Library Media Center
Don't forget that your students can take AR tests from home! Students should know their log in information. Log In here - (this is an upgraded site, so if you use the old one you will be redirected here. )
This is the site specific to our school. You will not get to this site simply by googling "Accelerated Reader".
Login troubleshooting -
- Be sure you are on our site (above),
- Be sure you have chosen Accelerated Reader and not STAR reading
- Double check log in
Stay At Home Resources
- There are many online resources available for students to read or be read to. Please take note of the following available for free with internet connection.
- Epic Books free subscription during this time - https://www.getepic.com/
- Tumble Books online - https://ideaexchange.org/life/idea/free-access-all-tumblebooks
- Big Timber Media - https://www.bigtimbermedia.com/distance-learning-bundles/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=subscribers&utm_campaign=free-bundles
- Junior Library Guild Ebooks - https://jlg.ipublishcentral.com/bookshelf
- Storyline Online where celebrities read aloud - https://www.storylineonline.net/
- Big List of Author Read Alouds - https://www.weareteachers.com/virtual-author-activities/
- FaceBook and Instagram offer many options for daily read alouds or interaction with Authors and Celebrities
- Examples - Follow Pete the Cat on Instagram and every day at 12:00 Author James Dean reads and draws
- Also on Instagram -Author Mo Willems (Pigeon books) does a drawing each day at 1:00
- Facebook Read Alouds - Dan Gutman, Peter Reynolds etc - https://www.facebook.com/ReadAloud.org/
Kentucky Virtual Library offers many resources for students in our district including Research, Tumblebooks link and many others . 3rd and 4th graders at MES have used KYVL for research in the library.
You can connect to KYVL at : http://kyvl.org/elementary
Kentucky Educational Television is also a good source during this time - https://www.ket.org/
Browse our Library Resources from home
This year our school has purchased the option for our Catalog to be online. You can access it with the following link. Then students can fill out the Google Form to request a book. We will honor their requests on a first come first serve basis.
We are working on curbside service for our Virtual Students and hope to have that up and going soon.