Back to School!

The primary library officially opened this week and so far things are going smoothly. Thank you for your patience as we continue to get things ready for the school year. Hundreds of boxes of books have arrived and we are working our way through them to get them on the shelves and in the classrooms. Our priority is getting books in your class libraries and then the new books for the library. Here are some links to beginning of the year info. 

Library Procedures

UWCSEA eResources: Online Databases

 To get logins / passwords:

send a blank email to
database_passwords@gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg
and all the logins/passwords will be automatically sent back to you.  
(NB: Only works for people with an @gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg email address.)

Click below to find out how to:

Check your library account

Search Destiny- the Library Catalog

Search Using Destiny Quest

Summer Reading Lists and Online Reading Activities

These lists are compiled by teachers and experts in children's literature. They are to be taken as guides to interesting titles, not as a school endorsed 'must read' list.

Every child has different abilities and interests so please use these lists as starting points in helping your child find a book within which he or she can escape!

The Bookbag UK

The Guardian UK

The American Library Association 2012 Notable Children's Books

The Horn Book- US

The Children's Book Council of Australia

Reading Rockets- US

Red Dot 2012-13 Long List

Below are links to some online reading activities.

If you have an email address you can sign up to play free reading games.

Create a Wimpy Kid style avatar, play the Cheese Touch game, find out more about the author.

Actors reading children’s books

The New York City public library resources- links, booklists, activies, holidays

Write to your favorite fantasy characters and wonderfully, those characters write back!

A children’s digital library

Dr. Seuss games and activities

Games, info, activities, videos

Ranger Rick and Your Big Backyard magazines

BBC news for kids

Time magazine for kids

100s of poems to read and rate.

Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks

Sunglasses Image Credit: http://www.jpsblog.org

Focus on Nonfiction

With so many grades focusing on nonfiction, I thought it was a good time to remind you of some great places to go on the Internet for information.

Check out these sites that we subscribed to for ebooks, downloadables, or printables of nonfiction titles.

                   

Click here for links and login/password info. 

(This will only work from an @gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg email address)

Links are also on the Destiny homepage.

Scroll down on our Destiny homepage to find many links. You'll find some great websites under Research Tools- Where to Begin:
Here are some of my favorites:

Bio4Kids

FactBites

KidsHealth

On this Day- NY Times

Yuckiest Site

Here are links for magazines and news sites for kids.