Crayola Creativity Week 2025 Is Going To Be AMAZING With Celebrity Guests and Daily Themes! Sign Up Today, Friends.

 

We love celebrating Crayola Creativity Week every year. It's such a wonderful week to come together as we celebrate the creativity in everyone.  Crayola Creativity Week is right around the corner on January 27-February 2, 2025.

As shared on the Crayola site, 

Kids are naturally curious. They ask why and how? They imagine. They create. When kids create, they solve problems and think up new solutions. Young creatives need to be nurtured, so that their originality shines. So their ideas can take shape and become real. When we celebrate their innate creative mindsets, children view the world with wonder. They embrace innovative thinking. They create possibilities. Join Crayola Creativity Week, and help children create the future.

This year they have put together full line-up of Crayola Creativity Week celebrity guests and daily themes, which will make this week even more special to our students and school community. 

The registration is now open for Crayola Creativity Week 2025. 

You can sign up now for FREE access to creative learning videos, downloadables, and daily giveaways at Crayola.com/CreativityWeek. 

Celebrate Media Literacy Week With The Cyber Sleuths Series From Capstone & ISTE!

              

This week we celebrate Media Literacy Week. This is an annual event to raise awareness and celebrate media and information literacy for all students and communities. 

As we celebrate this special week, I have the perfect series for you to highlight and share. 

It's the Cyber Sleuths series, a new mystery series, written by Natasha Deen and illustrated by Mariano Epelbaum and published by Capstone and ISTE, that promote critical thinking and digital citizenship skills. It's the series that I can't wait to bring to our library and classroom this fall.  

As a librarian and teacher, I love that each book ties into real-life uses of technology and media literacy skills, such as online research, social media, and using digital tools. It will give our students a great place to learn and think about various media literacy skills, while also giving us a place to tie in important conversations and learning activities. 

And one of the best parts is that at the back of the book students will find the Cyber Sleuths Code which is connected to the seven ISTE Student Standards. The Cyber Sleuths are the perfect way to prepare and teach our students how to navigate the digital world they are part of every day, while reading exciting stories they love, too!

Capstone also shares this online, 

Meet the Cyber Sleuths, a worldwide, online network of tech-savvy kids wired-in and ready to take on the internet’s worst scams, fakes, and bad actors. With high-tech tools and big-time data, they combat misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation circulating in their communities. Created in partnership with ISTE, this action-packed chapter book series is sure to entertain while at the same time equipping readers with critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to identify credibility in the information they consume.

Capstone is excited to partner with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to publish a special collection of children’s books promoting digital citizenship awareness and the positive and creative use of technology and digital tools. The collaboration connects our engaging storytelling with ISTE's research-based best practices on technology use in schools, empowering educators to have positive conversations around using technology to create and problem solve. Explore our growing collection of children's books!

In the Cyber Sleuths Educator's Guide, you will find Cyber Sleuths Code and amazing....

...discussion questions, extension activities and more for each of the four titles. 

You can click here to go to this interactive choice board which includes a preview of The Super Berries Scam, the educators guide, poster, and crossworld puzzle.  And the purple button at the bottom will take you to the Cyper Sleuths series at capstonepub.com 

The Capstone and ISTE partnership also include my book, Sonia's Digital World, and Exploring AI.  You will find all of these on the Capstone and ISTE partnership page here. 

Fundraise For Your Library and School This Holiday Season With The NEW Literati Winter Gift Wonderland Holiday Catalog!

 

We just hosted a Literati Book Fair in our school library.  It was such an amazing event filled with wonderful books for all readers. 

Well, guess what?  Our friends at Literati have created something NEW that will bring books and other educational products to our students and families. It's the Literati Winter Gift Wonderland holiday catalog that kicks off the launch of their new store. 

Bookmoto, Bennie, and his friends, share their favorite products and books throughout the adorable catalog. 

 It is filled with books, like Bennie's Favorite Books, 

...and the best educational gifts from their new marketplace partners which include toys, science kits, art supplies and more. 

With the catalog, schools can fundraise year round and 10-20% goes back to your school!  How cool is that! 

It's easy to use and order.  Scan the QR code or visit literati.com/holiday.  All purchases benefit your school...you just connect at checkout to your school.  Orders ship directly to their homes. 

I can't wait to share the Literati Winter Gift Wonderland holiday catalog with our families.  I made out my Wish List and will be asking for several special things from the new Literati store too. 

You can visit here, friends.