online multimedia books:Have you checked out our library's Lightbox Books? These multimedia books can be accessed 24/7 from anywhere via our Follett Destiny Discover catalog and provide students with interactive text, videos, animations, activity sheets, and google maps. Better yet, they allow for unlimited users so students can view them simultaneously. Here are just some of the Lightbox titles we have available:
If you need help accessing the books please don't hesitate to contact us. Library Cards For All!One of our biggest goals here in the OPS library is to encourage our students' love of reading. We're always looking for ways to make books and library programs more accessible for our students. With this mind, we recently teamed with the Oradell Public Library to help over twenty of our fourth grade students sign up for public library cards. We are thrilled to have them gain access to the Oradell Public Library's vast array of books, videos, and library programs. Better yet, the students were able to pick up their new library cards during school. Moving forward we are planning to expand this program to other grades as the year progresses. A special thanks to OPS 4th grade teacher Mrs. O'Keeffe for sparking this wonderful idea and Ms. Robin Rockman from the Oradell Public Library for helping to make it happen. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT IN THE LIBRARY:In January, our K - 2nd grade classes continued to explore nonfiction books by identifying text features they can use to locate information within a book or website. The 2nd graders also compared fiction and nonfiction books on the same subject, noting the facts contained in both and discussing how authors research the subjects of their books whether they are writing fiction or nonfiction. Meanwhile, our 3rd - 4th graders conducted their own investigation of nonfiction. The third grade worked on identifying the main idea in a nonfiction text and supporting it with evidence (facts) from the text. The fourth graders explored biographies by looking at the various types (biography, autobiography and memoir), and by asking and answering some basic biography questions (who, what, where, when, why, how and I wonder...) about them. Our 5th graders continued their study of how to avoid plagiarism by learning how to properly format a MLA 8 style citation for a book. They located the various elements needed for a book citation, created citations using MLA 8 style formatting, and organized their completed citations on a work cited page. The sixth graders took a look at various online biographical resources, including World Book and Biography.com. They researched a famous African American, American woman, or Holocaust survivor, compared the information they gathered, and decided which biographical resource provided the best information.
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