Get Ready for Summer Reading

Hey, Dolphins! We have some great suggestions for you to keep reading this summer!  Our LMC Directors have put together a primary and intermediate list of great, fun summer reads!  Watch the slideshow, click to see the whole list at once, or print out a bookmark with the titles.
Titles with an * have a digital copy at AHML.
You can share what you're reading all summer long on the LMC Flipgrid.

Grades K-2

Grades 3-5

The Lists

K-2 Reading List
Grades 3-5 Reading List
​You can also find the middle school summer reading list here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VDamxUwu6bQ1fCvSawmjkPYDljpz2KS7/view?usp=sharing​
Parents: Want to order books? Consider ordering from The Book Stall in Winnetka.  They provide discounted books and staff to help us when we have an author visit, like Laurie Wallmark, Saadia Faruqi and Sarah Aronson.  They also helped bring us Megan McDonald, author of the Judy Moody books, in 2018 at no cost to Dryden.
Sign up for the AHML summer reading program.  You can watch Miss Emily's video explaining how it works. (TL/DR register, log your minutes, collect badges and prizes).

Register at ahml.beanstack.org

Come over to Flipgrid 
and tell me what you are reading today! 

Bookmarks
Learn more about Asian countries, cultures and the Asian Pacific American experience this month. 
​See the activities page for books to read and activities to try.
Read one of my Star Wars book picks on Hoopla at your public library
​(you'll need your library card) and
go over to the Activities page for more Star Wars fun. 
Share what activities you do on our Padlet.
May the Fourth by with you on Star Wars Day, May 4th!

Not a Star Wars fan? Check out our other LMC Directors' picks for you.
No AHML or MPPL library card? You can get one online!  See their website for details.

Listen to author Robert Munsch tell the story of Elizabeth in The Paper Bag Princess, my pick for K-1, good for everyone. It's one of my all time favorites.  What a treat to hear the author tell it.

Check out our LMC Directors' Book Picks for this week.
Click on the librarian to hear a book talk.  Click on the book to go to Tumblebooks.
You shouldn't need a password but just in case,
​use log in tumble735       Password: books

BOOK RESOURCES

See the Great Websites page for more ways to read great books.
Capstone Interactive has fiction and nonfiction, tons of graphic novels, all with interactive features!  It also has the ability to search by grade level and use a visual search.  To access, click on the Capstone Interactive box.  Login is continue.  Password is reading
Tumblebooks has eBooks for K-6 readers including ebooks, read alongs, graphic novels, nonfiction and books in Spanish and French.

​ABDO has opened their entire catalog for elementary, middle and high school readers. 

​They have GREAT nonfiction resources and lots of fiction, too.  I spy some origami books here!

Check out these authors and illustrators offering live events. 

Here are some places to find good books to read and other fun stuff.  You can also use the Research Resources and your grade level pages.  If you need help, or resources for your PL or anything at all, email me at bkovacic@sd25.org.  

Reading

 You can access the Dryden LMC catalog, including eBooks.  Log in with your Google credentials to Destiny Discover.  
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​The Junior Library Guild (a bookseller) has opened their online catalog. No log in needed, just click on the book to read.

​Elementary books           Middle School books 
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Your public library has lots of resources, even though they are closed.  

Arlington Heights Memorial Library has:
  • CloudLibrary - eBooks and audiobooks
  • Hoopla - eBooks, eComics, eAudiobooks, movies and TV episodes 
  • Kanopy and Kanopy Kids have educational shows including PBS programs (lots are new to me, check it out)
  • PressReader has many magazines including kids magazines and international issues.
​        Visit www.ahml.info. If you don't have a 
         library card, you can get one now online.

You can find all these resources under the Borrow Menu --> eBooks

Mt Prospect Public Library has:
  • Overdrive ebooks
  • Hoopla
  • RBDigital
        Visit ​www.mppl.org.  If you need a library 
        card, you can get one online.

Storytime Online - Actors reading picture books
Story Time From Space - Astronauts read from space

STEAM

What can you make with a toilet paper roll? 

Get a planning sheet here.

Writing

Try these storytelling cubes from PBS Kids.  Roll the dice to get your storytelling elements, then write a story! https://www.pbs.org/parents/crafts-and-experiments/play-a-storytelling-game
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Write along with Kate DiCamillo, author of many books including:
Mercy Watson
Flora and Ulysses (my favorite)
Raymie Nightingale
and, available in the Dryden eLibrary:
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Because of Winn Dixie 
Tale of Desperaux
and many others.
You might want to use a picture to get you started.  Try one at Images to Inspire.

Illustrators

Draw Everyday with JJK - Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of Lunch Lady graphic novels

Lunch with Mo Willems - draw with Mo 11 CST

Author Sarah Aronson is coming to Dryden!
at some point in the future! TBD


Sarah Aronson will visit our 3rd, 4th and 5th graders to talk about the writing process and her latest book, Just Like Rube Goldberg.
Flipgrid

Author Saadia Faruqi is coming to Dryden!
February 25, 2020

Picture
Learn more about where Saadia is from and where she lives now in our Google Tour.
​tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/tour/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgIDg4OamiQgM
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Flipgrid

Sign up at AHML

Thank you, Mrs Wasik, for sharing some of your favorite books
in our new Teacher Feature display.  Check one out next
time you are in the LMC.  

Need more recommendations? Watch the morning
​announcements for our Book Talk Tuesday.
See Mrs. Foster or Mrs. Kovacic if you would like to do a book talk.
DRYDEN STUDENTS:
To search the LMC's collection, make lists, check on your account, or put books on hold, click the button below!
​Here is a document to help you remember how to log in and ​directions on how to get the ​Destiny app​ for your own device.
LMC Lunch
LIBRARY NEWS
Megan McDonald, author of the Judy Moody and Stink series,
came to Dryden October 12, 2018!
Thank you to The Book Stall for coordinating this for us, and to Julie Jergens at AHML.  You can still get signed copies of Megan McDonald's books at The Book Stall.
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The Dryden LMC Teachers
                  
Mrs. Beth Kovacic
LMC Director
bkovacic@sd25.org


 Mrs. Mary O'Hara
  LMC Teaching Assistant
mohara@sd25.org
https://judymoody.com/
http://www.meganmcdonald.net/
https://www.thebookstall.com/

You can draw Judy Moody or make a comic book about Stink.
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