If you’ve been patiently waiting for me to finish the 3rd Grade Literacy Lesson Plans, I’m happy to announce that your wait is FINALLY over!  Yes, you read that correctly! They are officially posted here on my website as well as on my TpT store!        If you are new to my website,…

Want a fun way to help students be successful next year?  Encourage reading with a summer reading challenge! Educators know the dangers of students not reading during the summer, and we even have a term for it…the dreaded “summer slide”.  I always talk with my kiddos about the importance of continuing their reading before we leave…

The end of the year in the library brings many stresses, but the biggest one for me is how to get library books returned at the end of the year.  I’ve tried making announcements in the morning and handing out certificates for classes to post on their door showing that they have turned everything in…

I’ve been wanting to find a way to celebrate books with my Kinder, 1st, and 2nd graders, and I finally came up with the idea to do a Battle of the Texas 2×2 books!  I modeled it after the March Madness basketball tournament, but with the award books competing against each other to move onto…