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Welcome to another mid week posting where I try to introduce a  free resource that will assist you in the 21st Century classroom. This week I will highlight a tool that I believe will assist students in online research, save money in the paper budget, and contribute to the needed green movement. It is a valuable resource that every school ...

My awesome Mom is in town visiting. She leaves today though. I think I'm going to cry. There is something so comforting about having your mom around, isn't there? Anyhow, we wanted to get out and do something today, so we took Isaac to the local Toddler Storytime together. I must confess, I haven't been to storytime with Isaac in months! Life ...

A while back I wrote a post describing, and commenting on, a specific library story time I attended with my son. I received a great comment today on that post and wanted to use this post to respond to it. I'm hoping the commenter, Leslie, doesn't mind me sharing her comment in this post. Hi! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on story time. I am a ...

Photo by Flickrized The following is a guest article from Karen Schweitzer of About. com. 20 Places to Find Free Children's Books Online The local public library isn’t the only place to find free books for kids. There are many different sites online that offer free children's books to read or listen to. Here are 20 places to read, create, and ...

Another great idea came from this blogger. To help first graders get in the reading mode, she is taking photocopies of the covers of all the books she reads to them as a group (and has multiple copies of each book in the class library) and hanging the pictures up so that the kids can identify which book it was that they remember and want to try to ...

This post is more an asking post, than a telling post... I was at the library this week, shopping the shelves for some potential books for Literacy Launchpad lessons. This is not my usual method. I usually have a list I'm working from of specific books I'm on the hunt for; books that I have read reviews about, or that have been recommended by a ...

Yep, that’s right my local library in Waipawa, Central Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, may be closing. Times are economically hard I know but I would hate to see it go. Libraries are central hubs for... [More...]

Tagged along with my sister this week to a baby and toddler story hour at her awesome, local library. Pre-registration was required for the storytime, but it's free, and so the librarian leading the story hour let me crash this one time. How nice! Thank you, nice librarian lady! Felt bad though, because there ended up being more people there than ...

A large, spacious room... Chatty moms seated in a group... A stray dad here and there... Strollers and diaper bags parked along the wall... About a dozen little ones toddling about... Another dozen stationary babies cooing next to their parent(s)... And at the front of the room? ... A soft-spoken librarian with an array of books, an easel, a CD ...

If you're at home with your kids during the day (or even if it's just on the weekends), and you're anything like me, you probably don't like having the T.V. on much, if at all. My sister and I have frequently discussed the dilemma of this, because often the T.V. is the closest thing to adult contact we get during the long, lonely weekdays. ...