The Dolvin Technology Competition is Coming up on Wednesday, November 9th from 12-2 in the Media Center! Forms are due to Ms. Thomas on Monday, November 7th! We can't wait to see the innovative projects our 3rd-5th grade students have come up with!Makerspace in the Media Center is Fun! We are creating robots with Cubelets and will also be using K'Nex to create whimsical book characters!Our Stick Together Puzzle turned out so great--We had a lot of guesses, stay tuned for more!Our Beanstack Challenge Winner for the month of October is Mr. Distasio's Class with a total of 6,670 minutes, Congratulations and keep reading! Please see the information below about Beanstack!We are excited for the Thanksgiving Holiday! Here is our November Choice Board!
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We are using Beanstack to create a culture of reading at Dolvin!
The Dolvin Technology Competition will be held on Wednesday, November 9th in the Media Center from 12-2. Click here for more information and you can check out the Embedded Padlet below!
We are having a blast with Makerspace in the Media Center! We are creating Tangrams this Month and also had fun with Keva Planks!
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We are almost done with our Digital Citizenship Lessons! We learned how to be good Digital Citizens by featuring the lessons below from Common Sense Media.
Mrs. Thomas--Media and Educational Technology Instructor
email: [email protected] Twitter: @dolvinmc Phone: 470-254-9282
Thank you to everyone who volunteered and supported the Scholastic Book Fair! You can still shop for books through our Scholastic Book Fair Homepage and use your eWallet balance!
1st-5th Grade Students have been learning about Digital Citizenship in the Media Center! Kindergarten Students will start their Digital Citizenship Lessons after the Scholastic Book Fair. Here are the topics that we are learning about from Common Sense Media.
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month--Make sure to get a Public Library Card--It's such an important resource!
Welcome back to a new school year--hope you had a wonderful summer and read a lot of books! We will be starting out Media Center Lessons with Digital Citizenship for 2nd-5th grades! Kindergarten and 1st grade will start out with lessons on how to take care of library books.
Guidelines for book checkout:
Kindergarten students: 1 book 1st, 2nd & 3rd grade students: 2 books 4th & 5th grade students: 3 books Students need to return overdue books before additional books can be checked out, the checkout period is for two weeks. If a book is damaged or lost, it is expected that the book will be paid for or the book will be replaced with a new hardback book.
Get ready for our Scholastic Book Fair! Our Book Fair Preview will be the week of September 7th-9th and our family event will take place the evening of September 9th during the K-2nd grade Ice Cream Social from 4:30-6:30 PM!! Books will be sold during school hours September 12th-15th and closing at noon on the 16th! FYI, Scholastic has made a change in their tax policy and, unfortunately will be charging taxes on books sold this year. The theme for the Book Fair is “Bolder, Prouder, Stronger Readers.” Here are a couple of videos to get excited about the Book Fair! And here is our Scholastic Book Fair Homepage for online shopping starting September 7th-20th!
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!
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.
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!
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Sue ThomasMedia & Educational Technology Instructor
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