Summertime

Wow! Finally Summer - I have been enjoying these first few days of summer - are you? I hope you find a little (or alot!) of time to read this summer. I will continue to blog about the books I am reading- please stop by and feel free leave comments. :)

Dr. Seuss

Today was one of my favorite days of the year ... Ms. Basic and Mr. Witz's 3/4 class went over to East school to help celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday by reading Dr. Seuss books aloud to the East school students.

I also had a great time participating in East School's assembly this afternoon as Thing 2 from The Cat in the Hat. :) Ms. Soule, the librarian at East, was Thing 1.

What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book? I think mine is Green Eggs and Ham. :)

reading and more...

I had a few students suggest that it might be neat to share what I am currently reading. So I did just that. :) I added two sections on the right hand side of this blog - "currently reading" and "currently listening to" (since I usually am listening to a book in the car). I will do my best to keep it updated and current.
I also had a few students share that they are using a tool to help keep track of books read and also connect with friends to share good titles. The website they are using is called Goodreads. This is very similar to the tool that I use called LibraryThing. The books displayed on the right hand column of this blog are books that I have added in LibraryThing. I think it is neat that there are websites available that can help you find great books that might be interesting to read! :)

Welcome back!

Welcome back! I was exciting for school to begin ... although coming to work each day does leave me less time to read. ;) Please stop by this blog often ... I mostly use it to talk about new books that I am reading, but I also use this blog to share about things that are going on in the LMC.

what a conference!

Last week I was very lucky to attend the NECC (National Educational Computing Conference). It was held in San Antonio, TX - which was a city I had not visited before. Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Schuetz, Mrs. Carney, and Mr. Beese also were at the conference ... it was fun for us to learn together.

The theme of the conference was: convene connect transform

It was so interesting to convene (meet) with other teachers from around the country and learn about how technology can be used in our classrooms. It was exciting to connect with other teachers who had similar interests and gave me ideas to use at our school. The conference gave me much to think about and tranformed my thinking of technology in many ways.
I wanted to share about this conference with you because teachers also like to learn... and it is really neat to have Ah-ha! moments ... just like you do when you learn something exciting in the classroom! :)

author visit

It was so exciting to have Jennifer Smith visit on Friday ... in fact, it was so exciting that I forgot to take pictures. :) She shared about how she became a writer and how writing IS a process (I think we have heard that before!). She ended her visit by reading the first chapter of the book and then answering a few questions.

author visit

I am very excited that Jennifer Smith, the author of The Comeback Season, will be visiting our school next Friday, April 18th. I really enjoyed her book and it is always exciting to meet the author. :)

You can order a copy of the book (she will be signing them), but all orders must be placed by this Friday.

Stop by the LMC if you have any questions!

Rebecca Caudill 2008 winner

This was just announced! The winner of the 2008 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award is: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick. It is a great book. :)

Snow!

Wow! By the time I got home today, I could barely drive into my driveway. :) I shoveled the driveway (heavy snow), read my book (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), and then played outside with Annie the dog. She wanted me to throw her ball over and over and over again! She loved the snow. I have included a picture of Annie - this is her "please throw the ball NOW" look. :)

What did you do today with all the snow? Cast your vote in the poll!

Happy New Year

I can't believe the winter break is almost over ... it just seemed to fly by. My break consisted of: lots of reading, lots of knitting, and lots of playing with Annie the dog outside. :)

What did you do over break? Comment on this post and/or cast your vote in the poll located in the right hand column of the blog. :)

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Twilight movie

I feel like I am behind ... I had no idea that they had started to cast for the Twilight movie already! :) Some students that were visiting the LMC during lunch this week shared the excited news with me.

You can read all about it at Stephenie Meyer's website.

Welcome!

Welcome to another school year! I read LOTS of books this summer (as you can probably tell if you glance through this blog). With school starting, my book reading time lessens, so if you don't see quite as many books being read...that is why. :)

I hope this use this blog this year to:
* talk about books!
* random, fun stuff
* share news and other information from the LMC

thanks for stopping by...and I hope you continue to visit this blog throughout the school year. :)

busy, busy ...

I have been busy getting ready for school ... and when I am busy I don't have as much time to read. :) Also, almost all the books I read are young adult books, but in the summer I sometimes read books besides young adult books. Right now I am in the middle of a really good high school appropriate book - but it is over 800 pages long! :)

Harry Potter ...

So I was waiting for the mailman when he delivered my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from Amazon on Saturday morning. :) I am on Chapter 10 right now...I decided that I wasn't going to read it all at once, I wanted to just take time to enjoy this last novel. But I am so tempted to just peek at the last chapter. :) But I won't do that. I will post when I am finished reading it. :)

I also saw the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie on Saturday afternoon. I thought it was pretty good!

So all in all - it has been a Harry Potter weekend for me. :)

iPhone

***I debated about sharing this on this blog... but I couldn't resist! So I am taking a short pause from talking about books ... to share with you what I got a week ago :) ***

The thing I love the most - I can go to a bookstore, see a book I like, go on my public library website on the iPhone and then reserve that book. :) fun stuff!

Washington, DC

I am in Washington, DC right now attending the American Library Association's annual conference. It is fun to be around other librarians. :) This morning was very exciting because I visited the exhibits ... where I was able to pick up several advance reader copies of books by some of our favorite authors. I can't wait to start reading them. :)