 EARTH DAY-5th & 6th Graders earn rice to feed hungry people in the world by earning 10 grains of rice for every correct answer when gaming at FreeRice.com! Join the library students this week-play educational games at FreeRice.com to earn rice for world hunger programs. |
 EARTH DAY-FreeRice.com |
 EARTH DAY-FreeRice.com |
 EARTH DAY-FreeRice.com |
Sandra Olschlager - Library Media Specialist |
 Mr. Bertsch's Jr High Students Digitally Reading a Tumble Novel. FEATURED: A complete ONLINE LIBRARY for AGES 0-99! Click on the links TumbleBooks, TumbleReadables, TumbleTalkingBooks, Teen-Young Adult, and the Community Library with AUDIO. Thousands of titles to choose from 24/7! Books can be saved in "My Favorites" and bookmarked for your return. Enjoy your journey into Digital Reading! |
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK-APRIL 12-18
DID YOU KNOW? The North Dakota State Library facilitates 34,000 interlibrary loans annually, offers numerous trainings free of charge, and awards $800,000 grants each year to public/school libraries across the state. North Dakota has 93 public libraries with over 220 full-time staff who answer approximately 400,000 questions per year. Attendance at public libraries totals over 2 million per year. North Dakota has 380 school libraries with 294 school librarians teaching students in North Dakota K-12 school NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK-APRIL 12-18 libraries. To Celebrate National Library Week - Fessenden-Bowdon K-1 students will learn about the author Robert Munsch and read his stories online. Watch for up-and-coming Library Podcasts from the 2-4 graders about the importance of libraries while 5th/6th graders tell about humor they found in library books in honor of National Humor Month (April). (To hear the podcasts-Click Library Podcast link on the left.) |
 FEBRUARY 2009 READING MONTH AT THE F-B SCHOOL!
Feb 2nd-Kickoff Day: Wear pajamas and Flashlight Read with a partner! |
 Students focused their reading on bears, presidents, and ice cream during ND Reading Month. February Reading Month kicked off with ‘Flashlight Reading with a Buddy’ and ended with ice cream floats. A special event for the reading month was Tom Gibson’s conservation presentations-Sam Ting and Common Sense. |
 Sixth Graders Blog a news story "Bears' House Vandalized!"
Check out the Library Blog to Read All About It! |
 Top news writers podcast their eyewitness account of "Bear's House Vandalized"! Check out the podcast on the Media Center Homepage- Library Podcast. Way Cool! |
 Kindergarteners love to read about Franklin the Turtle! |
 First & Second Graders vote for Arthur as their favorite character! |
 Preschool Teacher, Erica Jones, the Assistant, Melissa Neumiller, and the morning/afternoon Preschoolers learn about the library resources. Mrs. O, Library Media Specialist, demonstrated to the classes how to use the laptop and Promethean ActivBoard to access the Fessenden-Bowdon School website. Students then click “Media Center”, then ”Explore & Learn” - from their they can choose interactive learning websites. For example: Sesame Street, Little Amadeus Music, Clifford the Big Red Dog. Students interact with the websites through the ActivBoard’s pen.
Preschoolers also learned about accessing the children’s online digital library called “Tumble Books” which is found on the library homepage at the top. Click link called “Tumble Books”-then click the red oval entitled ’storybooks’. Stories are listed by their title alphabetically. Stories offer quizzes, puzzles, and games to further language arts learning. Preschoolers then learned about the www.starfall.com website that teaches the alphabet and their sounds using interactive games. Preschoolers love coming to the digital library twice a month. They are getting ”tech” smart! |
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