Hi everyone! I've been working hard supporting your teachers and friends in this Connected Learning place. But I finally had a chance to record a story for you to watch/listen to. It is an old favorite around NBCS. We do love Bear and his caring friends!! Their acts of kindness show us how to treat one another, even if Bear sometimes makes silly choices!
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This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day!!! So I wanted to share some cool resources and activities with you.
NASA has amazing Earth Day posters that they have created! You can view them or even print them from here. Check out other great NASA resources in their Earth Day 2020: 50th Anniversary Toolkit as well! How about some gardening activities for Earth Day? KidsGardening.org has some super fun activities for all ages! Click here to explore and find some fun to have outside on these warm spring afternoons. For those of you that like to noodle around with programming, Google has created a tutorial that allows you to create your own Earth Day themed Google Doodle! I had a lot of fun making my own, and I hope you do too! You can find everything you need by clicking the Google doodle below - no login necessary! Hey Bobcats and families!
I hope this post is finding you safe and healthy. I have been working hard from home and I know you have been too! This Connected Learning from home is tricky! But I have confidence in all of you! And I miss you! I miss seeing all of you and sharing books and computers and other library stuff. So I thought I would remind/tell you about of a couple places you can go to find books to read from home! Those of you in 3rd grade and up might remember that we have e-books through MackinVIA. You can find the link to get there on our library catalog - The Magic Book on the Library Learning Commons page of our school website. (I have also put it below) We own around 400 books, but Mackin is letting us borrow the whole elementary school library for free! So now we have more than 5,000 books!!! I am sure some of this could keep you busy! There are non-fiction and fiction from Pre-K through 6th grade. Some of the books read-aloud to you (search for interactive) and some you can read yourself. We also have access through a few more great publishers to a ton more e-books! MackinVIA - School: New Boston Central School Username: nbcs Password: bobcat Capstone Publishing - Username: continue Password: reading Abdo Publishing - Username: ABDO Elementary , Password: 2020 Crabtree Publishing - Username: read Password: free Junior Library Guild - no username or password needed if accessing with a computer So enjoy books to your heart's content! According to Factcite - one of our great database resources... Today in History: 1917: Jeanette Rankin attended her first session of Congress, becoming the first woman representative. Carrie Chapman Catt and other suffragists accompanied Rankin, who represented Montana, to the Capitol for her first legislative session. Women in Montana had won the right to vote in state elections in 1916, four years before national suffrage for women was achieved in 1920. Go read some more about this amazing woman on Factcite! "Rankin, Jeannette." U.S. and World Biography Online. Lincoln Library Press, 2012. FactCite, www.factcite.com/useh/3015894.html.
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