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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…