I hope all of you are well as we practice social distancing to protect each other and our loved ones from COVID-19.   While spending quality time with your loved ones at home, I encourage you to read, read, read.  

Below is a list of sites where you can access ebooks for free:

• Junior Library Guild Digital Online Reading Platform is giving unlimited access to read books online from any device
  • JLG Digital Home:  https://jlg.ipublishcentral.com
    
    • Elementary -  Username: JLGELM  Password:  JLGFREE
    • Middle School -  Username: JLGMID  Password:  JLGFREE
    • High School -  Username:  JLGHI  Password:  JLGFREE
• MackinVIA has made it's collection of middle school classics free to all school districts closed for social distancing.  
  • MackinVIA
    • Type in our school name:  Harry Hurst Middle School
    • Username:  hurst
    • Password:  roadrunners
• Use your library card to access the St. Charles Parish Public Library's digital collection of books, comics, magazines, etc.
  • Browse St. Charles Parish Public Library
• Browse Google Lit2Go by genre or collections to find what interests you 
  • Lit2Go

Use your social media to start book clubs with your friends and share ideas for what you are reading and would recommend to others.

Here are some recommendations for what to do when you aren't reading:

• Watch Broadway musicals
• Free coloring books from world-class libraries and museums
• Have a digital movie night with your friends
• Learn how to code
• Get you siblings together and watch authors read their books aloud. There are some teen and young adult links here, also.
• Walt Disney Imagineering Partners With Khan Academy To Bring You ‘Imagineering in a Box’
• Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games.
• Take virutal tours using Google Earth
• Or try these virtual field trips
• Art Lessons
• 10 Disney Zumba Videos to Work up a Magical Sweat

I wish you all health, peace, and happiness as we bunker down to protect each other during this time.

Mrs. Lusco