Beecher Hills Elementary School

Welcome to the Media Center

General Media Center Information Open from 7:30 am – 3:00 pm All students MUST have a pass to visit the Media Center after 8:00 am No eating or drinking is allowed in the Media Center

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Tables & Seating

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WBUZZ Room Students do a live broadcast Monday-Friday at 7:50 am from the WBUZZ studio Weather, lunch menu, word of the day, joke of the day, Box top reminders, and all other school announcements are a part of the daily “WBUZZ” newscast

WBUZZ Room

Book Room/Media Room Textbooks for all grade levels can be found in the school’s Book Room Videos, camcorders, LCD projectors, document cameras, old newspapers and magazines, cords, extra mice, televisions, ACTIVotes, and the iPad carts can be found in the Media Room

Media Specialist’s Office & Book/Media Room

Computers Students must have a pass from their teacher to use computers. The pass must indicate how the computers will be used Please do not use the computers for playing games unless it is FIRST IN MATH Please come with your Accelerated Reader user ID & Password & Quiz Number Students may print. Please ask Ms. Stargell for paper

Computers

Our Story Time Area

Easy Books Easy reader books, also sometimes called beginning reader books, can help transition children from having picture books read to them, to reading chapter books on their own. Easy readers are great for building basic vocabularies and providing context for new words to help encourage younger children as they learn to read.

Easy Books

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Books that are made up by the author. These books are NOT true. Fiction Books Books that are made up by the author. These books are NOT true. Examples of fiction are: Harry Potter Junie B. Jones Judy Moody

Fiction Books

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Some examples of reference books include the following: Print reference works provide you with factual information on specialized subjects. You may not check out a reference book, so you must use it within the Media Center ONLY. Some examples of reference books include the following: Dictionaries Encyclopedias Almanacs Atlases Thesaurus

Reference Books

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Nonfiction Books Books that are TRUE Books about real things, events, and places Organized by the Dewey Decimal system by number Examples of nonfiction are: Books about animals Books about the solar system Books about recycling and going green

Nonfiction Books

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Biographies Books about people who are either living or dead. Biographies are located behind the reference books.

Promethean Board The promethean board is used for whole class presentations including interactive lessons and videos

IB Books International Baccalaureate books that go along with the units being studied for each grade level are housed on the “BEE IB Book Shelves”.

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Circulation Desk

Checking Out Books Students in grades K-2 may check out 1 book at a time Students in grades 3-5 may check out 2 books at a time Students will not be allowed to check out any books if they have an overdue book out You may renew a book one time Reference books may not be checked out There are no fines for late books, but you must pay the total cost of LOST books

Buzzzzzz by the Media Center today! Thank you!!!! Buzzzzzz by the Media Center today!