McKelvie Library News Blog

Please click HERE to watch a quick Flipgrid Short! Happy Friday, McKelvie! 5th Graders, what are you reading? Click HERE record a short Flipgrid video of what you are currently reading! After clicking the link, scroll to the middle of the page and enter the Flip Code below into the middle of the Flip Code box.  The Flip Code to enter is:  cote2502 You will need to log in with your school Google account. If prompted, please allow your camera and audio. Happy recording! _____________________________________________________________________ 6th Graders, what are you reading? Click  HERE  record a short Flipgrid video of what you are currently reading! After clicking the link, scroll to the middle of the page and enter the Flip Code below into the middle of the Flip Code box.  The Flip Code to enter is:  cote4271 You will need to log in with your school Google account. If prompted, please allow your camera and audio. Happy record...

Week 1 Remote Learning from the McKelvie Library Flipgrid Video   📚 Did you know that in addition to the McKelvie Library subscription databases found  HERE , we have many audiobooks, Lightbox Digital Multidimensional Interactive Books, and eBooks available through Destiny Discover!  Your child will need to log into his/her Destiny account using the link provided off of the library site titled " Destiny ." To "Log in using your Follett account," students will use their student ID number (99.....) and their regular school password. If they are using a Chromebook while accessing Destiny, they will be prompted, via a blue box, to "Sign in with Google." Once they have signed in, they can click on a title under one of the "ribbons" on the Destiny Discover homepage titled: Audiobooks Lightbox eBooks The audiobooks and eBooks can be opened or checked out. If they are chec...

Congratulations to Isabella N. in Mrs. Mail's room for having her "Search Slip" drawn from the many slips that were collected during the month of February. Click  HERE  to see our 6th "Search Slip" winner. Book spine poetry is a great way to use book titles to create poetry. Friday in the library, spine label poetry was introduced by Mrs. Topf using the books. Click  HERE  and  HERE  to see students actively engaged in creating poems using the titles of the books! This is a friendly reminder that if your child(ren) are participating in the Fisher Cats 2019-2020 Reading Challenge, forms need to be mailed to: NH Fisher Cats, Attn: Reading Challenge, 1 Line Drive, Manchester, NH 03101 The forms are due on or before Friday, March 13, 2020. If you child needs an additional form, please send him/her to the library on Monday or Tuesday of next week. These forms are not mailed from school. Enjoy the weekend, McKelvie! Don't forget to adjust your clocks! ~Mrs. Cote...

Happy break McKelvie! The McKelvie Library was a very busy place this week. There were eight classes that came this week to build their reading stacks for vacation, as well as prepare for a March Madness reading activity which will begin for many classes after break. Students were exposed to books in a restaurant-like setting complete with reservations! Students were "served" various genres or formats of books during the tastings. They used their menus at the end of our time together to make a book selection(s) in preparation for their March Madness Book Tournament and to make sure that they had titles to dive into over break. In addition to these classes, the library has been busy with students coming to relax and read, building with Keva Planks, using the cat's cradle strings, solving the many Rubik's Cubes we have, creating broken crayon art, creating with origami and putting together our latest community puzzle! Can you believe that Brendan Sullivan found a ...