If you haven't heard, we are doing a district wide reading promotion called, Read Like a Rock Star. All students and staff in our district are invited to participate. This month staff who enter will be put in a drawing for a Kwik Trip card. How do you enter the drawing? Simply read 15 hours or more this month, then head on over to theRead Like a Rock Star website to log your hours. This month students will be entered into a drawing for a Culver's gift card, and in October students will be entered into a drawing for a Funset Boulevard Fun Pack for 4.

Make Some Noise Menasha!

Here's a new program to our district and it goes a little like this.....

What: Read Like a Rock Star

Who: The entire district including students and staff

When: All school year

How it works:

Each student and staff member will receive a VIP Pass from their school library.
Read 15 hours or more a month
Go to the website at the end of the each month to record your reading hours (staff has a special section on website)
Receive a stamp on your VIP pass from the school library
You can also do one of the monthly activities to earn a stamp
Fill up your VIP pass and get invited to a special rock concert at the end of the school year.
There will be monthly prize drawings for both students and staff. Things such as t-shirts, a tablet, Funset passes, Kwik Trip cards, etc.
The website: http://goo.gl/xBqEl7 (or you can find it under Parent/Student links on the Menasha Joint School District Website)

C'MON, EVERYBODY... GET ON YOUR FEET

Help Spread the Word:

Hand out this sheet to students to take home (it's two sided):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13VAveIqYG4vs9b0pWqCqIx11OWD3pS6tSdxcXvWFNWA/edit?usp=sharing

Show the video: https://goanimate.com/videos/0PsvFtiEgqDM?utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=usercontent

Share the website:

http://goo.gl/xBqEl7

Missed out on the shirt?

We have another shirt available for purchase!

Read Like a Rock Star. Campaign ends Wednesday, September 30. Help us meet our fundraising goal of 50 shirts!

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Teachers Find Many Reasons to Use Picture Books with Middle and High School Students

At a time when the conversation about literature has been focusing on students reading increasingly complex texts, Amy Krouse Rosenthal's picture book called Duck! Rabbit! (Chronicle, 2009) might seem a bit out of place in a high school English class.

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Dinosaurs are Here

Pebble Go has added Dinosaurs

Pebble go has added Dinosaurs to its database. Students do not need a password to use Pebble Go or Pebble Go Next. They simply go to parents/students links, click on the library, and then click on the Pebble Go links.

Read eBooks & Magazines

Overdrive - Read or Listen to books. Students use student id number and employees can get their library card number from library paraprofessionals.

Flipster - Read popular magazines.

High School Level Magazines: Username: menasha Password: blue jay

Middle School Level Magazines: Username: mwoodmiddle Password: ebsco

Elementary Level Magazines: Username: clovisgrove Password: ebsco

Match Readers with Books They Love

Novelist Plus

We now have a paid subscription to Novelist Plus. Novelist Plus not only showcases the hottest books, it also offers author and title read-alikes. Novelist plus includes fiction and non-fiction books, book lists, and other resources like Reader's Advisory. It is for ages 0-Adult.

To access it go to: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=custuid&custid=s6242848&profile=novplus

Username: menasha

Password: bluejay