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...

Oh my goodness!  I found a draft of a blog post from back when I got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.  I was so excited and relieved to receive it!  I was proudly, fully vaccinated as of mid-March.  In the original draft, started a summary run-down of all the lessons I had been doing with students, but only managed to get through kindergarten and first grade.  To the draft, I added on what I did with students for the rest of spring 2021.   I do have to say, I am so proud of all of teachers everywhere for our efforts, our love, our devotion, and our perseverance in the face of truly difficult times this school year.  We made it to the end of a year to be proud of, building relationships, teaching students, and growing as professionals! Without further ado, here are my lessons: Kindergarten:   We made puppets of Kevin Henkes' characters from Egg,  after reading the book together and learning about how he uses his typewriter, his S...