Join Me For The NEW Webinar, 3 Great Way To Inspire A Love Of Reading Within Children! You Can Register Here Today, Friends.

 

I would love to invite you to join me and Literati Book Fairs for the NEW webinar, 3 Great Ways To Inspire A Love Of Reading Within Children.  

The webinar is on Monday, May 6 at 4pm CST.  

You will leave with specific ideas for the library, classroom, and even to share with families at home....and it will be perfect for summer reading. 

There will be a live Q & A following the presentation, so have your questions ready. 

You can register for the webinar here.

We hope you can join us, friends.  If you can't attend live, sign up today and we'll send you a link to the recording to watch at your convenience. 

Join Us For This NEW Future Ready Librarian Webinar On May 2.... Supercharging Summer Reading: Connecting with Your Community and Beyond!

               

Coming up next week, our Beyond the Shelf: Navigating Innovation and Collaboration as Future Ready Librarians webinar comes at a perfect time as we plan and share our summer reading programs at the end of the school year.  

On May 2, 2024 at 5:00-6:00pm EST, three amazing teacher librarians from Brazosport ISD in Texas, Liz Fambrough, Brandye Roland, and Bronwyn Rumsey, will share lots of ways to supercharge summer reading as we connect with our communities and beyond.  

We will discuss:

• Ways to engage families and caregivers in summer learning initiatives I
• How to collaborate with local organizations for enriching summer learning and reading opportunities 
• How to strengthen relationships with public libraries and educational institutes for summer reading programs. 

You can register for this FREE webinar here.  And don't worry if you can't attend live. The recording and resources will be sent out to everyone who registers. 

We hope to see you there, friends. 

Turn The May 2024 PebbleGo & PebbleGo Next Monthly Holiday Calendar Into An Interactive Research Choice Board For Your Students & Teachers!

Our friends at Capstone create these special PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Holiday Calendars each month. 

In this post, I share more about the PebbleGo Monthly Calendars. 

I love making paper copies of these to share with our teachers and kids. 

They hang them up in their classrooms and hang them in our library too. I also share them online through social media and as an image in Google Classroom or Seesaw. 

The teachers even use the PebbleGo Calendars for mini research opportunities throughout each week. The students use PebbleGo Create to share what they learn throughout the month with the calendars. 

Here is the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next May 2024 Holidays Calendar. 

Last year, when I was sharing the calendars with teachers and students, I thought....Hey, this would be really fun in a choice board! 

So, I opened up a Google Slide, uploaded the PebbleGo May 2024 Holidays Calendar, and added a little chalk board with text over the top.  

Then I went through the calendar and found every special day in PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next.  

For example, Frog Jumping Day is on May 14. 

I went to PebbleGo and found the article about Frogs. I grabbed the link, as shown in the image above. 

I took that link and added a linked text box around each special date. 

Now, when the kids click on a holiday, it will take them directly to that PebbleGo article.  

If you want to use the template to create your own, you will find the Google Slide here to make a copy and add links to the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next articles. 

And to make it a choice board, just Publish to the web, as shown in this image above. 

You will share that Published Link with your students.  

I love sharing these interactive PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next Holiday Calendars with our students and teachers. They love learning all about these special days that are highlighted each month too.

I am excited to have the May 2024 PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next ready to go for the month.I hope you will find ways to use it with your students and teachers this month too.