NMES Media Center News

Welcome to the newsletter for the NMES Media Center! If you have any questions or need more information, please email Mrs. Siderius, our media specialist, at jennifer.siderius@fcps.org. Follow us on Twitter @FCPS_NMESMedia for pictures of our learning in action!

The NMES Coding Club is open to all students in 3rd-5th grades who are interested in boosting their coding skills through learning Scratch and Micro:bits! NMES Coding Club will run on Wednesday mornings from February 19th-April 2nd in the media center from 8:00-8:30 AM. Students will be dismissed to their homerooms at 8:30 a.m. Students may be dropped off at the blue awning door between 7:45-7:55 a.m., where a staff member will meet them. After 7:55 AM, students must be signed in through the front office to come up to the media center for the club. If schools are closed or there is a late arrival for any reason, then the club will not run that day.

Parents of interested students should fill out this form (https://bit.ly/nmescode25) by Friday, February 7, 2025. Mrs. Siderius will randomly draw 25 participants the week of February 10th and notify everyone by email on whether or not their child's name was drawn.

Please email Mrs. Siderius, our media specialist, with any questions at jennifer.siderius@fcps.org.

Our NMES wolves love to learn, so here's an optional holiday choice board to keep them exploring all month long! In February, they can learn about Black History Month, Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day and more!! All links will take you directly to articles in PebbleGo. If you need assistance, please reach out to our media specialist, Mrs. Siderius, at jennifer.siderius@fcps.org.

The media center offers many research databases to help students with projects and independent learning! All of them may be accessed on the media center website at https://edu.fcps.org/nmes/media. A list of all the usernames and passwords is located on the media website and at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AbTN9FtNmdfoNr3yfeKzNZRGmTm75I8r_n_XoijU1jE/edit?usp=sharing. Please log into the password document with an FCPS username and password.