Join the Town Everyone’s Talking About: December in PebbleTown!

Friends, the December PebbleTown Gazette has arrived—and it’s time to kick off a brand-new month of reading, learning, and winter fun in the funnest town around....PebbleTown! 

PebbleTown is a free, storybook-inspired reading and learning program that motivates students to explore, read, and share what they learn using PebbleGo, PebbleGo Next, or Capstone Interactive eBooks or Capstone Books. 

PebbleTown offers fun incentives and celebrations to keep students excited about reading and discovering new things — all while supporting and complementing what they are already learning in their classroom. 

This special reading program is designed to fit within an educator’s existing instruction — enhancing literacy, research skills, and background knowledge through joyful, curiosity-driven learning.

Here is how it works! 

You can sign up here and then venture through PebbleTown.  

Students track their journey across PebbleGo, earning badges and completing playful prompts that build curiosity and comprehension. 

Each month, you will find the monthly prompt in the Town Hall video in your issue of The Gazette. 

Submit your response to be entered to win 1 or 8 amazing prizes for your reading nook.  

Read your way through the program for exciting Grand Prizes in March, including a pizza party and up to $1000 in gift cards. 

Get started by signing up your classroom here. 

Once signed up, you’ll receive all program communications via email and on the confirmation page.  Be on the look out for an email with the PebbleTown Gazette where you can read all about December in our favorite town. 

You can expect to receive monthly updates and giveaway submission forms by email, and you can also  bookmark the PebbleTown Square page for all resources.

You can watch the December PebbleTown Story Hall here. 

I can't wait to see everyone in PebbleTown.  It's going to be such a fun year of reading and learning with other students, teachers, and school communities around the country. 

And don't forget to share your PebbleTown pride by sharing what your classroom is learning.  Post your class projects or learning moments on your favorite social platform, tag us, and use hashtag #PebbleTown25 to join the fun. 

Big News! 28 New PebbleGo Next Articles Are LIVE This Week, Friends!

 

Bigs news, friends !  There are 28 NEW PebbleGo Next articles live this week. 

The 28 new articles can be found in the Animals, Biographies, and Social Studies PebbleGo Next modules in both English and Spanish.  

This release supports PebbleGo's mission to grow with our classrooms and support standards-based instruction. 

Our teachers and students will be soooo excited for these!  

I am creating a fun choice board to share the new articles and will share the template here on my blog too. 

You can read all about this weeks exciting release and learn more about PebbleGo Next here.

25 Days of Digital Inspiration From 25 Inspiring Librarians and Educators! Follow Along In December, Friends.

 

This week, we are kicking off something fun to wrap up the year—25 Days of Digital Inspiration on Instagram and YouTube! Every day in December, you’ll get 2.5 minutes of fast, purposeful learning featuring one of the amazing apps shared during this year’s annual Future Ready App Smash Webinar.

Get ready to spark your creativity. Shannon McClintock Miller and more than 25 inspiring educators will bring you quick-fire demos, fresh ideas, and powerful digital tools that are transforming libraries and classrooms. Each day’s featured tool comes straight from our webinar lineup and offers real-world applications you can use immediately. Every tool aligns with the Future Ready Librarians® Framework, supporting leadership, innovation, digital citizenship, and meaningful impact.

These daily micro-learning moments are designed to help you discover new tools in just a couple of minutes, find ready-to-use strategies, stay inspired during a busy season, and continue building your digital learning practice.

Featured Apps & Presenters

• The Achievery – Paige Chambers
• Adobe Express – Deborah Zeman
• Adobe Podcast – Nadine Poper
• Beanstack – Katie Capshaw
• Book Creator – Shannon McClintock Miller
• Checkology – Erin Olson
• Canva – Kristina Holzweiss
• Cloud Stop Motion – Kelly Martin
• Clips – Alexandra Cornejo
• The Detective Experience – Gabrielle Mace
• Goblin Tools – Katie Larson
• KaiBots – Rachel Lemansky & Heather Brown
• Kami – Katie McNamara
• Loom – Rain Smith
• News Literacy Project – Melanie LeJeune
• NotebookLM – Joyce Valenza
• Padlet – Debbie Tannenbaum
• Recording Message Phone – Crissi Brandhuber
• Stickity – Rachael Welsh
• Swank K-12 Streaming – Len Bryan
• Symbaloo – Jill Johnson
• Wayground – Amanda Hunt
• We Will Write – Pam Zettervall

Follow along on Instagram and YouTube so you don’t miss your daily dose of ideas and inspiration. Like, share, and comment on the daily posts to help amplify the amazing work of our presenters, spread fresh ideas across the network, and keep the inspiration going all month long. 

Get ready—your 2.5 minutes of learning starts now, friends.