February was here and then it was gone! It felt super fast even though it had an extra day this year. We celebrated Black History Month, Spread the Love Week, Donuts with Dad, and Perot Science Night. Check out some of the other events for this month below!
I added more grade levels to our Book Bites lunch book clubs. I had 8 groups on 4 different days. It was a little crazy at times, but we loved reading biographies and about that crazy Classroom 13.
Our counselor even joined us for one of the club meetings for Book Bites.
We had a bookmark contest to celebrate Love Your Library Month. They entries were all so great and promoted reading.
Leading up to MAP testing, we have been reading books that motivate us and show how we can overcome challenges. World Read Aloud Day on February 5th was a great time to read this book about how mistakes can be made into beautiful things.
I got to share what I learned at the American Association of School Librarians conference in Louisville with my fellow librarians at our PD day. I shared about Making Connections for our secondary librarians and about picture book lessons with the elementary librarians.
The Harry Potter template got lots of compliments...thanks Slidesmania!
Even though we had two long days of Mock STAAR testing, I was able to still find time to do a lesson with my novel study group for Digital Learning Day. The students followed along on a paper map of the United States as each student took turns helping to create a class Google MyMaps about the places the characters traveled in our story The Lightning Thief. I cannot wait to get a few Chromebooks for the library so that more of these lessons can happen.
I accepted a position doing a Success Academy on some Saturdays for 3rd graders at a different school to give the some extra help in reading. It has been a great experience to put myself back in the shoes of a classroom teacher for a few hours here and there.
I love that the curriculum for Success Academy includes time for a read aloud. My first pick was a simple one...one of my faves! Of course, we had to finish off the class period with a rock, paper, scissors tournament!
March is definitely traditionally my busiest month and so far it has been super swamped. I was honored to be nominated for our campus Teacher of the Year and I am so proud of my aide for being nominated as well. We love our jobs, even on the crazy days!
