DESERT CANYON ELEMENTARY PTO

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LIBRARY

 Students can now view their daily progress in AR reading at any time simply by accessing Home Connect from any computer with Internet access. Use your school AR username and password to access this information from home.

Accelerated Reader
· View goals, results of the last quiz taken, and overall progress
· Find books that have Accelerated Reader quizzes
· View My Bookshelf which shows the books on which quizzes have been taken

 AR Progress Email Notifications
Students may specify up to six email addresses of parents, guardians, or relatives to receive updates of student progress via email. The recipient must accept the invitation for the notifications to begin. Emails will be sent automatically by the program and will contain results of any Accelerated Reader quizzes the student completes.
 
Go to:  https://hosted90.renlearn.com/254085/HomeConnect/Login.aspx . 
We are accepting gently used books (without writing in them) to use as prizes for our Accelerated Reader program.  Donations accepted in the library.  Please email or call Mrs. Ferguson with any questions at 480-484-1742.

BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB

DCES PTO is proud to offer the Birthday Book Club as a way for families to directly contribute to our library shelves and for children to celebrate their birthdays in a special way.  Birthday Book Club purchases library-quality hard bound books that are "shelf-ready", meaning they have been labeled with bar codes, call numbers and Accelerated Reader information.  Students come to the library after their lunch to pick out a book from a pre-purchased selection that are sorted and displayed on grade appropriate tables.  The student's name is written on a BBC bookplate inside the front cover and they get to be the first to check the book out!  Students may also have the library choose and label a book for them, if they don't want to miss their lunch recess!  This leaves the child with a lasting legacy at DCES - a library book for children to enjoy for years.
Most of our small collection was left for us by the Scottsdale Public Library when Arabian library moved off our campus to its present location - and most of those books are over 10 years old!  Last year, BBC put 438 NEW in-demand books on our shelves, almost 5 times more than we would have received from the District budget alone.  It is the goal of BBC to provide 500 new books for our library in the 2009-2010 school year.  We hope you can join us in reaching our goal! Click here for more information, or here to sign up for your child's party!

Summer Reading Ideas for the Scottsdale School District Community

http://ex.susd.org/sewers/summerreading/