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April 15, 2018 by: trappedlib

Inspire Young Activists With These 7 Great Earth Day Books

Inspire Young Activists With These 7 Great Earth Day Books

Earth Day is a day to take action.  Children in schools across the country will be setting up recycling stations and picking up garbage.  They’ll be making posters and remembering to turn off the lights when they leave a room.  Here are seven books to motivate your elementary school learners and inspire them to make a difference for the planet that we love! I borrowed

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April 12, 2018 by: trappedlib

Have a Ball with Elephant and Piggie Story Time!

Have a Ball with Elephant and Piggie Story Time!

Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie series for early readers is popular with young children for a reason.  They are fun, exciting, surprising, and full of genuine emotions!  Although the final book in the series was just published in 2016, these engaging stories have already become a classic staple in elementary school libraries and kindergarten and first grade classrooms across the country!  At my school, older

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March 30, 2018 by: trappedlib

Motivate Your School Community with Screen Free Week

Motivate Your School Community with Screen Free Week

We’ve been celebrating “Screen-Free Week” (formerly known as “TV Turnoff Week”) at my school for over 10 years.  For this week we challenge the students to consider trying to go the whole week without using a screen for entertainment.  Successful students fill out a contract and recording sheet, have it signed by an adult, and get 10 tickets to enter into raffles for fun screen-free

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October 8, 2017 by: trappedlib

5 Tips for a Fun Book Tasting

5 Tips for a Fun Book Tasting

As school librarians, our biggest mission is to connect kids with books they will love.  A Book Tasting Event can give your students the opportunity to sample library books that they might not otherwise consider in a fun, festive environment.  You can have a book tasting at any time of year:  it’s fun at the beginning of the school year, anytime you may have a

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