Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to UID and UCS

The Scholastic Book Fair is Coming!

UID
At School Book Fair Dates:  Tuesday 9/30- Thursday 10/2
Open Tuesday 7:45-3:30, Wednesday 5:45-6:45 during Open House, Thursday 7:45-2:45
Evening Book Fair Event on Open House night: Wednesday, October 1st 5:45-6:45

Online Book Fair Dates:  Sunday 9/21- Monday 10/6

UCS
At School Book Fair Dates:  Monday 9/29- Friday 10/3
Open Monday 7:45-3:30, Wednesday 7:45-3:30, Thursday evening 5:45-6:30, and Friday 7:45-2:30
Evening Book Fair Event on Open House night: Thursday, October 2nd 5:45-6:30

Online Book Fair Dates:  Friday 9/26- Monday 10/6

The online book fair has a larger selection of books than what will be at the school fair. Books purchased at the online fair will ship for free to the school 24-48 hours after the online fair ends on October 6th.

Our goal is to raise money to boost our library’s nonfiction collection with updated materials.  Please help us reach this goal through reading.  Every book purchased at the school book fair and the online book fair increases our profit towards our goal. 
This is a great opportunity to purchase books for your child while helping our school reach its goals. 
For more information on the school book fair, online book fair, dates, and times, please visit the school library web page and click on the book fair image to go to the Scholastic Book Fair web page.
         
Books purchased from proceeds of the spring Scholastic Book Fair

Contact Mr. Baron at:

UCS Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
UID on Tuesday and Thursday.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Student friendly search engines

I love Google.  Most people love Google.  Kids do too.  However, I discourage it's use with students at school because of the likelihood that students will get search results that contain inappropriate content, ads, and sites that do not contain reliable/accurate information.  In addition, most of the time students are faced with search results for sites where the reading level is too high.  I encourage students to use our school's library web page for resources that will yield search results with appropriate, reliable content at their reading level.  Here is the link for our library web page:

UID
UCS

Here are a couple of search engines I encourage students to use over Google that are linked on our library web page.