3rd Grade is reading "Tops & Bottoms" and writing about what they would like to grow in their garden.
4th Grade is reading "Miss Ruphius" and writing about how they will make the world more beautiful.
5th Grade is reading "Diana's White House Garden" and learning about Victory Gardens during WWII. They are also making origami butterflies and frogs to decorate the Media Center.
Have a fantastic Spring Break!
We celebrated Dr. Seuss's Birthday and Read Across America Day in the Media Center! It's so inspirational to see what students want to be when they grow up or where they want to go after reading Oh, The Places You'll Go!
March is Women's History Month and students have been using iPads to access a quiz provided by PebbleGo to see what famous woman from history they share interests with. Click here to access the quiz. We have been creating Biography Pyramids in 1st and 2nd grade and creating ChatterPix in 3rd and 4th grade. Click here for an example of a ChatterPix!
We are very excited about partnering with the Dolvin Discovery Lab to help K and 1st grade students learn about plants and planting! Right now classes are planting in the Discovery Lab and the plants are being stored in the Media Center windows where they can get plenty of light until we are ready to transplant them outdoors in the Children's Garden after Spring Break.
The new Georgia Picture Book and Children's Book Award Nominees are out! Click here for the lists!
Please help your students be 100% Accountable and return their library books!
Students have been reading, doing book talks and voting for their favorite 2017-2018 Georgia Picture Book and Children's Book Award Nominees.
So far the winners for our school are: I Don't Want to be a Frog, by Dev Petty, illustrated by Mike Boldt and What Elephants Know by Eric Dinerstein.
Please click on the link to see a complete list of the books and stay tuned for the state winners!
One of our rules in the Media Center is to be 100% Accountable and "Return library books on time and in good condition!" Our library checkout period is for 2 weeks. We send overdue notices home approximately once a month and give overdue notices to teachers each time students come to the Media Center. Please help your students be 100% Accountable. Thank you!
Upcoming Events:
Friday, March 2nd is Dr. Seuss's Birthday and Read Across America Day!
Saturday, March 10th we will have 2 teams participating in the State Technology Competition! Good Luck teams!
Friday, March 2nd is Dr. Seuss's Birthday and Read Across America Day!
Saturday, March 10th we will have 2 teams participating in the State Technology Competition! Good Luck teams!
Sue Thomas
Media & Educational Technology Instructor
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