Monthly Archive for April, 2009

And the winner is….. (plus a special surprise for you!)

Published on April 21, 2009 in Authors and Missouri Readers Awards. 9 Comments

Greetings all of you library lovers! As you know, I’ve been at the Missouri school library conference the last few days with Mrs. Pingleton and Mrs. Pock, the other librarians on our campus. I learned lots of new things and even did two presentations to share some of my ideas with other librarians. Two very [...]

I get to see Rick Riordan!

Published on April 17, 2009 in Just for fun and Missouri Readers Awards. 10 Comments

Hey Percy Jackson fans! Have I got news for you. Next Monday I will be at the Missouri school librarians conference, and guess who I get to see in person – you got it – Rick Riordan, the author of the Lightning Thief! He won the Mark Twain award last year will be accepting the [...]

Bubble Homes and Fish Farts – Show off your poetry!

Published on April 8, 2009 in Poetry. 38 Comments

This week in library we read the book Bubble Homes and Fish Farts, and we learned about several animals that use bubbles in very unique ways. We also talked about how April is National Poetry Month, and I challenged you with the task of writing an acrostic poem about one of the animals in the [...]