NMES Media Center News
November 2024
Welcome
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!
Books and Bots: Family Coding Night
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024, 06:00 PM
New Market Elementary School, West Main Street, New Market, MD, USA
Books and Bots: Family Coding Night
The national Hour of Code celebration is held in December each year! Help NMES celebrate computer science by visiting our school to enjoy the NMES Family Coding Night! Come and
go as you want to enjoy robot-themed story times and activities, try our various robots and strike a pose at our robot-themed Selfie Station! Don't forget to enter your name into our drawing
that night for a chance to win coding books and prizes!
Book Character Pumpkin Contest
Thank you to everyone who participated in the media center's book character pumpkin contest! Your creativity is amazing! Congratulations to the following winners. They each earned a $10 gift certificate to the spring book fair! You can see all of the entries at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E7R0gtFMuCnQocCPTi5Yqhbf6t34hE98/view
- Overall Winner: Cooper Beachy and Garrett Cramer (Very Hungry Caterpillar)
- Best PreK-1st: Penny Vinson (Cookie Monster)
- Best 2nd-3rd: Jane Ratcliffe (Witch from Room on the Broom)
- Best 4th-5th: Bailey Laffin (Humphrey)
- Best Picture: Ryan Gray (Flippy from Dog Man)
- Most Creative: Aurora Walmsley (Tsunami from Wings of Fire)
- Funniest: Noelle Garcia (Elvis)
- Cutest: Lyla Meyers (Cats from Katie the Catsitter)
- Artistic Spirit: Sutton Davis (The Mousetress from Katie the Catsitter)
Optional Holiday Choice Board
Our NMES wolves love to learn, so here's an optional holiday choice board to keep them exploring all month long! In November, they can learn about Veterans Day, Thanksgiving 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.
Fun Fall Reads!
Bowwow Powwow
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code
Thank a Farmer
Databases, eBooks and More!
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.