Discovery Library

Greetings as you fly solo! Here are tips to help you stay connected to reading through our library's electronic resources.

We have more than 250 electronic books (ebooks) and a small sampling of short chapter-book audiobooks. You may check them out one at a time for 1 week (grades K-2) or 2 weeks (grades 3-5) by accessing our library catalog and your library account. Here's how!

• Go to the Discovery Library homepage, available from the upper left corner of this page ("Library Catalog") and from the "Student Life" tab of the Discovery Elementary website.
• Once in the homepage, click on the "catalog" tab up top, which puts you into Destiny, our online catalog.
• For a visual listing of our ebooks and audiobooks, click on "Destiny Discover" from the catalog page's left menu.
• Scroll down to find ebooks in the fourth category and audiobooks lower in fifth place.
• You'll need your user name (student ID number) and password (last name, no caps) to open the books or check them out.  

Reminder to 4th and 5th grades:  You have a sticker in your student planner that lists all the information you need for remote access to our online subscription databases.

This second week of June, all students will find more ideas about how to be safe and responsible while using computers and other tech communication devices. Students' Library Seesaw accounts will feature a lesson on finding a balance between online and offline activities. Stop and think online, Discovery Eagles!

Discovery Eagles now have access to more than 5,000 interactive electronic books (ebooks) from the publishing company Capstone. These ebooks are available to multiple readers at once and have narrators with pleasant voices. Here's how to get started:

• Visit www.mycapstonelibrary.com and click "Log In"
• Username: continue
• Password: reading

Have fun exploring!

Some of your favorite authors and illustrators offer read-alouds, projects, drawing lessons, and more on the website Scholastic Learn at Home.  It has free resources across all subject areas for grades K-5. Enjoy!

URL: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

For some educational, creative and entertaining content from the National Center for Family Literacy,                      check out the website  Wonderopolis at http://wonderopolis.org/

This safe, informative and thought-provoking website explores interesting questions about the world. It's designed to get you and your family to think, talk and find "a-ha!" moments together. Emerging readers may need help with the questions and navigating the answers, but there's something here for curious minds of ALL ages, no matter what you wonder about!

Audible offers a free collection of audiobooks for children and families at Stories.Audible.com. The site is accessible from computers, tablets and smartphones without a log-in or an Audible membership. The books are searchable by age-appropriate interest level; some are also available in Spanish, French, Italian, German and Japanese. Give it a listen!

• The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
• Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings
• Dear Substitute by Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick
• Philomena’s New Glasses by Brenna Maloney
• Rot: The Cutest in the World! by Ben Clanton
• Neck & Neck by Elise Parsley
• Little Brown by Marla Frazee
• I Got a Chicken for My Birthday by Laura Gehl
• Every Day Birds by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater
• Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn
• Hi, Jack! by Mac Barnett
• The Breaking News by Sarah Lynne Reul

Second and Third:

• Charlotte the Scientist Finds a Cure by Camille Andros
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: I Know Exactly What You Are by Julia Kregenow, PhD.
• The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!) by Barry Wittenstein
• The Hen Who Sailed Around the World: A True Story by Guirec Soudée
• Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate
• The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry
• Wait, Rest, Pause: Dormancy in Nature by Marcie Flinchum Atkins
• Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise by David Ezra Stein
• Hello, Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall

  Fourth and Fifth:

• Tricking the Tallyman: The Great Census Shenanigans of 1790 by Jacqueline Davies
• Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka
• Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
• The Hen Who Sailed Around the World: A True Story by Guirec Soudée
• Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate
• The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies
• Squirrel and John Muir by Emily Arnold McCully
• Rabbit and the Motorbike by Kate Hoefler
• Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Warmest thanks to the generous Discovery families who responded early to our 2020 PTSA library donation program!  Several donated books arrived before the March school closure, and our Amazon wish list shows additional purchases. We are grateful for the books already ordered, and if you have them at home, please hold them until school starts. The “Gift A Book” program will resume next year, when this year’s student donors will be included in the recognition and prize drawings. Thank you so much!