A Year of Reading

I bought a copy of GIANTS BEWARE  by Rafael Rosado and Jorge Aguirre at our Selections Book Fair. I hadn't seen it but it was a hit ...

DIRECTIONS by Connie Wanek First you'll come to the end of the freeway. Then it's not so much north on Woodland Avenue as...

Go, Go, Grapes! A Fruit Chant by April Pulley Sayre Beach Lane Books, 2012 I said it last year when I reviewed Rah, Rah, Radish...

One of our big 4th grade projects was our MADE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE PROJECT . As part of this integrated project, each student created an Ig...

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(Thanks to Jen and Kellee at TEACH MENTOR TEXTS for creating this great tradition and for rounding up the week's reading!) It was ...

To view on Flickr, go here . Happy May. Happy June. Happy Summer.

I had a hard time deciding how to end my time with kids in the library. I am excited to go back to the classroom, but leaving Riverside and ...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by kicksave2930 RAIN It is finally raining. After a long period of unseasonable heat and unending ...

I finished listening to The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach) yesterday. I can't say I wound up loving it -- Harbach makes his characters ...