Check Out The Super Fun Monthly Activity Calendars From Our Friends At Epic!

 

I love the Monthly Activity Calendars from our friends at Epic! 

Each month they have these super fun and engaging calendars filled with special ways to celebrate each day of the month.  Every day challenges our readers with ideas on how they use Epic to celebrate that particular day. 

For example, September 22 is the First Day of Fall and it says Celebrate with a book about the season. I know our readers will love finding all kinds of books to read about fall this week. 

You will find the September 2026 Epic calendar here. 

And you can download October, November, and December here too.

I am going to use the Epic Monthly Activity Calendars is a lot of different ways. I will print and share with teachers so they can hang up in their classrooms. I will share with our students in Google Classrooms.  I will hang up in the library. 

I can't wait to share with our students every month! You will find them all here.

And check out a few of my favorite books on Epic in my special Collection too, friends. 

These Books Have A Tonies...Our tonies® Library!

 

I have been thinking a lot about how I am going to store and share the books that go along with our Tonieboxes and Tonie characters. I decided to get a basket and put it by the three Toniebox storage houses that I hung in our library. 

Most of the Tonie characters that we have so far are book characters from these books. 

I got them in Follett Titlewave, 

along with the book sets that go along with the Tonie characters. 

As we put these into our library, I also created stickers for our tonies® and book bundles.  

You can read all about them and get the template for the stickers here. 

As I put our basket together today, I created a few signs in Canva. You will find the template here.

One says, Our tonies® Library! and...

...one says, These books have a tonies®! 

I printed them on card stock, laminated them, and cut them out. 

I taped them to the basket, 

one of each side.  

As I start taking our tonies® into the classrooms this week, I love that I can just take the basket with me too.  

And as our tonies collection grows, I might have to find a special place on the library shelves, but for now this is the perfect solution for our traveling tonies! 

You can find out even more about tonies® here on Follett Content, friends.

What Books Do You Want In Our Library? A New Place For Suggestions for Our Library and Makerspace!

A few weeks ago, I shared the post Let's Hear Your Ideas! A New Place For Your Suggestions For Our Library and Makerspace. 

I had a few students wonder if they could just suggest books, so I thought about it and decided to change it up to...

...What books do you want in our library?

You can find the poster template for the box here in Canva and the....

...suggestion slip here. 

I included the first post before so you can get the links to the suggestion box and all of the details on how I put it together.  

One of my favorite things about being a librarian is talking to our students and teachers about what they love to read and what they would love to see in our library.  Now with our new Makerspace open too, they are giving me all kinds of ideas on what else they would love to see in that space too. 

So today, I made a book and Makerspace suggestion box! 

I found this suggestion box on Amazon here. I love how it has a place to add a sign and slips for the kids to write their suggestions on. 

I really wanted it to be bulldog blue so Eric spray painted it for me.  If you do this, make sure you take the lock out first and put it back in when it is dry.

I made a sign in Canva that matched the exact dimensions of 6.75 x 4.25. You will find the template here.

It matches our new decorations too! 

I made the little slips they can write on in Canva too.  I wanted them to have enough room to write and share.  You will find the template here.

I just copied on white paper, cut them in half, and added them to the front of the suggestion box, along with a couple pencils. 

When the kids and teachers come to the library, they will see it right away.  I can't wait to see what they suggest for our library and Makerspace this year.