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2018 Student Bookmark Designs from Valley Crest Elementary

Every year for the past several years, students at Valley Crest Elementary engage in a bookmark design contest to encourage reading. The winning bookmarks are printed and distributed to students in the school. Jenny Wadsworth, media clerk at Valley Crest Elementary, agreed that more people should have the chance to see these cute bookmarks, and she kindly shared them with us to share with you.

Below we present the 2018 Valley Crest Elementary Student-Designed Bookmarks!

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Download a printable PDF version of the bookmarks here. We’ve also shared all of the bookmarks on Pinterest in this Library Posters and Graphics Board. The student artist names are noted in the PDF version and in the file names of the images shared above.

Thank you to Jenny Wadsworth for managing this contest each year and sharing these bookmarks with us, in addition to the many other things she does to promote a culture of reading at her school.

Bonus: Prior Year Bookmark Sets

This contest has been going for several years and printable files still exist for some of the other years, so we are sharing/archiving them below.

2016 Valley Crest Student Bookmark Gallery

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This article was originally posted on Granite Media, our library media program site, at https://www.granitemedia.org/2018/07/student-bookmark-designs-from-valley-crest-elementary/.

Highlights from Granite’s Battle of the Books 2018 Competition

Battle of the Books 2018 - Rosecrest Elementary Signage

26 teams of 5th and 6th grade students from across Granite School District converged on Rosecrest Elementary last Thursday, April 19, for the 2018 Battle of the Books District Competition.

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Upcoming Event: Battle of the Books District Competition (Grades 5-6)

The Granite School District Battle of of the Books Competition will take place on the evening of Thursday, April 19, 2018, at Rosecrest Elementary School. [Read more…] about Upcoming Event: Battle of the Books District Competition (Grades 5-6)

Highlights from Literacy Night at Olympus Jr. High

Earlier this week Olympus Jr. High hosted a Literacy Night open to all students, parents, and staff in Granite School District. Jennifer Peirce, District Educational Technology Specialist, shared the following snapshots with us from the event.

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Five visiting authors were in attendance,

  • Shelly Brown (Ghostsitter, Mustaches for Maddie)
  • Frank L. Cole (The Afterlife Academy, Potion Masters, The World’s Greatest Adventure Machine)
  • Chad Morris (Cragbridge Hall series, Mustaches for Maddie)
  • Bobbie Pyron (A Dog’s Way Home, Lucky Strike, A Pup Called Trouble)
  • Dan Wells  (Mirador series, The Partials Sequence)

as well as representatives from Granite school libraries and Educational Technology staff, Salt Lake County Library System, UEN, and other educational and literacy-promoting organizations.

Many thanks to Jessica Moody, Library Media Educational Technology Specialist at Olympus Jr. High, and everyone at Olympus Jr. High, the authors, and these other organizations for putting this event together for our community.

Update: Code to Success Parent/Student Information Night

Granite Code to Success Parent Student Information Night 20180301 - Flyer
Granite Code to Success Parent Student Information Night 20180301 – Flyer

Granite School District is hosting an informational meeting for parents and students on the Code to Success summer coding camp. Code to Success is a free 9-week coding bootcamp open to all students grades 8-12 in Granite School District. The camp runs from June 11-August 9 on Mondays through Thursdays.

Code to Success
Parent Student Information Night
Thursday, March 1, 2018
5:30 P.M.
Granite Education Center
Room D-102 (1st Floor of 5-Story Building)
2500 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84115

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Highlights from Granite’s FIRST LEGO League 2018 Qualifier

On Saturday, February 3, 2018, over 300 students from elementary and junior high schools across Granite School District, 44 coaches, 67 volunteers, and bleacher-filling numbers of supportive family and friends came together at Granger High School for Granite’s FIRST LEGO League 2018 Qualifier. Student teams were judged on their robot design, project presentations (researched, innovative solutions to real-world problems), core values, and performance in the robot games.

These teams advanced to the state competition, held the following week at Weber State University:

Many thanks to the coaches, volunteers, and parents who made this experience possible for our students.   [Read more…] about Highlights from Granite’s FIRST LEGO League 2018 Qualifier

Now Registering: High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge

High school students in Utah are invited to submit innovative business ideas to the High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge for a chance to win $20,000 in cash and scholarship prizes.  [Read more…] about Now Registering: High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge

Now Registering: Code to Success Summer Coding Camp

Granite School District is once again hosting Code to Success in the summer of 2018! This is an absolutely free summer coding camp open to all junior high and high school students in Granite School District.  [Read more…] about Now Registering: Code to Success Summer Coding Camp

Teacher Spotlight: Tiffany Pontius, Truman Elementary

TNN — Truman News Network

Breaking news! All Salt Lake City news reporters and anchors just may have their job security challenged due to some up and coming talent…hungry for reporting the news. That’s right! Truman News Network, or TNN, is currently taking up residence at Truman Elementary in Taylorsville. Student council members as well as guest reporters tell it like it is every week. Their well-received news cast is filled with information about the weather, sports, holidays, special events, book of the week, word of the day, staff and employee interviews, and the habit of the week. What is the habit of the week, you may ask? Well, on top of all the other awesome things going on at Truman Elementary, they are also a “Seven Habits of Happy Kids” school, wherein they review key ingredients of being successful in life!

TNN is organized by Tiffany Pontius, the School Technology Specialist for Truman Elementary. What could be an overwhelming and daunting task is smooth sailing due to Tiffany’s awesome organization and procedural planning. The best thing about this is that Tiffany prepares her students to be in charge of the news programs. This includes choosing the stories, writing the scripts, and deciding what props and backgrounds to use in place of the green screen when filming and editing. It is purely a situation of a student-led activity. No “sage on the stage” for Tiffany! She simply facilitates this well-oiled machine of news and information. She has used her skills as a top-notch educator to empower her 6th grade TNN members so that they gain confidence in running the news segments.

How do they do it? It all begins with a storyboard. Students choose what assignments they will have for the upcoming news cast during “staff meetings.” Reporters are then on the hunt for the news that will enlighten and inform the students. The student anchors create the script and film the leads. As soon as all of the elements are completed, one of the students edits the footage at home using WeVideo.

When asked the most challenging aspects of this project, the students replied, “…being able to film without laughing…getting everyone on the same page…and finding a time when all are able to meet.” What a terrific way to teach students how to collaborate in an authentic setting!

They also commented that the best thing about TNN is “…being on camera…writing the scripts…editing…hanging out with their friends…and working with Miss Pontius.” We would like to thank Tiffany for being a vital part of Granite School District. Her willingness to go the extra mile with her students and allow them to experience project-based learning, collaboration, problem solving, and creativity in the classroom should be celebrated.

Be sure to visit Truman TNN on YouTube!

Spotlight Created by Pam Moeai, Educational Technology Specialist and Team Leader.