March 2022 * Student Edition
LITERACY
New Reading Apps
Comics Plus
Students now have access to online graphic novels. This subscription will allow Hot Wells to have access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga—including popular series for readers of all interests, like Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Big Nate, Bone, Disney Princesses, Geronimo Stilton, Stranger Things, Locke & Key, American Gods, and timely, award-winning nonfiction likeThey Called Us Enemy. Find it on SAISD Classlink --> Library Books --> Comics Plus --> Comics Plus.
Learning Ally
This app provides access to Learning Ally’s library of human-read audiobooks, offering an extensive selection of books students want and need to read, including bestsellers, classic literature and textbooks. Now students have interactive learning tools geared to help them succeed, including: highlighted text synced with the audio narration, speed control, bookmarking, highlighting, and note-taking.
Spanish Collection Thanks to Donors Choose and the SAISD foundation our Spanish book collection is a little fuller. Some of the authentic Spanish books were not available at the time of purchase, but students can now delve into the fantasy fiction of authors like Rick Riordan, J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis.
General Collection
Federal funding allotted in December will help increase the library collections. The Hot Wells library will be receiving $2,200.00 in books in the coming months. Thanks to our donors, our library collection has grown from its original 2,304 books in August to 2,857 books in March. Our circulation is also steadily increasing as students are finding books they want to read on the shelves. You are invited to check out our books through our Destiny Discover Online Catalog.
90 SECOND NEWBERY FILM FESTIVAL
Thanks to the efforts of Ms. Culver and her class, our school has been invited to attend the the 90 second Newbery Film Festival. It will be held at the Tobin Center's River Walk Plaza. A preview o their film can be found here.
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Book Suggestion/Sugerencia de libros
Top Library Patrons in February
Vanessa B. 8th
Crystal C. 8th
Star G. 8th
Angela H. 6th
Jesse U. 6th
Joaquin B. 6th
Celebrations
UPCOMING EVENTS Newbery Film Festival at Tobin's Center Riverwalk Plaza (April 2nd)
First Lego League Qualifier (March 19, 2022) National Library Week (April 3 - 9)
National Poetry Month (April)
Academic Night (April 6th)
Book Royale (April)
Battle of the Books (April)
MAKER SPACE
Available in maker space is:
BLOXELS -- Video game design app. Students will be creating video games in the same vein as Mario Bros. by Nintendo. Student can design their main hero, the villain, and create artwork to decorate their game. They can add features to their characters like powers, life.
LEGO Spike Prime -- Students can create robots using the Lego Education tutorials. They will be using an iPad to program the Robot, create an obstacle course so that their robot can move around it.
SHPERO -- Students can practice their coding to move a plastic rolling robot around the room. It reminds me of a hamster ball or the car the boys were traveling around at Jurrasic Park.
Drones -- Practice you pilot skills with a drone. Try doing tricks with them or pick up the speed. Take aerial shots of different objects. The sky is the limit.
iMovie --Need assistance with shooting video and editing? I can help with the basics of camera shots, storyboarding, and editing videos that include intros, outros, music, and green screen. The Library space is available for student use every other week in the mornings at 8:05 a.m. and every day during 3rd lunch. Students who finish work from their teachers can also come and use the maker space. Student must have a pass to the library.
Read Woke Across America
This year for Read Woke Across America we are celebrating diverse books. Come by the library and check out our selection or visit our virtual library on the library website with books linked to the Sora, Learning Ally and Comics Plus apps. Please log in to your SAISD Classlink then click on the books.
THEY CALLED US THE ENEYMY by George Takei
In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.
What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime. -- Barnes & Noble
Available on Sora and Comics Plus.
Disponible en español
EFREN DIVIDED by Ernesto Cisneros
Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings Max and Mía feel safe and loved.
But Efrén worries about his parents; although he’s American-born, his parents are undocumented. His worst nightmare comes true one day when Amá doesn’t return from work and is deported across the border to Tijuana, México.
Now more than ever, Efrén must channel his inner STRENGTH Soperboy to help take care of and try to reunite his family. – Barnes & Noble
Available on Sora and Learning Ally
Available as an Audiobook.
Disponible en español.
Hard copy coming soon to the library
WOKE: A YOUNG POET'S GUIDE TO JUSTICE by Mahogany L Brown, Elizabeth Acevedo, Olivia Gatwood, Theadore Taylor III.
is a collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists.
Historically poets have been on the forefront of social movements. Woke is a collection of poems by women that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice, tackling topics from discrimination to empathy, and acceptance to speaking out. -- Barnes and Noble
Available on Sora
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