A Year of Reading

Mary Lee asked me to be "guest blogger" for Poetry Friday today.  It is funny being a guest blogger on our own blog. But, Mary Lee...

In a brilliant marketing move, Albert Whitman & Company has jumped on the current SillyBandz craze and created packages of Book Bands t...

(In an attempt to live a more balanced life, I thought I would share a great recipe today.) Today, we had a Teacher Sneak Peek at the Book F...

Michael Grant visited our school last week to talk to the our 4th and 5th graders about his new series, THE MAGNIFICENT 12.  If you haven...

(I am taking a Web 2.0 course through the University of Alberta's Teacher-Librarianship program. This week's assignment was to exami...

INTRODUCTION Here's a book Of Aesop's Fables, Tales where turtles Turn the tables, Tales with lions, Tales with mice, Tales wh...

My good friend and colleague Nicole, told me about this new book called MEMOIRS OF A GOLDFISH . As she was telling me all about it and wh...

I just found a great new book for beginning readers, TUCK ME IN!  by Dean Hacohen and Sherry Scharschmidt. This is a fun bedtime book for yo...

As you know if you read my blog posts, I love new songbooks. I think they are quite fun and I also know how important they are for early lit...

In the library today, I overheard one of our second graders with a new student. She was walking around showing her the library and helping h...