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Joyce Valley, Library Media Specialist

Class Pages: PreK K 1 2 3 4 5 Sci. Lang. Arts Math.

Author's Night
February 10, 2010

Mark Breen, visited our school. He is the senior meteorologist at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, and for over 25 years he has been heard on Vermont Public Radio's an "Eye on the Sky" each weekday morning. Along with weather forecasting, his work at the Museum involves teaching weather and science, as well as serving as the Planetarium Director in Vermont's only public planetarium. He is the author of the popular kid’s book, "The Kid's Book of Weather Forecasting".

He described how he came to write a book, the process and publishing of his book. With experiments, observations and activities children learned to predict the weather by understanding the science behind it. Many of the weather instruments in the book he explained and created for everyone. All joined in singing the Weatherman song.

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Safe Surfing with your Family
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"Safe surfing" is a family affair. Please consider the following safe surfing guidelines: Parenting for the virtual world is very similar to parenting in the real world. Your kids don't go anywhere unsupervised before you're sure they know the rules and how to handle themselves. They don't talk to strangers if you're not around.

Before Your Child Goes Online:

Teach yourself about the Web. Check with public libraries and community centers for information sessions. Yahoo! has a introductory tutorial called Yahoo! How-To.
Place your family computer in the most public area of your home where it's easiest for you to monitor their computer use and activities.
Familiarize yourself with parental control software, and check out the control features of your online service or ISP. Nothing is foolproof, but adding these programs to regular supervision may give you additional peace of mind.
Get to know the communication tools your child uses. much of a child's time online is spent communicating and interacting with others. (www.yahooligans.com/parents/communicate.html)

Create a "Family Pledge for Online Safety" that states what your children are and are not allowed to do online. (www.yahooligans.com/parents/createfamilypledge.html)

Important Rules for Caring for Library Books

1. Clean your hands before reading your book.

2. Never write, scribble, glue, or cut the pages of a book.

3. Save your place with a bookmark, not by folding a page.

4. Turn pages carefully using the top corner of the page.

5. Carry your book in a book bag to keep it safe.

6. Put your book in a safe place at home, away from babies and pets.

7. Return your books on time.

Call Numbers, Fiction and Non-Fiction

Books in the library are put on the shelf in a special order. Each book has a number. This number is called a call number. It is found on the spine of the book. A call number is a group of numbers and/or letters that tell you where to find a book.

Remember: A call number is not made up of just numbers. Some call numbers are made up of letters or both numbers and letters.

Library books are sorted by fiction and non-fiction books.

Fiction books are stories that are made up by the author and are not true.
Non-fiction books are true and give you information about all kinds of things.

If you have not enrolled your Advantage Card from Price Chopper in the Tools for Schools program, please do, it helps us to get free books, sports & computer equipment, and possibly a new computer if enough participate.We raised 8508 points this year to purchase six new books for the library.

Our school code is 15419.
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