Mock Newbery Results

It's (un)official! FWC has predicted what will win the Newbery Award in 2014. 

 Here's a list of our predicted possibles.

Drumroll Please!!

Here are the results from our Newbery Book Club

Winner: Navigating Early

Honors: The Real Boy

               Jinx

Here's the breakdown of the votes

So proud of the students (and teachers) who participated in our book club these past few months. They are READING ROCKSTARS!

Look What I Made!

It's getting to be that time of year when the new is wearing off and the excitement is dwindling. My kiddos were super pumped about our Quest for the Crown books and for the Bluebonnet books at the beginning of the year. Especially my third graders. They've been waiting forever to be old enough to participate and now they've been chomping at the bit.


I wanted to motivate my kids again to pick up our Bluebonnet books and remind them about voting in January. I put together a book talk about it and was looking for a book trailer for each of the books. I came up short... I'm sure all teachers and librarians have had the same problem. You want to get your kids excited about a book, but there is no great book trailer. So, I decided to tackle the problem myself.

My first book trailer is for the book Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry.


Here is my bluebonnet book talk for 4th and 5th grade. It includes the Walls Within Walls trailer. You're welcome to use it and change it in anyway.

The next trailer I undertake is going to be Barnum's Bones. I'll keep you posted.

Book Wish List

I bet every other librarian has already done this, but I have a clipboard hanging by my desk. On it is our library wish list. This way teachers & students can write the titles of books that they want that we don't have. I even add to it so that I can keep track of cool books I find. Then when I'm ready to order I can just grab this list and I'll know what I need!

I got the title border from The 3am Teacher who is fabulous! I want her to design my life!

Howdy folks,

I've been thinking about and preparing for this post for a while, but never could find the time to sit down and do it! I know you know feel my pain!

Some things I'm excited about:

Library Star Stickers

I made this page and I print it on round Avery labels. They are the ones that go with the template 22807. I am attaching the PDF mostly because it took a lot of tweaking to get them just right and if they were changed at all I bet they'd print all wrong again. (And you'd waste a page or two of labels like I did!) If you want the word document it's here. 

Here is the *final product of my Hollywood theme. 

*It's never actually final. My high school helper is still adding windows to the buildings. We'll find something else to do when that's done! 

There's more to come and I'll find some time to document it all... but not today!! 

Happy Tuesday!