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.   

Creating Monthly Novel Effect Posters In Canva For Our Special Read Aloud Library! Find The Template For Our May Poster Here, Friends!

One of the best additions to our library and school over the past few years has been Novel Effect. 

In fact, we started a Novel Effect library. This has offered our teachers such a wonderful way to bring stories to life with special and important books. You can read about how we created our Novel Effect Library here. 

Last year, we started something new to go along with our growing Novel Effect Library. 

Each month, we will bring together several Novel Effect books around special topics, events and celebrations.  This month, we focused on special holidays, events, snow and winter, and the Novel Effect books that have these topics from our library. 

Once we have our list together for the month, 

I go to Canva and create a monthly flyer for our Novel Effect books using the book covers, a Novel Effect image from their site and fun text. 

I create the collage of the book covers in PicMonkey.  You can edit a copy of this template here. 

You will find the Novel Effect images under the Additional Learning Resources on the Novel Effect site here.

And you can find the Canva template for this poster I created here where you can make a copy to use too. 

I printed the Novel Effect Books posters and passed them out to all of the teachers so they can post in their classrooms and keep track of all of the amazing read alouds to pick from each month.  

I love our Novel Effect Library and can't wait for everyone to read even more throughout the year. 

Don't miss all of the  new May book activities found on the Novel Effect site here, friends.