New Year’s Reading Goals

New Year's Reading Goals

As our winter break comes to and end, I always have a mix of feelings of anguish and excitement.  I feel sad that the alarm has to go back to being set early, but extremely happy at the thought of seeing all the kids and catching up with them!   Plus January also means it’s time…

Making a Winter Wonderland in the Library

Every December, we turn the library into a Winter Wonderland to coincide with our winter festival called “Cookies with Santa“.  We have carnival type games in the gym, food and sometimes silent auctions in the cafeteria, winter crafts in the art room, and then of course Santa Claus and cookies in the library.  It’s a lot…

Unplugged Coding Activity

  I love celebrating the Hour Of Code in December with my students, and I’m always on the lookout for new games or resources to introduce to my students.  When I came across the book, How To Code a Sandcastle by Josh Funk, I knew I had to buy it and use it this year…

Book Talks for Elementary Kids

Book Talks

Book Talks are a powerful way to share new books with students and encourage them to try out different genres they may not have thought about before.   While I have been doing book talks with my students for years, I wanted to bump it up a notch and not only have them begin to create…

Autumn in the Library

Autumn in the Library

Autumn in the library is always a crazy, busy, exciting time!  Despite my best intentions to blog about things I’m doing with my students or things I’ve created I seem to get side-tracked by our Literacy Night, then our Fall Festival, then our Book Fair, then Veteran’s Day….and before you know it, November is almost over!…