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Locust Lane Library Resources: Literacy Center

Reading Resources

Checkout eBooks and Audiobooks with Sora!

Apps & Features: K-12 Schools – Apps – OverDrive Resource Center

Username: School ID
Password: Lunch PIN


Read and Research Nonfiction Topics with PebbleGo!
Pebble Go

No need for a username or password; this link will take you right to our site.


Listen to and Watch a Story with TumbleBooks

For Parents :: Ida Grove Public Library

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Playtime

PBS Kids

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Play games with all your favorite characters.


LEGO Challenges

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Do you have LEGOs at home? Try one of these fun activities!


Coding with Tynker

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Practice coding with a variety of fun games. You can play five games for free online, or get the app from Self Service on your school iPad and play unlimited games!

Podcasts for Kids

Why not try listening to a podcast?

You can listen online using these links, or have a grown-up help you use their favorite podcast app.


Wow in the World

WITW

A journey into the wonders of the world around you. Go inside your brain, out into space and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology.


But Why?

But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids : NPR

show led by you, kids! You ask the questions and they find the answers. They tackle topics large and small, about nature, words, even the end of the world.


Circle Round

Circle Round

Adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into radio plays for kids ages 4 to 10. Each 10- to 20-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence and generosity.


Kids Ask Authors

Kids Ask Authors

A new, weekly 5-10 minute podcast where children’s book author/illustrator Grace Lin and a guest author answer one question from a child reader. Most episodes will end with a book review, poem, short story or a joke by kids!

Search for Books

Search the Locust Lane Library for Books!

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To request a book, use the borrower number on your library card.

Reading Challenges

Compete in Locust Lane's Battle of the Books!

Battle of the Books First Place

List of Books

Take a Reading Quiz


Take part in a reading challenge on BeanStack!

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Access Beanstack through Clever on your school iPad!

You can do fun challenges like:

*Ms. Abel's Get-to-Know Beanstack Challenge

*Hallo-Read Around the World

Virtual Field Tips

Try going on a field trip without leaving the comfort of your house!


The Deep Sea

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See what animals and organisms survive at various depths of the ocean.


Google Earth-Voyager

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Try a wide variety of videos and interactive maps to take all kinds of themed field trips around the world.


The Met 360 Project

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Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City! Make sure to move your iPad around to see in every corner.


San Diego Zoo

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Watch LIVE videos of what the animals are doing at the zoo right now!

Book Club

Here's what we're reading in Lunch Book Club!


3rd Grade 

Bob

by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead

Bob: Mass, Wendy, Stead, Rebecca, Gannon, Nicholas: 9781250166623:  Amazon.com: Books


4th Grade

Willodeen

by Katherine Applegate

Willodeen: Applegate, Katherine: 9781250147400: Amazon.com: Books


5th Grade

The Beast and the Bethany

by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

The Beast and the Bethany (1): Meggitt-Phillips, Jack, Follath, Isabelle:  9781534478893: Amazon.com: Books