Family Newsletter

Dear Families,
Thank you for coming to our parent teacher conferences last week.  It was great to sit down and share your child's progress at school.  I am so proud of all of these children's hard work.  I hope you are too! Since we discussed most aspects of learning, I will be very brief this week and only share some of the new online reading opportunities we have for you children.

First of all, Allen Brook's library resource page has extensive reading opportunities.  To get to it, you will need to access the new school web-site, which is www.cvsdvt.org

Click on PreK-8 Schools and choose Williston

On the top bar, you will choose Services and choose Library Resources, Allen Brook Library Resources.  I also linked it here directly.

If you choose Library Catalog and type in ebooks in the search bar, you will have access to multiple books that your child can read online.  The books can be read aloud and the text is highlighted as the computer reads them to your child.  Some books even have embedded videos and slideshows inside them with quizzes and activities at the end.  Of course, your child can also get the books to match the online version in our library too.  Please encourage your child to do that next time we have library book choosing tim (Wednesdays).

The second choice on the Allen Brook Library Resource page is pebblego.  Pebblego is an amazing site, which offers non-fiction books on a variety of topics.  You will need a username and a password to get in and I will email that to you.  This site also allows the children to read themeslves, or have the computer read the books aloud with the text highlighted.

The third choice is KidsInfoBits and I will share information about this site at another time.

Lastly, I have linked multiple web-sites on my own wiki for students to read online.  Here is the direct link again.

Online reading is great, but it should not replace traditional books, poetry and magazines for homework.

Have fun reading!