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…

  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!…