Blessed to Teach and Read

I took a full school year off from this blog, because it finally happened - I was taken out of the full-day, fixed specials schedule last year and scaled back to just 5th grade specials, every other day, every other 6 weeks!  My media specialist dreams came true! 😍  The joy of actually collaborating with teachers to provide lessons that were authentic, engaging, and timely for our students was phenomenal!  I was able to implement ideas as I discovered them, like How to Catch STEAM Week  for 1st and 4th grade classes and Very Hungry Caterpillar Day for kindergarten!   I had time to start reorganizing our picture book section to make it more user-friendly for students and to promote different series.  I was able to see all of our K-2 students  every week   for a read aloud, book checkout and activities!  Our library could accommodate teachers who wanted to use the space to read to their students or have class in a room that wasn't the...