March is always one of the busiest and fastest months of the year in our library! We have spring book fair, Read Across America Week, preparing for STAAR and of course Spring Break. I was finally able to change out the winter displays to spring ones, but of course I was too busy to take a picture and now our displays are Poetry for April so I will try to take a picture for next month.
On March 3rd, I attended the second #edcampgarland at the new GRCTC. It was a great day and I really enjoyed getting to see the new facility. Most of the people I interacted with throughout the day were from other districts and they kept admiring the building. I got to attend a session facilitated by a teacher friend from Plano about Google Tools, learn about reading stations, discuss school safety, and I facilitated a session about Google extensions.
I won a document camera!
Group picture of the peeps from Garland that gave up their Saturday morning to learn and grow.
I did not take any pictures of the book fair because it was insanely busy the whole week, but you can see it in the background of these pictures. We had guest readers for grades 1-3 on Monday, March 5th. Our guest author for grades 3-5 was ill so we will try to reschedule. Our first one was our wonderful library coordinator Richelle O'Neil who read to kindergarten with her friend Patsy Swine.
Leslie Sans, President of Dallas Pets Alive, came to read to 1st grade and teach them about how to interact with dogs. We even got to meet a rescue dog named Princess! Update: she got adopted by a great family!
2nd grade was treated to a visit by Lady Liberty all the way from New York. They had great, thought-provoking questions for her!
We had a quote of the day contest and dress up theme days!
Our Read Across America week ended with a great storybook parade.
Kindergarten team dressed up as Cat in the Hat.
A black crayon and a grouchy ladybug!
Our fabulous art teacher Mrs. Krecklow donated four copies of this book from our book fair wish list. Each kindergarten class got one!
I finished the crazy month by getting a Garland Education Foundation grant for stationary bikes for the library! I am excited to get these for our library program.
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