The Macy's Day Parade Choice Board and Ideas For Bringing It To Life!

               

With the Macy's Day Parade coming up soon on Thanksgiving Day, 

we are also counting down at Van Meter as we plan for a few of our favorite activities around this fun event. 

To start, I put together the Learn about the Macy's Day Parade choice board shown at the top of this post.  It is filled with special places to learn, celebrate and create with the Macy's Day Parade including a read aloud from KidLitTV of Balloons Over Broadway, this years parade lineup including my favorite and new balloon Ada Twist, the Macy's Day Parade site and more. 

You will find the choice board here to share with your students and if you would like to make edits you can make a copy of the choice board here. 

We use this choice board and the virtual tours to get our students ready for lots of wonderful projects using their creativity and the Ozobot robots or toy cars as they collaborate to create floats and routes together. 

You can read about these projects here. 

This year, we are using a few different robotic and technology tools. I will share with you soon! 

I hope you and your students have lots of fun planning your celebrations too!  

I Am Excited To Share Book Creator At Our 6th Annual Future Ready Librarians App Smash Webinar! Join Us, Friends.

 

I am so happy about the Future Ready Librarians 6th Annual App Smash webinar coming up on November 18, 2025 at 5:00pm EST. 

And I am very excited to share Book Creator in the webinar, along with 24 other librarians and educators sharing different digital tools and resources too. 

You can register for the webinar here. 

Everyone who registers will receive the recording and amazing resources too. 

You've Been Book'd With The Food Group Series From Jory John & Pete Oswald...And Activities For Each Too!

To celebrate the newest addition, The Humble Pie, to The Food Group Series from Jory John and Pete Oswald, I've brought all of the books together in this special choice board. 

You will find the choice board here. Just click on the book covers to find each title in Follett Titlewave, and I included the entire list too. 

I also included Book Activities from HarperCollins to download and enjoy. I found these connected to each title in Titlewave too!

Have fun sharing The Humble Pie and the entire series with your readers. They are definitely lots of our favorites!

You can make a copy of this choice board here too.