These posts cover library activities, such as library lessons, library games, or special library events. We might have library related Google Slides, BOOM Card or PowerPoint activities. Special events such as Read Across America or guest authors might also be considered library activities.
Do you use task cards with your students? Are they getting bored? How about task cards with a twist? After solving math problems on these task cards, students can share the fun facts that are included. The first set contains…
Will you read it in a box? Will you read it with a fox? Will you read it here and there? Will you read it anywhere? If you recognize these (adapted) lines, you are a probably a fan of Dr….
Many people teach Black History Month in the same way every year: they read about Martin Luther King, Jr. and other famous African-American civil rights leaders, inventors, statesmen, athletes, and artists. There is nothing wrong with that approach, but the…
How do you review sight words? Flash cards? Boring! Worksheets? Boring! Writing them five times? Boring! Are you looking for fun ways to teach sight words to students? How about turning it into a game? My students would study anything…
Did you vote? No, not in the mid-term elections! For the PBS Great American Read. I have been wearing my campaign button on my handbag for months, ever since I got it at the New York Library Association (NYLA) conference….
“Shh. We’re in the library! You need to be quiet!” Ever hear that line? My room is probably one of the noisiest in the the school. We laugh and groan at stories, sometimes chant (or SHOUT) the repetitive story lines,…
Do you know those cartoons where one of the characters drops a bag of marbles on the floor, and everyone slips and slides and falls down? Well, don’t add marble runs to your Library Maker Space or school STEM lab…