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 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 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!…
Author: Ethan Long
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Summary: The author of Fright Club, Ethan Long, has come up with another fun holiday story! This time centering around the monsters’ annual Thanksgiving feast. The food was coming along very nicely as everyone worked together to create sweet potato casserole, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and of course the perfect turkey. But then Vladimir’s family arrives for an unexpected visit, and the feast begins to slowly change. Will Vladimir’s family ruin Thanksgiving? Or will they all find a way to be thankful for what they have? Read to find out!
Author: Drew Daywalt
Illustrator: David Spencer
Summary: Huggie and Stick belong to a little boy named Reese. Normally they travel around with Reese, safe in his backpack. Unfortunately, today is the day of the BIG ACCIDENT! You and your kids will laugh out loud as you read the different perspectives of their epic journey. Told through diary entries, one from the ever-optimistic Stick, and one from the over-pessimistic Huggie! Will they ever find their way home again?
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