It's Here, Friends...Our December Choice Boards!

                  

It's here, friends!  Our December Choice Board where reading, learning, making, coding, technology and music can take you on adventures all month long. 

This month, the choice board is filled with so many new and exciting things!  I can't wait to share it with our students, teachers and families, and all of you. 

You will find Our December Choice Board here to make a copy to use with your students and school community.  This is the published link to share with your students. 

With the monthly choice board, I do include other choice boards and special holidays and celebrations. 

On Our December Choice Board, you will find Our Holiday Choice Boards Collection. You will find the links to this in this post. 

You will also find the 12 Days of Making With Capstone Interactive choice board filled with eBooks and activities around the different making topics.  You will find the links to this one in this post. 

With Hour of Code coming up on December 6, I included several great activities and...

...the Elementary Coding Choice Boards found here. 

There is also Our Virtual Makerspace found here and...

... the Let's Take A Trip Around The World Buncee found here. 

I create most of my choice boards in Google Slides and Buncee. With each choice board in Google Slides, I share this with our students and teachers by publishing it to the web. 

In the image above, you can see how to do this by clicking on Share and Publish to the Web. 

The Publish to the Web window pops up that will direct you to publish to the web. It will give you a link that you will copy to share with students and teachers through Google Classroom, Seesaw and any other place you want to share this like social media and through QR codes. 

You will find Our December Choice Board here to make a copy to use with your students and school community.  This is the published link to share with your students. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or need help sharing and creating choice boards.  

I hope the monthly and special choice boards will give you and your students special opportunities for reading, learning, creating, collaborating and having fun all year long. 

Check Out The 2023 Spring Book Preview From Our Friends At Capstone!

One of my favorite thing about being a reader and teacher librarian is learning about and reading upcoming books. 

Last week, our friends at Capstone shared the 2023 Spring Book Preview and I couldn't be more excited to see all of these upcoming titles! 

As Capstone shared on the site, 

Dive into reading some of the books we’re most excited about for spring! From the inspiring true story of Yoshi, a loggerhead turtle who journeyed more than 22,000 miles to find her home, in Yoshi’s Big Swim to the launch of the early chapter book series Liam Kingbird's Kingdom, one of very few early readers on the market with an Indigenous main character, Capstone has your readers’ next favorite book. 

Take a sneak peek at highlights of Capstone’s Spring 2023 titles before they hit the shelves.

You can get your sneak peek here, friends. 

And don't miss all of the wonderful resources Capstone has created for these upcoming books. 

You will find the Capstone 2023 Spring Library Catalog here. 

I will be sharing all of them in the next post. 

We Can't Wait To Hear Katherine Applegate Read Odder During This Special Storyvoice LIVE Event!

 

One of my favorite new books from 2022 is Odder by Katherine Applegate.  

I read this aloud to my family at home one weekend and then brought it to school to share throughout our elementary as a read aloud. Our students and teachers are loving Odder too. 

This week, on December 2 at 1:00pm EST, Katherine will be reading from Odder in a very special Storyvoice Live event. 

As shared online, 

After an unexpected run-in with a shark, Odder the otter is brought to an aquarium to heal—

where her life takes even more unexpected turns.…This novel in verse is by the author of

The One and Only Ivan.

Can’t make Katherine’s live show? A recording will be posted the following school day on

Storyvoice and will remain available for 24 hours.

You will find the event here, friends.

You will find this choice board that we used with Odder here. Feel free to use it with your students as you get ready for the read aloud with Katherine too.