December 2010

As our calendar turns to December, just a brief reminder that the Sylvan Dell books are available for home and school use. Any student at Peebles can access these books from their home computer for a read -along or read -aloud experience. Don't forget the book quizzes can be found on the book's homepage. There is a quiz for reading and another for math for each story. Great practice for multiple choice testing!

Sylvan Dell also has an online book store for families. Each title is available there along with stuffed animals representing many of the characters.

Summertime... and you can still read ebooks online!

Hi, Peebles Families,

I hope you are enjoying your first days of summer break! Whenever you want to hear a great story, remember you can grab your computer and head over to the Sylvan Dell Grant and enjoy an e-book! No, the hardcover books from the Title I parent involvement Grant won't be available, but you can listen and read along to all 55 of those wonderful titles. Two things to remember after you read them: (1) take a few minutes and do the online comprehension checks at the books home page - (right column mom and dad under quizzes) there is also one there for math word problem practice. (2) create a family account at voicethread.com and you can make your ideas on the Sylvan Dell books known too.

The links can be found under the boy holding the stack of books!

Happy Reading!

Mrs. Spohn

End of May - and make that 5 New Online books!

Make that list a bit longer. The good folks at Sylvan Dell Publishing have added 5 new books this month. Champ's Story: Dogs Get Cancer Too just went online today! These books are only available online, but you can enjoy them and then make a comment on the PES Voicethread.

What a great surprise!!!

Today while a first grader was re-teaching us how to get to our e-book account, we discovered that the great folks at Sylvan Dell have added four new titles! These are available ONLINE only.

Enjoy!!!

ONLY ONLINE!!!!!

getting to the Sylvan Dell ebooks...

Go to the Sylvan Dell Books online HERE!!!!

All 50 titles are available to read or listen to ONLINE. Peebles Site License Link: http://www.sylvandellpublishing.com/sitelicense.php?sc=Y8NHFX

You can comment about these titles on the Peebles Voicethread:

http://peeblesreaders.ed.voicethread.com/share/1080496/

Title I Poetry

We are enjoying our voicethread so much, we decided to do a Title I Poetry blog too! On Friday, May 7th we had a wonderful "Parents, Poems, and Pizza Event" for our Title I families. During that time we performed some poems, read some other poems and finally wrote some poetry with our families. Now we are working to get all those poems voiced on voicethread.

Hope you will visit and listen in! You are welcome to make a comment from your computer. Sign up is free and easy. This is also a moderated thread so all comments are approved by me before they go 'live'.

http://voicethread.com/#q.b1129702.i6059864

May - a perfect time for an e-book!

Did you know that we have had over 640 hits for our Sylvan Dell ebooks pages? Hope that you and your family have enjoyed some of these stories online. This is truly cutting edge technology that delivers beautiful texts right to your home computer while reinforcing math and science concepts for your child.

We are thrilled to have over 50 comments on our PES voicethread. Your family can sign up for a free voicethread account and your child (or you) can add a comment about one of these titles right from home. Take a few minutes and listen in as our youngest learners practice 'book talks'. Then make one of your own!

I shared the voicethread link with the folks at Sylvan Dell and they said:

• May 2, 2010
• Thanks very much for showing me this! I forwarded your email to all of our staff, and everyone agreed they were quite cute. Thanks for making us smile today!
  
  Best
  
  Erica Beyerl
  School & Library Sales
  
  Sylvan Dell Publishing
  976 Houston Northcutt Blvd., Suite 3
  Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

The web does make it possible to read to and respond to the greater community!