Your 6th Annual Elf Yourself Holiday Greeting from A Year of Reading!

Consider this your 6th Annual Elf Yourself Holiday Greeting from Mary Lee and Franki!

Also, consider it a Public Service Announcement...No matter how busy you are, take a few minutes to create an ELF YOURSELF video this holiday season. 

Seriously, they never get old--no matter how many times you create them or how many times you watch them! Treat yourself to some fun!

Happy Holidays!

BLOG BIRTHDAY!

Four years ago today we started this blog! Hard to believe we've been at it that long, but we are still having LOADS of fun!

Here are some of our blog features that have been going strong all four years:

100 Cool Teachers of Children's Literature

Poetry Friday

Elf Yourself

Newbery Predictions (Clearly, a goal for the next 4 years could be More Consistent Tagging. Here are some posts tagged "Potential Newbery" and here are a few more tagged "Newbery," but I know there are more hiding in the archives...)

New features this year:

Our 21st Century Literacies posts

Franki's "Books I Could Read A Million Times"

Our most commented on (non-Poetry Friday) posts this year:

Franki's Scaredy Squirrel Halloween Costume

Mary Lee's stop-action video of setting up her desk at school

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Dublin bloggers

National Day on Writing KitLitCon09 Video

Our most commented on Poetry Friday posts this year:

January 16 -- Part for the Whole

February 27 -- No Words to Describe

March 27 -- New Car

November 12 -- Veteran's Day Coincidence

THANK YOU, READERS AND FOLLOWERS, COMMENTERS AND LURKERS, FOR A GREAT 4 YEARS AND LOTS MORE TO COME!!! --MARY LEE AND FRANKI

Sunday Silliness

It's that time of the year again. Time for holiday greetings.

We're celebrating two holidays today: Report Cards Are Done (a holiday celebrated by teachers around the world), and Elf Yourself (a holiday brought to you by OfficeMax).

CHEERS!

(If you're feeling grumpy today, you can Scrooge Yourself here.)

Go Elf Yourself!

You know you want to be a dancing elf, and now you can!

Mary Lee's an elf! Franki's an elf! Bess the Dog is an elf!

Happy Craziness to all, and to all a good night!