The Day the Crayons Quit

What a fun and entertaining story about a young boy named Duncan who only wants to color but to his surprise when he opens his crayon box, he finds letters instead of crayons.  There is so much you can do with this story for grades K-6. Check out these lesson plans and activities.

The Library Survey has Launched!!!

I know those of us in library land who work in the state of California, have eagerly been awaiting the updated survey for school libraries. Well the wait is over... The California Department of Education has launched the updated survey and it will be active until June 30, 2017. You do have some time, but I encourage you not to wait until the last minute to complete the survey. The CDE relies on your assistance, to complete the survey for your school or schools, and to encourage other schools to complete the survey even if you or they do not have a library. Please take this opportunity to complete the survey and assist the CDE in gathering information about individual school libraries as they were at the end of the 15-16 school year. I have included the link to the library survey and here is the password: @YourLibrary (typed just as it appears here) to access the survey. 

Connect, Collaborate, and Grow Through Diversity

CSLA Annual Conference 2017 was DYNAMIC! I met new people, enjoyed my time with old friends, and received a wealth of knowledge to take back to my school library. One of the presentations that I shared was on diversity in the school library. Thought I'd share... 😄 Click on the link below ↓

Connect, Collaborate, and Grow through Diversity

Martin's BIG Words

A fun activity to get the students thinking about the power of words! This week I shared Martin's Big Words by: Doreen Rappaport with my fourth graders and we discussed the meaning of "BIG Words." Then we created a collage of our own "BIG" words. This of course was an opportunity for the students to use markers/colored pencils/and crayons (Yippie!!!) but you can also have your students create a Wordle of their "BIG" words.

Teaching Tolerance

This is a great resource for integrating #diversity into your school library program. Teaching Tolerance has a lot of #freeresources that you can use so no need to reinvent the wheel. #diversityequityandjustice for our students.