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Slice of Life Day 31: One Challenge Down…
I’m so glad I tried a new challenge this year! A lot of my family enjoyed reading the posts and I’ve had more comments on these posts than many of my other posts on my blog. Tomorrow starts the next challenge on my blog. The Blogging from A to Z…
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Slice of Life Challenge
I’ve seen the logo over the past few years, but never took the time to read up on what it was all about. The Slice of Life Challenge started in 2008 as a challenge for fourth grade students to encourage them to write regularly in their notebooks about their own…
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Bout of Books – Round 2
I had a great time participating in Bout of Books in January and with summer coming I want to try and get as much reading done now as I can, so here’s for Round 2 for Bout of Books ~ May 9 – May 15! I’ve got a lot of…
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SLJ's Battle of the Books
The School Library Journal’s (SLJ) Battle of Books pits middle grade books against each other and for each battle there is a judge (and each judge is a children’s author) who gets to choose who will move on in the tournament. My favorite part of this Battle is the way…
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Sunday Storytime Challenge #4
I got a chance to spend last week at two separate conferences which means I spent a lot of time sharing ideas with fellow youth services librarians. I spent Sunday – Wednesday at our state conference – PaLA. I got the chance to present an elementary school age program that…
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Sunday Storytime Challenge #2
I’ve done a couple of wordless picture books in my storytime so to varying degrees of success. I think by far my most effective wordless picture book in storytime was Where’s Walrus? by Stephen Savage. The kids adore helping me and the zookeeper find the escaped walrus from the…
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48 Hour Book Challenge….
starts now! Dinner is done, dishes are drying, I’ve got a glass of wine and I’m sitting in a very comfy chair, I’m ready to start reading! Ill be reading from7:45pm on Friday to 7:45pm on Sunday! I’ll be posting quick reviews through out the weekend with longer reviews to…
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48 Hour Book Challenge
Last year was the first time I heard about the 48 Hour Book Challenge and I haven’t had the chance to participate in it yet. My goal is that next year, I’ll set aside my weekend to try this out. The basic gist is that you said aside as much…
