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Our May Choice Board is all about May Celebrations and check out our Summer Reading Resources for Dolvin Students!
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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!
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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!
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!
Explore the March Choice Board where you will Learn About Dr. Seuss, St. Patrick's Day, Women's History Month and other March Celebrations!
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!
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!
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.
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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!
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!
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
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!
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
Enjoy the December Choice Board!
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!
Enjoy our November Choice Board!
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!
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!
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.
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 
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!
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.  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.  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! 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!
 Mrs. 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.  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.  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! 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) 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!
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Sue ThomasMedia & Educational Technology Instructor
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