218. Booktalking
Booktalking has gone well this year! It helped that we did the hardest one first – one hour per grade. (Most are 20-30 minutes per grade.) All the rest seemed…
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215. Silent Book Club
Silent Book Club has been going more than half a year now! I’m doing lots and lots of reading – It’s such a treat to one night a week get…
214. My Blogs
It’s been months since I posted on this blog, but a couple days ago I posted the quote above on Sonderquotes, and I decided I want to bring back this…
211. Talking about the Newbery in Classrooms
I’ve recently contacted some elementary school librarians – and I’m getting to go into the schools and talk with kids about the Newbery process and how the Medal winner is…
208. New Books and Time to Read Them
I’ve got four days off for Christmas. They’ll be sort of busy, but there should be plenty of time to read in there. And – today our Youth Materials Selector…
203. Close Encounter
I took a reading retreat in Chincoteague. I was a little disappointed to only see ponies from a distance. I admit, I prayed and asked to have a closer encounter.…
202. Concert
I went to an awesome concert last night featuring Mandisa and Danny Gokey, also with performances by Jasmine Murray and Love & the Outcome. Besides being stunningly talented singers, they’ve…
201. Holding Babies
I got to work in the Babies’ classroom this morning at church. There were three workers and three babies, so each of us got to play with and hold one…
198. Four Bonus Months of Newbery Reading!
Yesterday, I read a comment on Heavy Medal blog that when the commenter was on the Newbery committee, they didn’t read many Advance Reader Copies except a few they picked…
196. I Get to Read Books!
What’s so cool about being on the 2019 Newbery committee? Well, in short, I get to read books! Why, I need to read books! I will say no more than…