Our library likes to display a list of “national” events which occur during the month. This list includes monthly recognitions, weekly celebrations, wacky and crazy daily celebrations, as well as the birthdays of famous people and authors/illustrators. For our display, I also include the birthdays of our students and faculty. Feel free to adapt the… More February 2019
It is shocking that so many adults in today’s world do not have basic reading or writing skills. In an effort to combat these statistics, people around the globe are participating in World Read Aloud Day on Friday, February 1. There are many ways to participate – Skype visits, read aloud events in your classroom… More World Read Aloud Day
This was another week of exploring the Caldecott titles. I so enjoy sharing these books with my kiddos. This week was especially fun as we did wordless books. For second, third, and fourth grades I used the “Wordless Book Story Chart” worksheet found on the Library Sparks web site. The fifth graders had to fill out my… More Week by Week Series – Week 20
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019 (1/25/19) is in its 6th year and was founded by Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom. Our mission is to raise awareness of the ongoing need to include kids’ books that celebrate diversity in homes and school bookshelves while also working diligently to get… More Multicultural Children’s Book Day
This week was a fun one for me. I got to do one of the things I most enjoy – helping elementary students learn the joys of research. I also got to share Caldecott books with my elementary classes. My second graders visited the library to research – their first time to do so. The… More Week by Week series – Week 19
Love this! I can’t imagine having only 30 books – We have at least 10 book shelves in our house and they are all full! How many books do you own?
Welcome to second semester. Our administration always tries to have a first week be a short one, so we started on Wednesday. The first day is always a little chaotic in the library – students with new independent studies, students with schedule issues who need a temporary home, etc. As first days go, this one… More Week by Week series – Week 18
Have you ever wondered about this? Interesting information on book lengths.
I don’t know about you but by the time Christmas vacation arrived, I was ready for a break from all things library (although I never stopped reading). This was our first week back – kids started yesterday. I realized I never gave you final update on our Christmas reading promotion. Over half of our elementary… More Christmas Reading Promotion
Each month our library displays a list of “national” events which occur during the month. This list includes monthly recognitions, weekly celebrations, wacky and crazy daily celebrations, as well as the birthdays of famous people and authors/illustrators. For our display, I also include the birthdays of our students and faculty. Feel free to adapt the… More January 2019