Mar
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2016 Category Archives: Fun stuff
Feb
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2016 Valentiny Contest 2016
Last October, I entered children’s author and blogger Susanna Leonard Hill’s popular “Halloweensie” contest. She has decided to keep the fun going for Valentine’s Day with the first ever “Valentiny” contest. The rules: write a Valentine’s story for children that is 214 words or less and includes someone who is grumpy. Here is my entry: […]
Jan
22
2016 Bread, Milk, Toilet Paper and…Library Books!
An EPIC snow storm is upon us here in Virginia and there’s a mad scramble for all the essentials. Photos have been shared on the web of grocery store shelves that are wiped clean. People are going crazy! The kids and I took a trip to our public […]
Jan
17
2016 My Own Library Shelf!
How do you know you check-out A LOT of library books? When you go to pick-up your reserved books and you can’t find them under the designated “W” section for Whitehouse so you have to ask the librarian where your books are and she says when you have too many books… they put them on […]
Jan
1
2016 What are Your Reading Resolutions?
Well, another year is in the books! Anyone know why we say that? There must be an interesting story behind it. Hmmm…mental note to look into it for a future post. 2016 is just hours old, which brings up the yearly question: What are your New Year’s Resolutions? Do you have the standard “eat less” and […]
Dec
25
2015 Santa’s Birthday Gift
Last night at Christmas Eve mass, our priest did a magical thing: he read a picture book as part of his homily! With his gentle voice reciting the beautiful rhyming text, both children and adults in the congregation were hanging on his every word. The book Santa’s Birthday Gift by Sherrill S. Cannon, tells the […]
Dec
24
2015 The Christmas Book Flood – An Iceland Tradition
Dec
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2015 The Very Bad Picture Book
Love this New York Times cartoon by Grant Snider!
Nov
26
2015 Happy Thanksgiving!
Today I am thankful for time with family, delicious food and a few days off of work to get caught up on writing and reading! Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov
16
2015 Scholastic Book Talk – Battle Bugs: The Lizard Wars
It’s time for another Scholastic Book Talk! The designated books in my school’s library will get a QR code attached to them. When the code is scanned by a student using a smartphone, ipad, etc., the book talk video will pop-up on their screen and give them a summary of the book. We now have […]
