A Year of Reading

JWe know we didn't do such a great job of live blogging from All Write, as we had planned. But Franki will be at #NerdcampMi and she'...

I discovered Liesl Shurtliff's books this year and shared Rump as a read aloud with my 3rd graders . It was one of our favorites and...

Happy Almost-the-Fourth! Donna has the Poetry Friday Roundup this week at Mainley Write .

We are starting a Mock Newbery Club at our school this year.  We have a meeting coming up to introduce books and think about those we'd...

I don't tend to enjoy audiobooks but am working to change that. My preference is to read self-help type books as those seem good for sh...

I've read quite a bit over the last week. These are my favorites:-) Two FABULOUS middle grade novels! LOVE LOVE LOVE both of t...

This video is fascinating. Take the 7 minutes to watch it. It is about the way we learn, how hard it is to unlearn something you thou...

I got my sketchbook out for the first time in 3 years, and look what I found: We call them "glads" because they are; b...

I discovered 2 new picture book this week. I ordered a big stack at the library after All Write and they are starting to come in. At All...

The Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown (her "Doodlers, unite!" TED talk is here ) Penguin, 2014 review copy from the public li...