Congratulations to Enrique Gomez and Kaylee Riffer, who joined the ILC Reader Hall of Fame for reading all twenty books on the Abraham Lincoln Book Award list for 2017. This is Enrique's second year in a row of accomplishing this challenge. Each earned a $10 Amazon gift card. They also were invited to a pizza party along with the several other students who read at least four books from the list to qualify to vote for their favorite. Any student who read at least four books was entered into a raffle for a Kindle Fire. Our two winners were Ailyn Daruwala and Kaylee Riffer.
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Take a moment to think back to your childhood. What is your earliest memory of reading or being read to by someone? That moment in time was when you started to develop language skills that would serve as the foundation for your learning? Early literacy is so important for developing those critical early reading skills. In support of early literacy community efforts, Donna Corcoran, Barb Mason, Nicki Sutherland, Marcia Zboril, and I have collaborated with the Lake County Health Department’s Reach Out and Read program. Since 2008, we have conducted book drives and have donated 12,173 new or gently used books for Lake County children ages 6 months to 5 years old! Impressive work. And we’re not done yet! Donna Corcoran and I recently attended the Midwest Educational Technology Committee conference in St. Charles, Missouri, and wanted to share some takeaways. Feel free to follow-up with us if you have questions or ideas. Also, visit this Google folder, where we copied some of the presentations from the sessions we attended. You can view most of the presentations for all of the sessions on the METC website.
Barb and I are excited to share with you our trial for a product that makes locating credible sources for research projects easier for students. We appreciate any feedback you have. The product, EBSCO Discovery Service, allows students to search for sources from our building catalogs and most of our databases using a single search bar. Check it out (see below for login information).
Be skeptical consumers of information. That’s the message we need to get across to our students, especially in light of fake news reports across the web and social media, as well as from the mouths of our politicians. Even high-profile media outlets such as Facebook and the Washington Post recently have been accused of bamboozling the public with untruths. Who can we trust these days? Ourselves.
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Sign up for free to write at nanowrimo.org. The website helps you set daily writing goals and awards you digital badges as you make progress on your novel. The ILC also celebrated writing during a Do Something Cool program on Friday, November 4, led by the Writing Club. Writing Club student leaders Faith Clay and Grace Null introduced students to Wattpad, a website for writers and readers alike. Who better to trust for a good book recommendation than school librarians? Here are a few must-read titles suggested to Barb and me by our counterparts at our high school librarians quarterly meeting last week. (As an aside, Barb hosted and showed off the ACHS Makerspace. She did a great job!)
Teen Read Week culminated on Friday, October 14, with the conclusion of the ILC's fall reading challenge, Eagles Read: Pageapalooza, as well as a Drop Everything and Read and a spray paint t-shirt Do Something Cool. Pageapalooza was a six-week team or individual reading challenge that began in early September. The nearly 100 students and staff members who registered read as many pages as possible for fun for a chance to win a Kindle Fire. Team Sofishticated, consisting of freshmen Ashley Alm, Isabella Frank, Alexandra Lynch, and Nick Slobodian, came in first place, reading a total of 43,734 pages. Each received a Kindle Fire. Q&A with Nick Aguina
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