Dear Teachers, For all the acronyms you deal with on a daily basis… For all the hours you put in on Pinterest searching for that perfect anchor chart… For all the early mornings and late nights grading and preparing for your students… For all the parent phone calls and conferences you’ve worded just right… For […]
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Book Review: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Why I picked it up: The title. That’s all there is to it. This title called out to me like the aroma of freshly baked cookies – I HAD to have it. I love the lilting melody of the words in this title, and as a librarian, the idea of flying books was intriguing. Somewhere […]
Book Review: The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander
** Contact us if you would like to have one of our engaging mentor text sessions come to your campus! ** Why I Picked It Up: I have been on the hunt for a “non-girlie” book in verse. It seemed like a futile task until I came upon The Crossover. From the cover, it was obviously […]
Book Review: Sparky! by Jenny Offill & Chris Appelhans
I picked it up I was casually browsing through the New York Best Sellers list of books and chuckled out loud at the cover of this book. Normally, I’m not drawn to soft watercolor pictures, but this one caught my eye. It is simple, but so very clever. There is a brownish-black sloth who seems […]
App Smash: Vocabulary
Today’s app smash recipe is a variation on vocabulary. There are LOTS of different ways to do it, but this is one recipe I particularly like. As with any recipe, you can switch out ingredients depending on what you have and what you like. These recipes aren’t meant to be an extensive how-to manual for […]
App-Smashing
App smashing is a fancy term for something that many of you may already have been doing, but didn’t know it had a name. If you’ve ever taken a picture of something and used that picture to create something in another app, you’ve “app smashed” on a very basic level. Rarely, even with the […]
