What's round and orange and fun to read about? Pumpkins!!

Fall is the best time to read about pumpkins and here is one of my favorite books.  Click on the yellow dots to find out more about pumpkins:


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Summer... time to read!

Summer is a time for fun and one fun thing I like to do is read.  Don't you?  Check out the links below to find different reading programs that will reward your reading.  Have fun!

Get your Bluebonnets!

The new Texas Bluebonnet Award list for 2017-2018 has been released!  Start reading now so you will be ready to vote next January.

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Do you like... Dr. Seuss? I do!

Our school is celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday all week long February 27-March 3.  It will be as fun as eating Green Eggs and Ham!

Robots!!

I love technology and I love robots!  We will have our second Night at the Library on February 16 and the theme is technology.  Families are welcome to bring their smart phones or tablets and try out some technology like QR codes and one of the NASA augmented reality apps.  Fun, fun, fun!

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It almost wasn't Thanksgiving...

Thank goodness for Sarah Hale.  She showed perseverance by writing to President after President until Abraham Lincoln finally declared a nation day of Thanksgiving to bring our country together.

Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!!

Our school will celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday all week long February 29-March 4.  It will be as fun as eating Green Eggs and Ham!

Summer is coming soon! Are you ready?

Summer will be here before you know it.  Do you have plans?  I hope so!  Be sure to read lots of books and join in as many summer reading programs as you can.  Look here for that information as well as other fun things for you and your family to do.

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Children's Book Week is coming soon... did you vote?

The Children's Book Council celebrates Children's Book Week every spring.  Now, they also have an awards ceremony for books voted as favorites by different groups of children and children's book reader. We like to celebrate reading all year long but especially during Children's Book Week!

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Pumpkin, pumpkin...

I love the fall, don't you?  I love the beautiful colors everywhere and I love apples and pumpkins.  Here is one of my favorite pumpkin books with lots of pumpkin links:





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about it!

Author, author - two authors visit our school!

Two authors visited our school on Friday, February 7.  Jan Peck and David Davis are both Fort Worth authors who have each written several books that our students loved!  We all had a wonderful time helping them retell their stories and learning about the hard work that goes into writing books.

Thanks, Sarah!

Who is Sarah?  Sarah Hale, of course!  Sarah Hale should be thanked for Thanksgiving.  She was not a pilgrim and she was not at the 1621 harvest celebration (later known as the first Thanksgiving) but she was very important in making sure our country celebrates Thanksgiving today.  Read this book and click on the links below to find out more about this woman and Thanksgiving.

Butterfly in the sky!

Now that you are humming the Reading Rainbow song, check out these links about butterflies.  Some classes watched a distance learning program about butterflies and we learned the monarch butterflies migrate through Texas in the fall as they head south to Mexico for the winter.  So look all around for butterflies in the sky!

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Listen up!

As much as I love to read stories with my eyes, I also love to hear stories with my ears.  Some of the best stories are the ones we tell each other!

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Our Constitution and Freedom Week

We observe Constitution Day on September 17 during Freedom Week September 15-19.  Here is a wonderful book that explains the preamble so kids can understand it, too:

 

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Summer, summer, summer time!!

Summer will be here soon and so will lots of chance to read for prizes!  Check out the links below to see some of the ways you can have fun reading this summer.

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Fancy that!

One of my favorite fancy characters is Fancy Nancy.  Our school is planning a Fancy Nancy / Handsome Harry Day on April 26.  We will dress in our Sunday best and practice our best manners all day long!

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Texas, our Texas!

There's a lot to learn about our state's history and a good day to start is on March 2nd, Texas Independence Day.  Here are some good places to start:

ThingLink doesn't work on our Nooks that we use in the library so here are the links:

Barbara Jordan - http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/jordan.html
Early Notable Texans - http://www.lsjunction.com/people/people2.htm
Famous Texans - http://famoustexans.com/
Giants in Texas History - https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/giants/index.html
Joseph Glidden biography - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWglidden.htm
More famous Texans - http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook
Henry Cisneros - http://biography.jrank.org/pages/3051/Cisneros-Henry-1947-San-Antonio-Mayor-Cabinet-Secretary.html
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Love is in the air!

There are lots of gooey sweet books about love to read for Valentine's Day but I don't usually read those.  However, I am up for goofy, silly Valentine books any time.  Here is one of my new favorites:

Links will be added soon.

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A part of all our history...

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis is a Newbery winning historical fiction that tells of a young boy growing up in the Great Depression. This is one of many books that tell part of our history - African American history.

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