Welcome to What's New! in the Ballard High School Library
Check out the Breaking News and be sure to visit the
Library Photo Gallery to see what's happening in the BHS Library! Don't miss any upcoming library events by viewing the updates on the library calendar.
Teacher Librarian TuesD Chambers and Lindi Woods
BREAKING NEWS!
The Ballard Library is transforming before our very eyes! Our beloved bookmobile is being redone by Mr. Connolly's robotics students which showcases great engineering AND a love of reading. The district has updated our lights to be more efficient and they even have dimmers. The 3D Printing Committee has annexed a desk to create a space to meet the 3D printing needs of the community and our workspace is now our Makerspace where Lindi Wood regularly offers "It's Sew Fun" workshops to teach kids to sew and create. A huge thank you to the Ballard community for generously supporting this transformation.
STEAM- Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math that is! We have made binary bracelets in honor of Ada Lovelace and Women’s History Month. We made a guitar out of cardboard and coins with Makey Makeys. We artistically 3D printed our Ballard Beaver mascot and spent
time in Virtual Reality teaching students about the Holocaust and Manchu Pichu.
Stop by the library to see all the ways students are showing their creativity and experiencing the world!
Follow Your Heart Into A Great Book !
We encourage everyone to read a book, snap a photo of yourself reading & the heart hand signal and send to Ms. Chambers at
tschambers@seatteschools.org
Visit the
Follow Your Heart Blog for more info!
#HeartGreatBook
The more we follow our hearts into a great book the better !
The Library was a hub of activity as we hosted the SPS Taste of Making Makerspace Expo. We partnered with Pacific Science Center, Seattle Public Library, and Seattle School District librarians to create an incredible event of tinkering, inventing, and making as staff members were taught different ways to show evidence of learning by Ballard High School's computer science students. The students at each station taught creative problem-solving in collaborative environments and every person who left that day was dazzled by the self-directed learning and thoughtfulness of our students.
The Library has caught a fever- The Rubik's Cube Fever! Nobody is having more fun than students in the Ballard High School Library! We are spending our Thursdays playing virtual reality, at lunch we are solving Rubik's Cubes, we take SPS Great Puzzle breaks, and use our Makerspace for tinker time and classwork. We invite all students and families to be part of the library. Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun!
Please consider joining us in this fever by donating any Rubik's cubes you might have at home or going to Amazon and with one click sending cubes to Ballard High School.
Ballard HS Makerspace Wishlist Link:
http://a.co/50QWYyT We want everyone to catch this Rubik's Cube passion- like a fever!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Ballard High School Library is excited to share that Mr. Wynkoop has won Principal of the Year for Washington State Libraries! Mr. Wynkoop's unwavering commitment to literacy and the library is evidence in the countless hours he spends in staff and student book clubs and the funding he provides for literacy and resources. His support of new technology (VR and AI) in recognition of the changing landscape of learning is profound and his co-leadership in the Digital Learning Instructional Innovation Cohort is noted and admired. We appreciate everything Mr. Wynkoop does to make the Ballard High School library the place we all want to be. Mr Wynkoop attended the awards event with Eagle Staff Middle School Librarian Rebecca Wynkoop and Ballard HS Librarian TueD Chambers.
We are excited to be part of a strong community of Beaver Pride We spent our week trying Oculus Go Virtual Reality headsets, playing with our new Lego Wall, displaying work from the Spanish club for Hispanic Heritage Month, and inspiring students to get Beaver Reader headbands for homecoming.
We pride ourselves on the fact that...
our library is where ALL Beavers belong!
We have been busy busy - and we are just getting started!
It is not unusual to see four different classes using the library space for teaching and learning in one given period. Students have spent this week getting orientated to the library, learning about research skills, finding great books, and recording themselves on
Flipgrid Opens a New Window. (students have ID to log on) to earn a Beaver Reader Headband! Please encourage your child to read fantastic stories and share them with our Ballard community with a 1 minute and 30 second video on Flipgrid. We want to get to know all of our Beaver Readers! The
Beaver Book Club has started meeting on first Fridays and first lunch is reading Born a Crime and the second lunch is deciding between three books.
Watch what is going on in the Ballard HS library!
Beaver Community!
I am thrilled to announce that we won the $100,000 grant award from Farmer's Insurance 2017-2018! The award was unveiled at a faux assembly for 9th graders in 2017 where Ms. Chambers was surprised by her family, district officials and representatives from Farmer's Insurance. View Video! Opens a New Window. Structural work will take place and equipment will be received sometime in 2018 and we anticipate the Learning Commons being 100% transformed during the 2019-20 school year. Thank you to every one who voted! Our community is the best and it is so, so clear that it is Always Great to be a Beaver!! Keven Wynkoop