MORE 'MIDDLE-GRADE-MONDAY' POSTS
We’re trying a school wide reading challenge for the first time this year. It’s a 40 book challenge, and I was able to get a page in the student agenda for it (so the students can hopefully keep up with it for the entire year.) I’m both excited and nervous for this. I have no […]
Today was the first day of school for my students (weird calendar, we start about a month early.) For middle schoolers, every year is a new beginning – new teachers, new classrooms, new challenges, new opportunities. They need to see this reflected in the literature they read. They need to know it’s not just them […]
My students come back to school a week from today! Yes, we’re on a weird schedule. For those of you unfamiliar with school employees schedules, we usually have 5 to 7 pre-service work days before the students come back. I spent the first two absorbed with technology tasks – signing out laptops, requesting network accounts, […]
I’m not sure what I expected to find crammed into my mailbox after a week away, other than bills and credit card offers, but it certainly wasn’t these! So excited! Of course, I should have expected Breakfast on Mars, but I’d forgotten that I won it in a Twitter contest. Twitter is an excellent resource […]
I’m on my way up north to spend my annual week hanging out with this guy: Yes, he’s enormous, but technically still a middle grader. He’s just on the cusp, though, as he will be entering 7th grade this August. I’m excited to see what he’s into this year. For a look at what […]
Are you a Middle Grade fan going to ALA Annual in Las Vegas this year? Here are the list of middle grade authors I’d want to queue up for if I had the opportunity: Jon Scieszka – He’ll be there promoting his new Frank Einstein book, the beginning of a middle grade science series about […]
It’s finally summer break, and I’ve started to move books from my To Be Read pile to my Read this Summer pile (so I can take a picture and do a display for the students in July.) I decided to begin this summer with one of the Hatchette titles I bought in a show of […]
I’ve been enjoying my ‘vacation’ so far, having a good time hunting for ARCs to request on Edelweiss and NetGalley. Here are 5 I’ve found for which I am super excited. Star Wars: Jedi Academy, Return of the Padawan (Book 2) by Jeffrey Brown. I loved the first book and am excited to see what’s […]
How is it already June? My students’ last day was Friday and I am now preparing for the summer (I have to be here for a couple of days to complete reports, etc.) One of the things I need to do is take down the covers of all of the books I read this school […]
If you get that reference, let me know in the comments. What do you get when you combine: the court mystician a newly licensed wizard a princess in the body of a handmaid a disgraced former naval officer and current ornithologist a twelve year old adventure guide and 3 obnoxious adventure seekers? Well, you get […]
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