March was a short month due to Spring Break and testing, but it is also one of our busiest months in the library. I keep forgetting to take pictures of my displays, but we celebrated Women's History Month and all things green. Check out the exciting recap of what I did remember to take pictures of!
Besides our spring book fair, we also celebrated reading by dressing up each day to match a different book. There was also a genre contest each day.
March 4th was our annual reading celebration day. The kindergartners Skyped with author JoAnn Sky. She is the author of a great book called Santa's Dog. The kids loved hearing the story and what inspired her to write it. Even Coach T asked her a question!
Second grade got to hear Mrs. Martinez from the Digital Learning Team read My Technology Tail and discuss digital citizenship. It was a great experience for the students!
Fourth grade did a Skype call with author Mike Graf. He discussed his nonfiction books and took students on a photographic tour of national parks. It was very informative and cool!
First graders loved their Skype with author Rebecca J. Gomez. They had a lot of questions and comments about Moose from the story!
Our new SRO Officer Price stopped by to read a nonfiction book about police to our third graders. We appreciate him stopping by and showing us the tools that police use.
Friday, March 8th was our annual storybook character parade. Prek had a blast dressing up!
My team of fishes from One Fish Two Fish! We had two black fishes :)
Look at all of these amazing storybook characters!
I earned my Masters degree from #GISDchat University! It's my second Masters, but it still meant a lot...trying to get that first doctorate before school ends!
The 5th grade STAAR tests are rapidly approaching so I have been working with students on reading about science topics using our balanced literacy books. They are amazing! We also incorporated AVID by doing a one-pager about electricity.
I spent 6 weeks working on the course to become a Virtual Digital Leader for GISD. It was a really great course that I mined a lot of info from to share with our staff and students for next year.
The month ended by getting this awesome grant from the Garland Education Foundation! I am so excited because we are going to purchase a novel for the whole school to read together and do activities with throughout next school year. I had hoped to get it last semester, but I am glad I tried again. We will be all set for August!
April starts today and that's no April Fools joke! I cannot wait to see what happens in the library as the year winds down.:)
