tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15435648588723016542024-03-13T23:13:47.742-07:00Two Libraries One VoiceShannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-65029149906307765152012-04-01T14:40:00.006-07:002012-04-01T15:20:05.420-07:00We Are Kicking Off Poetry Month With Lots Of Fun!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvCPgbCjOy881IKUfmr0fKSZKCcUprCvmGRbNNAzUqf_7oh0QJe2KIZ299ye07WqCHXxJRePLH_NNXvjxVv0mqVMOhBC22bgSaNesNE2Ssi4lWM9-2B1d44ITuVuMlKh81cK76URe1LEM/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.47.10+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvCPgbCjOy881IKUfmr0fKSZKCcUprCvmGRbNNAzUqf_7oh0QJe2KIZ299ye07WqCHXxJRePLH_NNXvjxVv0mqVMOhBC22bgSaNesNE2Ssi4lWM9-2B1d44ITuVuMlKh81cK76URe1LEM/s400/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.47.10+PM.png" width="132" /></a></div>Today is April 1st and the start of one of our favorite months. <br />
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It is National Poetry Month! <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwXIW1fEmy-c2JTXlCxCRz7DjUq7y1hWbS-GA5RbQcKEv3IFXxOhGRyhJAqdN2KnFLzqapzEsHs-mQ3QoWqWpLAB-Ab9oPpvdRcewyf0t_XoR0pKPjSJ6_LNYzLZvcUguTcKXU3uLlPAY/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.46.54+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwXIW1fEmy-c2JTXlCxCRz7DjUq7y1hWbS-GA5RbQcKEv3IFXxOhGRyhJAqdN2KnFLzqapzEsHs-mQ3QoWqWpLAB-Ab9oPpvdRcewyf0t_XoR0pKPjSJ6_LNYzLZvcUguTcKXU3uLlPAY/s400/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.46.54+PM.png" width="300" /></a></div>In April every year, the Academy of America Poets celebrates Poetry Month. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3dJuv-13jvC0TVgIvQ6Uu50yT2eKrti9oU7utBUw8754YqElByS6jMV-NcUGqochBp6PHCzZGrbMuTnutm33jFOm8fYR2nN5-xZ0K7CS9iu75r4TcHASyzU274sGBbPq7Gr8dzk9GLw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.46.44+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH3dJuv-13jvC0TVgIvQ6Uu50yT2eKrti9oU7utBUw8754YqElByS6jMV-NcUGqochBp6PHCzZGrbMuTnutm33jFOm8fYR2nN5-xZ0K7CS9iu75r4TcHASyzU274sGBbPq7Gr8dzk9GLw/s400/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.46.44+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div>On the <a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41" target="_blank">Poets.org site</a> it states, <i>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events." </span></i><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNvPZByIIVF4AJyamrdu6hX2YG3O0gsfe_QcTsaCXJ6nHhkGahAM9vPfOaviEKJLKXg0nLzLozzspxrKkAaAFvLMkMLYSGXbAXbM31zuZsg8NeSZwA_knLLpOoxiSRKg1yYmx3wTh75Fs/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.47.44+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNvPZByIIVF4AJyamrdu6hX2YG3O0gsfe_QcTsaCXJ6nHhkGahAM9vPfOaviEKJLKXg0nLzLozzspxrKkAaAFvLMkMLYSGXbAXbM31zuZsg8NeSZwA_knLLpOoxiSRKg1yYmx3wTh75Fs/s400/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.47.44+PM.png" width="223" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the BEST events that they promote is <a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406" target="_blank">Poem In Your Pocket Day</a>....this year being held of April 26th. On this day, everyone is encouraged to find a favorite poem or write a new poem and put it in your pocket. </div><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="240" id="vp1TEVdH" width="432"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1333314298&f=TEVdHBjyKerS9uRxz6OSog&d=278&m=b&r=360p&volume=&i=m&options="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed id="vp1TEVdH" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1333314298&f=TEVdHBjyKerS9uRxz6OSog&d=278&m=b&r=360p&volume=&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object><br />
Last year, we celebrated <a href="http://twolibrariesonevoice.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-poem-in-your-pocket-day-celebration.html" target="_blank">Poetry Month and Poem In Your Pocket Day together for the first time.</a> You can see how we celebrated by watching this Animoto of the special day at Brook Forest and Van Meter Schools. Throughout the day, we shared poems and celebrated poetry. It was a blast seeing everyone in our schools and friends around the world get involved in this day. <br />
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Thank you, Sarah. :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCjPnNNd7aXRFR8wEbOTcFrBWuVr7cWi7V3zApUe2EWpqbtL-th_SpVWvAhEWBHI2thC9fzOhSYhcsI2U41_6z3A5LEPTu9e_Q1S21yY0cGmGRArmjgryEQnZF2V663po8qzNBizPXhpg/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.27.24+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCjPnNNd7aXRFR8wEbOTcFrBWuVr7cWi7V3zApUe2EWpqbtL-th_SpVWvAhEWBHI2thC9fzOhSYhcsI2U41_6z3A5LEPTu9e_Q1S21yY0cGmGRArmjgryEQnZF2V663po8qzNBizPXhpg/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.27.24+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today, we planned out our schedule and activities for Poetry Month. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirNHA26Jz_5y_6NF9Oun-ntF0guN9xQ1KiM-qvxKOvqGmdvXe3VsluYj9FU7CRZ-bBGotazNvb4RqmmTOQe3AOnkQWQOEm6DolOQ047CWFhOkahZwVt3by4w1So2lUBOgbneFWlfwNCQA/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.29.43+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirNHA26Jz_5y_6NF9Oun-ntF0guN9xQ1KiM-qvxKOvqGmdvXe3VsluYj9FU7CRZ-bBGotazNvb4RqmmTOQe3AOnkQWQOEm6DolOQ047CWFhOkahZwVt3by4w1So2lUBOgbneFWlfwNCQA/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.29.43+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNs3HPaGwDUxhOb7TsxpewwiQ2jqUxqmTIFZbD5bNN-zMHEgSxWrQSLMMQ-SfBx0ltUwJwfZ44BWw9gZ6apXmhV2CHFc4ar494Phcy8Kdph4ljwNcG3sDx13w53oYnWFlmcqGalsaN1mw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+3.58.53+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNs3HPaGwDUxhOb7TsxpewwiQ2jqUxqmTIFZbD5bNN-zMHEgSxWrQSLMMQ-SfBx0ltUwJwfZ44BWw9gZ6apXmhV2CHFc4ar494Phcy8Kdph4ljwNcG3sDx13w53oYnWFlmcqGalsaN1mw/s320/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+3.58.53+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We worked in the Google Doc that we set up for Poetry Month a few weeks ago. Through the chat feature and by writing in the document itself, we were able to plan some very FUN celebrations, projects and connections. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjn29Wt8rQB8YHhgO2LIX-KH5wJVORjJivhQ11oadNN1on6kR6OotKj2tGid1ncECQjxp5hGL1ktb9bE0RN-fo13CP12Lj5k5f-PmdE3LquMr5eT_2UuJNcZIRsBDTkdbRmB2N9Aasxw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+3.28.46+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjn29Wt8rQB8YHhgO2LIX-KH5wJVORjJivhQ11oadNN1on6kR6OotKj2tGid1ncECQjxp5hGL1ktb9bE0RN-fo13CP12Lj5k5f-PmdE3LquMr5eT_2UuJNcZIRsBDTkdbRmB2N9Aasxw/s320/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+3.28.46+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>We will be creating Spine Poetry again with our students. We will turn the photos into a collaborative FlipBook that will be shared with our schools and friends. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHW5l8KHGuwAQixqXkrdQ7kAmHR1QfgIjWXOuFwfi2l4oxKh0QHsNHfgui9P0LwnLPVUYRl0OfasO4EA-mcB1-Nr1NEErl2hPEwOID7-4BmlgmFMZVpLFiqFB-ghzXFuzXqV9egqjkuU8/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.51.06+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHW5l8KHGuwAQixqXkrdQ7kAmHR1QfgIjWXOuFwfi2l4oxKh0QHsNHfgui9P0LwnLPVUYRl0OfasO4EA-mcB1-Nr1NEErl2hPEwOID7-4BmlgmFMZVpLFiqFB-ghzXFuzXqV9egqjkuU8/s320/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+2.51.06+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<a href="http://www.tikatok.com/" target="_blank">Tikatok</a> eBooks featuring poetry and illustrations they create. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJTNRwjPVeorqUr8uoahQP2Sd4n624_BPXTZYpMATLOcmP26cv8EBA6Hc8rGXECWirIy0VYleFpQx0ENFBg-OtIrXpsHr9yDBhjwP1UxuLP9A9kqLv0WkwtMsfI4xqEx_PvKc0lThyphenhyphen2Jw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.43.30+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJTNRwjPVeorqUr8uoahQP2Sd4n624_BPXTZYpMATLOcmP26cv8EBA6Hc8rGXECWirIy0VYleFpQx0ENFBg-OtIrXpsHr9yDBhjwP1UxuLP9A9kqLv0WkwtMsfI4xqEx_PvKc0lThyphenhyphen2Jw/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.43.30+PM.png" /></a></div>We will also be using our iPads and iTouches to create poetry. We will use apps like <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/visual-poet/id375207524?mt=8" target="_blank">Visual Poet</a>. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLqEvSfC4vwOc9I4Zxvwbdv3v3p_Jr7xp7m2P7Ds7id6qyW5hvSMGQFhKA-yyfUe12NiMNl6Kl6n8YOp1DHag6bNeZjJl8aFuftxrNohdbv66iUAu3K7g1CkGstnC_kH9-hN0yB8VhWI/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+3.21.29+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLqEvSfC4vwOc9I4Zxvwbdv3v3p_Jr7xp7m2P7Ds7id6qyW5hvSMGQFhKA-yyfUe12NiMNl6Kl6n8YOp1DHag6bNeZjJl8aFuftxrNohdbv66iUAu3K7g1CkGstnC_kH9-hN0yB8VhWI/s320/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+3.21.29+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We found time to connect each day this week with different classes to celebrate the kick-off for poetry month. During these connections we will discuss Poetry Month and Poem In Your Pocket Day, show the Animoto from last years celebration and tell our students how we are going to work together to create digital eBooks, poems and other art work. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And of course....we will be sharing a little poetry with them too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8jIExMSXQC5EmeopONqfEil0Nrj7su4RDq1ZUeie1Wg9xtdRyE58bVCEr3pY5v1pq3LtHt241dV3AAPXTUHjg8IhYIcY4ek5PHHfeJk1q7YSNaoETZbkAEGm_DBRzCuCNlWF2XR7RxM/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.38.24+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8jIExMSXQC5EmeopONqfEil0Nrj7su4RDq1ZUeie1Wg9xtdRyE58bVCEr3pY5v1pq3LtHt241dV3AAPXTUHjg8IhYIcY4ek5PHHfeJk1q7YSNaoETZbkAEGm_DBRzCuCNlWF2XR7RxM/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.38.24+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUPjTojroIXrNEmtyY9E-95qb8SKUgJOccsRG8CyN7jHHiQFBaocaganesKVRGP7zSu1gtmiExb3KFbdeMrqhyNikHuIrhcqH1rrUbRwJhEdHZdIU3-GdNOYIUhS5_l7t9k4vRx5oCOc/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.38.32+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUPjTojroIXrNEmtyY9E-95qb8SKUgJOccsRG8CyN7jHHiQFBaocaganesKVRGP7zSu1gtmiExb3KFbdeMrqhyNikHuIrhcqH1rrUbRwJhEdHZdIU3-GdNOYIUhS5_l7t9k4vRx5oCOc/s320/Screen+shot+2012-04-01+at+4.38.32+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is going to be a wonderful month. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We can't wait to hear you are going to celebrate National Poetry Month too! </div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-60949016156239040492012-03-09T05:58:00.002-08:002012-03-09T06:00:02.337-08:00World Read Aloud Day 2012 - Part One<div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NLPJVXT7TFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><span>We celebrated<a href="http://litworld.org/worldreadaloudday"> World Read Aloud Day</a> with sensational students, awesome authors, and excellent educators. We "traveled" to New York, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, and California. This global literacy celebration showed students the power of words and stories and brought to life this year's theme,"Change the World, Story by Story." Thank you to everyone who took part in this memorable day. We are lucky, lucky librarians. </span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH7Jc4N5J9Ic1w3NitzuayeN34sTzx7qVlRsDmra1_sqRfivifqurI49A_zFObzeu0hPvhrM6nY9ZL25HxEI_S_pXKvENku3CsYXUXCvGmJCEFISRUv4RyunLaVULz_xobK-oaukQ9Ncyg/s320/Screen+shot+2012-03-07+at+3.30.33+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717270847178073186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 86px; " /></span></div><div><span>John's library celebrated World Read Aloud Day with five authors. He's thankful they took time out of their busy schedules to celebrate the importance of reading aloud.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhevUN1f1Kesp1PgnsZsDCjdIHozfxrE7qEDWSyg_N5488VTJiTAzwdOISpZEn_GBg0Mk7ztaH1KzOQydSSKHAZTt16phU5UBeoV4ddtF3XeeL6n2lGjylHHh-JcU5SZe-tKuSrz0QgJTMS/s320/sarahalbee2.png" /></span></div><div><span>Sarah Albee chatted with a first-grade class about the time she sent Queen Elizabeth a drawing and received a royal response. Wow! She read excerpts from<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214285934"> Elephants</a> and<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71259420"> Lions</a> and talked a bit about the history of poop. Thanks, Sarah! </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FA4voM1WOCk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Watch the hilarious book trailer for<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435628714"> Poop Happened</a>! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/005jZSfDylU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>An unfortunate incident inspired Sarah to write <i>Poop Happened! </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixClrOXLNWAj_Tz9lWMva29OTPPhMfvMnupULvpp5n9X9n5H3g5437uiBblcxvErvPz4z75yB-ly1WCbE6qmh1ibaNevZzlrEAFilH7kZ_TXfEeaSjcZsX68MwlnZ_YMzY79H1JtvtNj0m/s320/Sarahsbooks.PNG" /> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Borrow Sarah Albee's books from your <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=sarah+albee&qt=owc_search">school or public library</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>*******************</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYqlyMF_AGJPRFSbFVvh5254giw9Cb1NWSeqnYWf25CxyIFcyn8IAGvxNJH-f1bd75XGsDP1630y879f9WnAvLLSVVpAekXNSJg2BYnhGf1yYbEL09dxurXyQI31v7-CheOlgXgARYNmP/s320/jody.png" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span>Jody Feldman answered fifth-graders' questions about<i> <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/gollywhopper-games/oclc/148722458&referer=brief_results">The Gollywhopper Games</a></i>. She shared that she's always enjoyed creating puzzles and has fun working them into her books. She closed by reading an excerpt from <i>The Seventh Level</i>. Thanks, Jody! </span><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bPBl39xQmxs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Check out the book trailer for <i>The Gollywhopper Games</i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WElI_lJY-PA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Anderson's Bookshop always says wonderful things about<i> The Seventh Level</i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PF__j0Zashg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Jody Feldman provides a summary of the first two chapters of<i> The Seventh Level.</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL92ay3WM2pXSpEKHAFDpvEqi5eB1ZXfLuWNlYADGqIG-3KxoRZYWvdbWlacsykvHWr1KvRbvtXPk6pBDYDojvqV2K-vXWttaX1V8l8wCT55w09BYjnh1ixX2bMvQ3FFetXkogv1hN2NJT/s320/jodyfeldmanbooks.png" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Borrow<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/gollywhopper-games/oclc/148722458&referer=brief_results"> The Gollywhopper Games</a> and<i><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/419262422"> The Seventh Level </a></i>from your school or public library. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>**************</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvK_lMTzZEunJbjFB7H2hWLwG_yVA1R4vGLTmelPWJ_XvbdlpBsGOJGmEh3KqNontewHzg0MC8HYSJV_R7MnDpMdB100pyydyC6kHWyzhizM_9lO-atfdmP9k14oHKu2JX64cFsrT-IOwA/s320/alexander.png" /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>C. Alexander London and his dog Skyped with a fifth-grade class. He shared the inspiration for <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/we-are-not-eaten-by-yaks/oclc/535490599&referer=brief_results">We Are Not Eaten By Yaks</a>, talked about the importance of reading and writing, and read from a book he wrote in 1988 (I think he was in first grade). Thanks, C. Alexander! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MpPke_3pxfM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>I love the book trailer for <i><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/we-are-not-eaten-by-yaks/oclc/535490599&referer=brief_results">We Are Not Eaten By Yaks</a></i>. It is an exciting adventure with tv-addicted twins, explorers, and humor. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-Ba4XNokqqg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>C. Alexander London created this video to celebrate the book birthday of <i>We Dine With Cannibals</i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5kmA8vBXAzg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>C. Alexander London has watched his fair share of <i>Spongebob</i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47nsSpRQO48fVoeKyidOdyFrZiQX4pqCU0sxV_QE2Mk776ZeiFdKUxBCrA53UvmXc4zoVEskLLk31pwvYaRS6IPSvAzwNlz0AvBfDDeozgsYVm6QQONlv2QLW7zBmpDCMrkAmY4r7swpw/s320/accidental.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717335128662093314" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 248px; " /><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Borrow C. Alexander London's books from your<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=we+are+not+eaten+by+yaks"> school or public library</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>****************</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMFVfDLk7DmSJHlwkMakBJ_6wJ3qxEeWho5CNbLsuqA5P4H7yaTrJFkNVXQ6UBVPriZLq7BgLPmahwuSrENZtisQQ5HzN-Bd9UXyjrwT4rI1DghVK7TG3NsyG2a280IarbGLpuZK-1v3E/s320/lindaurban.png" /> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Linda Urban celebrated with an extra happy first-grade class. She reminisced about the time she and Kate Messner<a href="http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/2011/11/three-perfect-picture-books-for-picture.html"> visited my library</a>, read<a href="http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/2011/11/thursday-afternoon-with-kate-messner.html"> Mouse Was Mad</a>, and asked a few kids to discuss their favorite books. She's one in a million. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3MebPj8YS6o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Watch a clip from when Linda Urban visited with my third, fourth, and fifth graders. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1543302482" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=1731910632&playerId=1543302482&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><br /></span></div><div style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; ">Sharon Creech's blurb for Linda's<a href="http://lindaurbanbooks.com/books/"> A Crooked Kind of Perfect </a>is perfect: "I love Zoe's parents and her friend Wheeler, but most especially I love Zoe. She's perfect, in the most deliciously crooked kind of way." </span> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;color: rgb(95, 95, 95); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyyQpok08LdqgROpkx6-8wx0KCS2lDwH_NciG6jr8MLY-8AMHYnFmjFQqbW1aFClnnUxab9c4b4z6oGpWHshqMyPRZd_QdbeyJ_pwt4hXfMgYSqQPJRiD16u7mNdICDuVx0mQcDlGyVVuS/s320/lindaurban2.png" /> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Borrow Linda Urban's books from your<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Linda+urban"> school or public library.</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>************</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ4YiKvCpdd6-mrdlers7TA-Qpn56YlfMbpcANXrNE0tiaG8AUtH-BITXPY0ingjZ7tsztMZ9IcyLaECX50m_Ywo70ifyiXFIUx5dKz2S09PRBsJSaCOO_uU97ajeP7Pkx4nok3-HiWc28/s320/olugbemisola.png" /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Olugbemisola connected with Shannon Miller's fifth graders and my second graders at the same time. She delivered energetic booktalks about<i> <a href="http://www.anneursu.com/">Breadcrumbs</a></i>,<i> <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Wrinkle_in_Time_50th_Anniversary_Comme.html?id=0eOzXbOWHkIC">A Wrinkle in Time</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.gracelin.com/content.php?page=dumplingdays">Dumpling Days</a></i>. Students from both groups shared their favorite books. Thank you, Olugbemisola! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Mel1cCbRZBY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><i>A Wrinkle in Time </i> is one of Olugbemisola's all-time favorite novels. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gVWV14kyTYM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>"World Read Aloud Day is fantastic because I get to know you guys." - Olugbemisola</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span><img src="http://olugbemisolabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/8thGradeSuper-207x300.jpg" alt="8thGradeSuper" /></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Borrow<i> 8th Grade Super Zero</i> from your <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/540876556">school or public library</a>.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1FLjaX5HA18" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div>Mr. Schuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04065363784663641593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-36394818553957381342012-02-25T20:09:00.003-08:002012-02-25T20:38:46.048-08:00Our Friendiversary Celebration....<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="240" id="vp126Dw6" width="432"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1330228923&f=26Dw6XGmyJn1fb8v94I3zA&d=145&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed id="vp126Dw6" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1330228923&f=26Dw6XGmyJn1fb8v94I3zA&d=145&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">First Book is celebrating Friendiversary this week by providing 7,000 new <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elephant & Piggie</em> books to second-graders at Title I schools in Louisiana and Massachusetts. The <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elephant & Piggie</em> series is written and illustrated by our friend <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mo-willems-is-the-go-to-author-for-children--and-their-parents/2012/01/06/gIQAFLztfP_story.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2e84db; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Mo Willems</a>, whose support makes it possible for First Book able to provide these books. Every book includes a special Friendiversary note from Mo, and his publisher, Disney Publishing Worldwide, is also providing activity kits, stickers and posters free of charge to each classroom."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">And we will celebrate friendship and reading all year long. </span></span>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-19408095935036556492012-02-03T22:06:00.000-08:002012-02-03T22:26:45.037-08:00We Celebrated Bubble Gum Day!<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="240" id="vp137jwk" width="432"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1328334347&f=37jwkiiy7yVdtCINgDkM8A&d=265&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options="><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed id="vp137jwk" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1328334347&f=37jwkiiy7yVdtCINgDkM8A&d=265&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object><br />
We celebrated Bubble Gum Day together this week.<br />
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On <a href="http://www.bubblegumday.com/Bubble_Gum_Day/Bubble_Gum_Day.html" target="_blank">Bubble Gum Day</a> everyone who donates 50 cents gets to chew gum at school. It is a great day to have fun and raise money for a cause that you care about. This year we are raising money for LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day (<a href="http://twolibrariesonevoice.blogspot.com/2012/01/we-are-so-excited-about-world-read.html" target="_blank">check out how we are celebrating WRAD</a>).<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX17XxlVWzgph5BqzvDWoi80wQ_vWC_aUcpK2YS_8IJ9r48yeoRjY0jRFXPsxpn7X1c5zcv0xxQr2wnOqSz2RMLpLKI2kLaSpB9RBrNs0Y6CbaF-8OYgc7tHusJSrsewIgnrJBaEDpmH0/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.33.25+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX17XxlVWzgph5BqzvDWoi80wQ_vWC_aUcpK2YS_8IJ9r48yeoRjY0jRFXPsxpn7X1c5zcv0xxQr2wnOqSz2RMLpLKI2kLaSpB9RBrNs0Y6CbaF-8OYgc7tHusJSrsewIgnrJBaEDpmH0/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.33.25+PM.png" width="257" /></a></div>The students at Van Meter raised over $175.00. They sold dozens of packs of gum to the students in kindergarten through 12th grade....even a few teachers came and bought gum. John's students will be celebrating Bubble Gum Day on February 24th.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSP5vW4iJvWralMocZDD3esI_UAt-nTOGkuBJMgSYBgkFCSdf1qbbXyD84vYrOOVmg870ysIkLJB492yeqQuL0G-2McPzcJlEq8Qqip-PHlfgg7PCg2gscD1kvftB5HX2gGNILphshBag/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.33.41+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSP5vW4iJvWralMocZDD3esI_UAt-nTOGkuBJMgSYBgkFCSdf1qbbXyD84vYrOOVmg870ysIkLJB492yeqQuL0G-2McPzcJlEq8Qqip-PHlfgg7PCg2gscD1kvftB5HX2gGNILphshBag/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.33.41+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQSGJTgbhZQ4xp9bEEtt03UfKZ09-M4xrmhby0-A0bXLWqIp9wEwlxV9_bZf0YBmB_RIdtpFrCOlY6bGGJGNmKgs7WVEGKK0KF5l6agU_GgAYCGybNcBf9GE4X_H2iuJW1BSrtEvQSbI/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.17.21+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQSGJTgbhZQ4xp9bEEtt03UfKZ09-M4xrmhby0-A0bXLWqIp9wEwlxV9_bZf0YBmB_RIdtpFrCOlY6bGGJGNmKgs7WVEGKK0KF5l6agU_GgAYCGybNcBf9GE4X_H2iuJW1BSrtEvQSbI/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.17.21+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfOrdkuGRV6Vz5NFJbcQ5b6pPUEk30qoTG0wSYL7JI2iN6RQm4y_4UattbsOnM0uRfHP_U2NaSFGOfT8kwmdqV7k0FGoxAVbaQ6N52ynk-gZWeXtLEGc_GqoAZ3UT6HzLwJpOysDDdDC0/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-30+at+7.57.46+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfOrdkuGRV6Vz5NFJbcQ5b6pPUEk30qoTG0wSYL7JI2iN6RQm4y_4UattbsOnM0uRfHP_U2NaSFGOfT8kwmdqV7k0FGoxAVbaQ6N52ynk-gZWeXtLEGc_GqoAZ3UT6HzLwJpOysDDdDC0/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-30+at+7.57.46+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Author <a href="http://www.ruthspiro.com/hello.html" target="_blank">Ruth Spiro</a> started Bubble Gum Day in 2006. She is the author of <i>Lester Fizz, Bubble-Gum Artist. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjNNfDr6PXmODa4skaXw2QVKQHW-qH8XRHo7vriyKAvUwkT3QeKQPfa7_r5mLRKPjzrO7ih-wWi6Qqvdc1VbJmCIwVpy-uq2EEGuPOIpO5075Hxkw3C054ndZXmOa1GfYbXoL_Km7EQ4/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-30+at+7.55.23+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjNNfDr6PXmODa4skaXw2QVKQHW-qH8XRHo7vriyKAvUwkT3QeKQPfa7_r5mLRKPjzrO7ih-wWi6Qqvdc1VbJmCIwVpy-uq2EEGuPOIpO5075Hxkw3C054ndZXmOa1GfYbXoL_Km7EQ4/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-30+at+7.55.23+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikz2gNUMNoLe3q8kR637AyxTruaTnHlcBAtIraRdzJ73WBjNMRMLdQdoia52A6GGCgo8YWmn4ZIQ97istAgNFLcA7L4QcBVjO6dKLdlRB94nfm_v7nAY2wEnLhXJaK6t1W8xjT221J2Y0/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.34.12+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikz2gNUMNoLe3q8kR637AyxTruaTnHlcBAtIraRdzJ73WBjNMRMLdQdoia52A6GGCgo8YWmn4ZIQ97istAgNFLcA7L4QcBVjO6dKLdlRB94nfm_v7nAY2wEnLhXJaK6t1W8xjT221J2Y0/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.34.12+PM.png" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7o1DUnyGH-N7w3V4ikzBxAUppzGPTfn8g0ElWIyH29aqJfHgxlNtXREdgqtkBve1NuXY5LhIirRtmXEHgauBQg8_tQnS_SYx2-8-GEsrGW3Wv1p8UTnb99J-HSZ9kxOs0_Byhv8GuVc/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.40.11+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7o1DUnyGH-N7w3V4ikzBxAUppzGPTfn8g0ElWIyH29aqJfHgxlNtXREdgqtkBve1NuXY5LhIirRtmXEHgauBQg8_tQnS_SYx2-8-GEsrGW3Wv1p8UTnb99J-HSZ9kxOs0_Byhv8GuVc/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-02+at+9.40.11+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We had so much fun Skyping with Ruth. She read <i>Lestor Fizz</i> to us and answered questions from our students. She even blew a bubble for us! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can read more about Ruth's story in this wonderful article from the Winnetka Talk, <a href="http://winnetka.suntimes.com/entertainment/10308112-421/deerfield-author-celebrates-life-in-a-bubble.html#.TyyaW_S2Qi4.facebook" target="_blank">Deerfield Author Celebrates Life in a Bubble</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFdh0mbSONpJ9wZuxlsvV7zx09Ndcx6SMtuAiRpeZg4M-f6vyGlCdQuyt396BIuCjAxMHUd3sWxgJQM6-Q2zjdgm367HlZwlOTIQMl9WIg7azaiA7aroOe-dqUxhFvubYaQC-O-i_-Zew/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.24.55+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFdh0mbSONpJ9wZuxlsvV7zx09Ndcx6SMtuAiRpeZg4M-f6vyGlCdQuyt396BIuCjAxMHUd3sWxgJQM6-Q2zjdgm367HlZwlOTIQMl9WIg7azaiA7aroOe-dqUxhFvubYaQC-O-i_-Zew/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.24.55+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>The 6th graders at Van Meter created iMovies on Bubble Gum Day. They were given two pieces of gum and 25 minutes. Their iMovie was to explain how to blow a bubble.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" height="266" src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/3DnTzRTI-Ik/0.jpg" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3DnTzRTI-Ik&fs=1&source=uds"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3DnTzRTI-Ik&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiY_x1QK2RUPNtQAyHEDHIjCxNy6n_d7fnOBRbG468kvpu7nZ6H7oiiKZ6Ewk5d4ZadqvLat1tj0liiSNt75MXDWjzE8LezZxM_iT5wKqepO7pPauiJy4CvCWKFLqRHkE7XqORkg6WnU/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.28.07+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiY_x1QK2RUPNtQAyHEDHIjCxNy6n_d7fnOBRbG468kvpu7nZ6H7oiiKZ6Ewk5d4ZadqvLat1tj0liiSNt75MXDWjzE8LezZxM_iT5wKqepO7pPauiJy4CvCWKFLqRHkE7XqORkg6WnU/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.28.07+PM.png" width="237" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Shannon taught all of our 4th graders at Oak Brook and Van Meter about FlipSnack today. They are using FlipSnack with a collaborative state project they are working on. The students in Van Meter created a ComicLife page to celebrate Bubble Gum Day and they put it into a FlipSnack to share. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WgA_2ftFrjXf8WVSuTnj2jw4iKKZgINNFcpKp2oSWgAKwApAUBwmjkb80B0Im1F_9IEv1f89aFU1Z4vMMK1ay5RX5aY6zopQ9fR8nupz3J8cc2BMnbs9xGJKIb3RhTqXAiE1RGWSSuE/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.32.13+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WgA_2ftFrjXf8WVSuTnj2jw4iKKZgINNFcpKp2oSWgAKwApAUBwmjkb80B0Im1F_9IEv1f89aFU1Z4vMMK1ay5RX5aY6zopQ9fR8nupz3J8cc2BMnbs9xGJKIb3RhTqXAiE1RGWSSuE/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.32.13+PM.png" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP7tJwBrMKa4FD2Ak8Klky83jpeTstr6Ns33SWji7C2LkevNdTZudDUymYsd4M_XG33qI3AxydWEC9exzqlXK0lfFFCvgh_JGfEwBcwNYqIypczfoKfQYZLTd6I9TVjwzhfFXjJo-0m7I/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.28.38+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP7tJwBrMKa4FD2Ak8Klky83jpeTstr6Ns33SWji7C2LkevNdTZudDUymYsd4M_XG33qI3AxydWEC9exzqlXK0lfFFCvgh_JGfEwBcwNYqIypczfoKfQYZLTd6I9TVjwzhfFXjJo-0m7I/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+8.28.38+PM.png" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The 1st and 2nd graders created little Bubble People out of paper plates and balloons. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGBfWo6uV4iaWCxO3WxtX7W6Zdy5Ar7TKnnxqxojLqxkXt_57jP-bZrwp61pNIdFJoLcDvn9-wrnPjAi9wCqLkOSjBlaM7fMqScAYBxHqIUu0gL-8Q9yZcaoz1TmM95bYhyphenhyphenmbcCxGTGwE/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+5.16.11+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGBfWo6uV4iaWCxO3WxtX7W6Zdy5Ar7TKnnxqxojLqxkXt_57jP-bZrwp61pNIdFJoLcDvn9-wrnPjAi9wCqLkOSjBlaM7fMqScAYBxHqIUu0gL-8Q9yZcaoz1TmM95bYhyphenhyphenmbcCxGTGwE/s320/Screen+shot+2012-02-03+at+5.16.11+PM.png" width="208" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And then they wrote the steps for blowing a bubble. Everyone is having fun reading them in the hallways. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-3916569211553202642012-01-08T14:38:00.000-08:002012-02-09T21:40:22.316-08:00We Are So Excited About World Read Aloud Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKtsczsJFUrzveE7oo5C0cJTGHLSg0uEeDgVqUMCcs4T6yli5KrBcRTT9bzC9JOQCAlrAvP1jGSY88F7Bc0LzIxe4V0VigHxVUk3EUwEyOgPi7jArnLCdMq75e89uAt-IW4fRTJ_v5wH0/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+12.43.06+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKtsczsJFUrzveE7oo5C0cJTGHLSg0uEeDgVqUMCcs4T6yli5KrBcRTT9bzC9JOQCAlrAvP1jGSY88F7Bc0LzIxe4V0VigHxVUk3EUwEyOgPi7jArnLCdMq75e89uAt-IW4fRTJ_v5wH0/s320/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+12.43.06+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On March 7, 2012 we will be celebrating <a href="http://litworld.org/worldreadaloudday/">World Read Aloud Day </a>with the world. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The theme this year says it all....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Change the World, Story by Story</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNoz5AjUjPGGXXLCznEEVvJdyHknbiNC1WE6Vf83D8QMRCudaFcHJWFgVoJRcmKDzhT3TjQaOgUjyaXGXRoAoivzpKFnlmf8dW7ijGjCu1DmnPVr29-Ev-O_9omOGPAs-ypl1teQlmMA/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+1.44.50+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNoz5AjUjPGGXXLCznEEVvJdyHknbiNC1WE6Vf83D8QMRCudaFcHJWFgVoJRcmKDzhT3TjQaOgUjyaXGXRoAoivzpKFnlmf8dW7ijGjCu1DmnPVr29-Ev-O_9omOGPAs-ypl1teQlmMA/s320/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+1.44.50+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This amazing day is sponsored by <a href="http://litworld.org/">LitWorlds</a>, whose missio<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">n<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> is, "to use the power of story to cultivate literacy skills in the world's most vulnerable children through Education, Advocacy and Innovation."</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Through social media such as Skype, Twitter, and Facebook we will come together once again to celebrate the power of words and magic of literacy. </span></span></div><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="240" id="vp1r4kWp" width="432"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1326059684&f=r4kWpJfQY37TtN9H8U7fbA&d=262&m=a&r=360p&volume=&i=m&options="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed id="vp1r4kWp" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1326059684&f=r4kWpJfQY37TtN9H8U7fbA&d=262&m=a&r=360p&volume=&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Last year we celebrated by connecting with 13 other classrooms and 9 authors throughout the day. It was one of the best days and one we will never forget. So when LitWorld announced WRAD 2012, we just couldn't wait to start planning. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBBuspMhP96DG9kYkb78u5sUO4remunvovbORUg1_oQebte2CysacaJpX36jVJtrdYD8VUihyvvdmir0Y-D2hA5voVv2ye0ya40oUsgXgEBmHsO1k-1BicaV8nN-W0-ngifkCXYl1VRo/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+2.14.19+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBBuspMhP96DG9kYkb78u5sUO4remunvovbORUg1_oQebte2CysacaJpX36jVJtrdYD8VUihyvvdmir0Y-D2hA5voVv2ye0ya40oUsgXgEBmHsO1k-1BicaV8nN-W0-ngifkCXYl1VRo/s320/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+2.14.19+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">We have created the "<a href="http://changetheworldstorybystory.wikispaces.com/">Change the World, Story by Story" wiki</a>. If you would like to join us on March 7th, please join the wiki and sign up on the <a href="http://changetheworldstorybystory.wikispaces.com/Skype+Schedules+and+Projects" target="_blank">"Skype Schedule and Projects"</a> page. We will post different resources and artifacts as well on the wiki. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNEWWoQ1sjfBA5x0GVTlLn2eVAB8oklbUmijGBu3coMuO_6nxzNx-Q8_92HzYWog-OiRl0FYRollgjAYCR3849P_kuR41ipO9UgXZr3P5bYqtcV8pIV90ArctPFe7DSL2HVn0uvTihwgg/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+12.36.20+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNEWWoQ1sjfBA5x0GVTlLn2eVAB8oklbUmijGBu3coMuO_6nxzNx-Q8_92HzYWog-OiRl0FYRollgjAYCR3849P_kuR41ipO9UgXZr3P5bYqtcV8pIV90ArctPFe7DSL2HVn0uvTihwgg/s320/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+12.36.20+PM.png" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">John created these beautiful posters and they are decorating our hallways. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GC3Dd1Ow_hskiYj4X8XQLhh0HLWx5wLGJMQewQHSJ27rxPyZnwGyE3ochvO6Q1GmFsXtR8OyRNETlyfP-UtsTbN2LnaSxuG0lwuzzUCFOlMFaXxcH4401fUa6eraaVx6Hk3v3LErq8E/s1600/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+1.35.55+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GC3Dd1Ow_hskiYj4X8XQLhh0HLWx5wLGJMQewQHSJ27rxPyZnwGyE3ochvO6Q1GmFsXtR8OyRNETlyfP-UtsTbN2LnaSxuG0lwuzzUCFOlMFaXxcH4401fUa6eraaVx6Hk3v3LErq8E/s320/Screen+shot+2012-01-08+at+1.35.55+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Shannon created this banner for the wiki and it could also be used as a bookmark for WRAD. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We are also VERY excited to announce that we have been invited by LitWorlds to be WRADvocat</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">es. As WRADvocates our role is to be the "Ambassador for World Read Aloud Day" is our area by spreading the wor<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">d through social media, celebrations, and connections that we will make. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As we look ahead to the year and all of the events in front of us, World Read Aloud Day is definitely one that will bring excitement, fun, and new friendships to our students and school communities. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">And we hope that you will want to bring this to yours too by joining us on March 7th. </span></div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-52017644821248215372011-11-20T18:14:00.001-08:002011-11-20T19:30:46.773-08:00Celebrating Ivy + Bean Day Together for the 2nd Year<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihKj5tqYdn1jhSKmIE8A7srtYydMux3zQHWf4f5wYDYW8ZRHhbQUyf9aBeyObpfZox7a1akRV72ZISxxOHiidCuCFpns07xNXIPW9IN5vmCVnGtUUvKSL1AOOmawF7UiPU2R_Fts6Krkc/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.15.26+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihKj5tqYdn1jhSKmIE8A7srtYydMux3zQHWf4f5wYDYW8ZRHhbQUyf9aBeyObpfZox7a1akRV72ZISxxOHiidCuCFpns07xNXIPW9IN5vmCVnGtUUvKSL1AOOmawF7UiPU2R_Fts6Krkc/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.15.26+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We were so excited when it was time for <a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/">Chronicle Book's</a> Ivy + Bean Day this year. Our very first connection for Two Libraries One Voice was last year when we celebrated Ivy + Bean Day together with our second graders at Oak Brook and Van Meter. You can watch our Animoto videos from last year here....</div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/SZmd19GND00/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SZmd19GND00&fs=1&source=uds"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SZmd19GND00&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><object id="vp1My8Ve" width="432" height="240" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1321844412&f=My8VeiGMYRSMiO9x3A3qeQ&d=173&m=a&r=240p&volume=&i=m&options="><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed id="vp1My8Ve" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1321844412&f=My8VeiGMYRSMiO9x3A3qeQ&d=173&m=a&r=240p&volume=&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This year we planned to celebrate with our first and second graders. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcu9PpleTRdplDocqtKvOF2_wcGBJqr_DyZnMGGwx3XLGd8ylJOjJoEQXnA2Q3-oaWqL4aqolbL2SWOJrVos5YRHzqyJ0fCwbyLg6x6t7hmt3Js4IOUCCL186c2p0ngCUSR7T2WBQ-yE/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.17.15+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjcu9PpleTRdplDocqtKvOF2_wcGBJqr_DyZnMGGwx3XLGd8ylJOjJoEQXnA2Q3-oaWqL4aqolbL2SWOJrVos5YRHzqyJ0fCwbyLg6x6t7hmt3Js4IOUCCL186c2p0ngCUSR7T2WBQ-yE/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.17.15+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscjwfyzlBy-LshqsJa5yPMln_WhUXzdEBijd9TG1Lc2xm5MINK6TVLIL13Yh9fITGgv8SDVAqU1x4w9B09rl5nCDAb7306GPgaV9p2FvZUtKCqzy35ljDCQS138LJ6VCpE4uVdspBtQvG/s320/securedownload+%25281%2529.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2jW7JLL84pq23lfPGYl_sU6pM9J5YjmroPfKdLb39bCGKts0W54HxSe8v3ebJNodftoxYuutZrDSdw6UnfJ_lXfyorem3JkKfcjhPYmgY7k2lMwUZvxvX1bXcfDu8dHC6b7fluoGrnPjg/s320/me2.png" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We signed up on Chronicle Book's Web site to see all of their <a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/landing-pages/ivyandbean/teachers.html">amazing activity and celebration ideas. </a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqkZyh2V9jpPgS6G1mvxYStcQceil86f0Kj-il_sqDKFkrdegICMUBE-Sf_TfZyQ-EkFHoolzOAUGVdzElkf0zVQZCKZXyLOcBpU5sIWY-wcSgAQa-NCysia3WCDqANp9FpU59tpIgmM/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.06.26+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqkZyh2V9jpPgS6G1mvxYStcQceil86f0Kj-il_sqDKFkrdegICMUBE-Sf_TfZyQ-EkFHoolzOAUGVdzElkf0zVQZCKZXyLOcBpU5sIWY-wcSgAQa-NCysia3WCDqANp9FpU59tpIgmM/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.06.26+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLzhE5S6M_-ASH4YJqbCDk78FAl-I22lPvvVtjrUqJPWAdLqvt2TkX5rumDqbgeF9GDNLCElqEsNOJTml7QauoqN6bMS9rL44WGF_u8fQOuMTYsw8RPWlTnOO1l0yJPHu65PdENMWMe9D/s320/john.png" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They also sent us a little package with posters, pins, and activity packet.....we loved this!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70DL-tRqydzQrXyPKQEma3jW2jhbK6sddFn62WJ06XxtULDtKZF_wXFIP_nF8iiEBXLFHXg-o_Zh9PA5g1WQ-RHMpVzKxRMy5bxke0W4K9YL7fyDVDJeAz87aVpP9nUVwFsmyz2fQj1Q/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.29.29+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70DL-tRqydzQrXyPKQEma3jW2jhbK6sddFn62WJ06XxtULDtKZF_wXFIP_nF8iiEBXLFHXg-o_Zh9PA5g1WQ-RHMpVzKxRMy5bxke0W4K9YL7fyDVDJeAz87aVpP9nUVwFsmyz2fQj1Q/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.29.29+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All throughout the week we celebrated with our students. We set up a few stations within our libraries. In one station they had to design their very own "Ivy Room." In book 1, Bean is amazed by Ivy's bedroom. We had them use a drawing app on the iPads to create their very own dream room too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJYdnlbHvnltn4TJLqSyoofTscvsP4fFuVYeQKesfVbXbJoVIFYGHlsAvs3eZHvKCsTTPQcwmF3oJB2aBb4yK1gZFZ-dN22TifAhvibqgIkUsP60rNNhkH1m6asWhUobYAzcWjBbTJvA/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.20.03+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJYdnlbHvnltn4TJLqSyoofTscvsP4fFuVYeQKesfVbXbJoVIFYGHlsAvs3eZHvKCsTTPQcwmF3oJB2aBb4yK1gZFZ-dN22TifAhvibqgIkUsP60rNNhkH1m6asWhUobYAzcWjBbTJvA/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.20.03+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They created cootie catchers in one of the stations. You can find the directions and template<a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/landing-pages/ivyandbean/pdfs/ivybean_cootiecatcher.pdf"> here.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpFhgXRpTwR4v7vxZ7Umc_bMXITsfeXkjG3yYCnEUCZXKIKcyKI1s4lnMGA3XGIqOzfPFWtY-JocxjX4KYVI0BMlju_Zy4z9FPd9g1H-aA0H__CG7VfVzKBqq2QQ81qKUfqjjeGKR14Y/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.06.00+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpFhgXRpTwR4v7vxZ7Umc_bMXITsfeXkjG3yYCnEUCZXKIKcyKI1s4lnMGA3XGIqOzfPFWtY-JocxjX4KYVI0BMlju_Zy4z9FPd9g1H-aA0H__CG7VfVzKBqq2QQ81qKUfqjjeGKR14Y/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.06.00+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbT_jba8a6AiobmNCP5lqgJoK098aEHnofeE85ljGXWwJ5_8vm9750ycYrIV-3yWXiUVhTwAJuX4SXuKp1DhEm99fRDg0aXpkkCW28xo3lty-UKtfuHKB4jTD8odyQAeIkcraKoeFz2y6/s320/newsp.JPG" /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;clear: both; ">Out students had a blast creating fancy <a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/landing-pages/ivyandbean/pdfs/IvyandBeanNoNewsisGoodNews_ActivityKit.pdf">Newspaper Party Hats</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;clear: both; "><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmQHaU6r7IGwGJUG1wxTV7MP8ki6CSVs24bH3hYRluruBw0C9cOiw-AhlUDEl9iUlJ98qy2ncvzg_1qzqlhSpTjrW3idDw7AMxzTkMlYC29yrq-c3ho8EMuHNvZB4M1jlQhdvAWpo_hnfp/s320/news.png" /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;clear: both; "><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHSDOzF_37Qq3sMa0jYZkK3NDH6qhJV1eLA0XCMqbF6Hw6ihL36qwg00Z3isMauAV8sWAx9Ukm1yc563UBTGPHgMn4ybtu2G5GBEH9QVsnlyE-Kc6Mc0tUX-kwm3NqqmiQrRF5Zr7K63v/s320/pic3.png" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center;clear: both; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBZfGSUB45GL7QlW3ayis5UZF8KEaRd-irYLzNsK2N0Cf7mFOOfKRsGoCEV9UorPDWtKrjUydujs-1b6LGgdthob1aQ69CQY_ig_6gVd4VqKlLV1PexMV14L7zWGGvma8Z5E7Qblwdc0hi/s320/ivy.png" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On Friday, we connected our first graders during a Skype Ivy + Bean party! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JTM_grhPizpDDMWjcid6mtFqRM-HMVpfLlS7ISRd3TSC26roIrlUQte6gZYAZGs6PvOZl2PksSTbYFJsSZNBZEZhxe8CkyIoEjhTTraTw9yN-63S0LCKk8XhFF0ifwuZyACPNvX25OA/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.08.38+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JTM_grhPizpDDMWjcid6mtFqRM-HMVpfLlS7ISRd3TSC26roIrlUQte6gZYAZGs6PvOZl2PksSTbYFJsSZNBZEZhxe8CkyIoEjhTTraTw9yN-63S0LCKk8XhFF0ifwuZyACPNvX25OA/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.08.38+PM.png" width="220" /></a></div>John's first graders practiced a short play called <a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/landing-pages/ivyandbean/pdfs/ivybean_script.pdf"><i>What a Scream</i> </a>throughout the week. They gave a wonderful performance during our party.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVmvxZA_7xQAw4ytZdR0ncZdCUxujuGozhUCnqEKW3NobrO1wQBhsEyRYp6d1uCPnbrF5bFbeda7xBg0OE-1YUhTMSUgeFO46vxQ5z_XfK5wRGfuaww8oYyPGi2p41F-rrwsU8nr3s2g/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.09.01+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVmvxZA_7xQAw4ytZdR0ncZdCUxujuGozhUCnqEKW3NobrO1wQBhsEyRYp6d1uCPnbrF5bFbeda7xBg0OE-1YUhTMSUgeFO46vxQ5z_XfK5wRGfuaww8oYyPGi2p41F-rrwsU8nr3s2g/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.09.01+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTx5nD-Udae5HgcFhpM86SrJHCc08GZN4Mas7KRs2d9Ibif6QRzhnIkdX_7I952nJsePpwydnh0KUXHoaq1HQ7E1YPjYc_Dr-5ZltivJFZO3CrwZ2Rbjf18qJSu2PIvTQRlsTEZeIMHg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.07.34+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTx5nD-Udae5HgcFhpM86SrJHCc08GZN4Mas7KRs2d9Ibif6QRzhnIkdX_7I952nJsePpwydnh0KUXHoaq1HQ7E1YPjYc_Dr-5ZltivJFZO3CrwZ2Rbjf18qJSu2PIvTQRlsTEZeIMHg/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.07.34+PM.png" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3rLpZwp8Asq5rdT9SkU9IXCAPN9SDFQwDzjqe-4meyi8zp4jZxED0dgAZWhzKhujR0iPxDueCsW4rUOa67S8zRPqy-obKbgZjySYI_OfcyjQ3v-tXsI1iwM7M_M2S-KmVdgvtcWBho5R/s320/Picture1.png" /></div><div><br /></div>Next, we played<a href="http://picturebookmonth.com/"> Picture Book Month</a> Bingo. Since we are also celebrating picture books during November, we thought it would be fun to integrate that into our party by creating a Bingo game to play together.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2U-XA_ymegv99PrMHSNqMbJw_G9_tF8FZHhF2o3WD5OpCE6H9ucpm5CO2lti0LqGpqRmvMkwC9MX_XZckHbZWVUHueYZkH_K3EwgKdQdVIw8RAWPYfuL3bVIPK22sd9M0S1L0uM0nN2w/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.08.04+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2U-XA_ymegv99PrMHSNqMbJw_G9_tF8FZHhF2o3WD5OpCE6H9ucpm5CO2lti0LqGpqRmvMkwC9MX_XZckHbZWVUHueYZkH_K3EwgKdQdVIw8RAWPYfuL3bVIPK22sd9M0S1L0uM0nN2w/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.08.04+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We all had a GREAT time finding our favorite picture book characters on our Bingo cards. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzyz0gdpY7j5jQ4gQt7JrDlS15fi2BsT9pZcGNuXm-4ckz3Cc7nyXj52nNIwQaqWAZvomZ8z0cBXnyDRK5Tj94v4AOk8e8nyKCkir5H95wJnNR0FQETqr5_CBF-QxmiJoEXDDGSiL2Vw/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.07.08+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzyz0gdpY7j5jQ4gQt7JrDlS15fi2BsT9pZcGNuXm-4ckz3Cc7nyXj52nNIwQaqWAZvomZ8z0cBXnyDRK5Tj94v4AOk8e8nyKCkir5H95wJnNR0FQETqr5_CBF-QxmiJoEXDDGSiL2Vw/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.07.08+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Our others classes also had fun playing Bingo as well.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWbwNNcWO3enSSf-ffOWk90MNjLhQX2lep8C5_SZDb6XtL_3iGA2tDiYP-7qJFR9zUQDGLTX8CcKmBGtQAftgHmIzsy1x4F9sLwRN30gZnThmyn7sKREIn07BkgnqM0sxhlmjHQbl8Gs/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.05.13+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWbwNNcWO3enSSf-ffOWk90MNjLhQX2lep8C5_SZDb6XtL_3iGA2tDiYP-7qJFR9zUQDGLTX8CcKmBGtQAftgHmIzsy1x4F9sLwRN30gZnThmyn7sKREIn07BkgnqM0sxhlmjHQbl8Gs/s320/Screen+shot+2011-11-20+at+7.05.13+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>We had a SUPER time celebrating Ivy + Bean Day.<br /><br />We hope you did too.Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-40233869426561956312011-10-23T19:38:00.000-07:002011-10-23T19:56:46.382-07:00Two Libraries, One Voice Webinar - 11/17/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSf7v9-2-tbjjTcmcd3IPm_yQ3aTW7OFX4O9ZrFwk8_ZYzOdu5xFi4vU4NnmMbwCFpEJya7Cvuxy5h8AJES2HiiCBJ_bTf2xyux2y3_ncgV51LWazA-le6krInPajVDinSqXOFkJRyM_B/s1600/webinar.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSf7v9-2-tbjjTcmcd3IPm_yQ3aTW7OFX4O9ZrFwk8_ZYzOdu5xFi4vU4NnmMbwCFpEJya7Cvuxy5h8AJES2HiiCBJ_bTf2xyux2y3_ncgV51LWazA-le6krInPajVDinSqXOFkJRyM_B/s320/webinar.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666883069958641506" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sponsor:<a href="http://islmawebinars.wikispaces.com/millerschumacher10"> </a></span><a href="http://islmawebinars.wikispaces.com/millerschumacher10">Illinois School Library Media Association </a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When:</span> Thursday, November 17th - 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. CST<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where:</span> Click <a href="http://%20https//sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.0295898401B56E076889FF9B855D44">here</a> to connect<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Program Description</span></span>: Even though Shannon Miller and John Schumacher’s students live 338 miles apart, they connect multiple times throughout the week. This session explores the collaborative tools they use to connect their students with each other and schools around the world. They will share stories and provide tips on how to make collaboration work.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="file:///C:/Users/John/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-51.png" alt="" /></div>Mr. Schuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04065363784663641593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-68898324528310184212011-10-12T09:39:00.000-07:002011-10-12T09:40:29.968-07:00School Library Journal's Trailee Awards<div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><u></u></span></div><div></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxaYAMB-4yasXm4RldSBPcooVioisqwmtkTuGGnt5V9v-nhN7NFnj1vEbSHTPiUIzqgwS3rAP9T43_p2THC6AhngPacGhls6Dpl6LTclrwZS8RiJ92SL7lMk9wP8Oc9dkc3fyTyTZ1zCk/s320/Trailee_logo.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662644817139352466" /><div>It's time for you and your students to vote for your favorite book trailers. Voting opens today and ends on December 16, 2011. The winners will be announced at <a href="http://www.alamidwinter.org/">ALA Midwinter</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="http://reg.accelacomm.com/servlet/Frs.frs?Script=/LP/51468603/reg&Context=START"></a></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><a href="http://reg.accelacomm.com/servlet/Frs.frs?Script=/LP/51468603/reg&Context=START"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitgtG36AAbyN7rCxzgHip6Or-i50M0Go92YwA2-PDQldNOdlWEpr5XyQrrOrNeVlL3juuJFPfbzzmZVsZlr9z1VScuPw7HPjLRe5ZwHSZPvfMKd1_jWy2Kz_ukqWatMip6xQGRFyl73NY/s320/Trailee_click.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662644826602943138" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 70px; " /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></div><div></div></div>Mr. Schuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04065363784663641593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-33659242768533389062011-09-23T06:46:00.000-07:002011-09-23T06:47:52.751-07:00What a FUN Week Celebrating DOT Day!<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="240" id="vp1CTF6J" width="432"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1316784841&f=CTF6JLGlvmRFNqnyN6sgmA&d=282&m=a&r=360p+480p&volume=100&start_res=480p&i=m&options="></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed id="vp1CTF6J" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1316784841&f=CTF6JLGlvmRFNqnyN6sgmA&d=282&m=a&r=360p+480p&volume=100&start_res=480p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object><br />
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What a wonderful week at Brook Forest and Van Meter Schools! <br />
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All week long we celebrated<a href="http://fablevisionlearning.com/dotday/"> International Dot Day</a>. The students and teachers showed their creativity and let their voice be heard by making their mark in the library, art rooms, and between our two schools. <br />
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We loved sharing <i>The Dot </i>by Peter H. Reynolds with our students. Teachers, students, guest readers, and others read the book, along with us, to all of the students within our schools. It was so much fun seeing beautiful watercolored, coffee filter dots being made; amazing iPad art being created and shared, and our "red (read) carpets" fill up with hundreds of marks and signatures.<br />
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In the art rooms at Van Meter, a GIANT DOT was created and signed by over 600 people within the building. The students created 2-D and 3-D art work making their MARK! This art work is now decorating the libraries and hallways of our schools. <br />
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On Thursday afternoon, we also welcomed two amazing authors into our schools via a Skype conference call. Erica Perl, author of <i>Dotty </i>and Chicken Butt, and Eric Wight, author of the Frankie Pickle series, shared with our students and answered questions. It was so much fun.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmeRzxlJGco8Y6LnabksL924AjIzZ_is6vkjX1RuOSDHscO40z46M0jrutjs0CF43RM5zm0ibn3fQAtXIKlCliV9KgNcXIrVoH-bwT4yEDUZmg9SOrX1mWby5xXgjWSYs3rOlUujqqNo/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-23+at+9.40.34+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmeRzxlJGco8Y6LnabksL924AjIzZ_is6vkjX1RuOSDHscO40z46M0jrutjs0CF43RM5zm0ibn3fQAtXIKlCliV9KgNcXIrVoH-bwT4yEDUZmg9SOrX1mWby5xXgjWSYs3rOlUujqqNo/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-23+at+9.40.34+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Shannon's 6th grade technology literacy created Google SketchUp Candy Lands and Candy Lands created from DOT boxes. They were amazing. We Skyped with John's students so the Van Meter creators could present their projects to them. After the presentation, all of the students voted on their favorite Candy Land using the <a href="http://vmcandylandcompetition.wikispaces.com/">VM Candy Land Competition Wiki</a>. Over 500 people around the world have now voted.....VOTING ends today so please cast you vote on the wiki too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiLkTAJedPHeD1XOrmWj58L3XEPB_fEpCehip2ianx4fJOuKWTUiFy3Phfqap4Kv7tsPucLtb48kgyejFNiYj7-pnT5jlnpSryRNoMMmlcN4QvWp1vdWM3apkFO2FUmODAxGc1JPsEHI/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-23+at+9.26.35+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiLkTAJedPHeD1XOrmWj58L3XEPB_fEpCehip2ianx4fJOuKWTUiFy3Phfqap4Kv7tsPucLtb48kgyejFNiYj7-pnT5jlnpSryRNoMMmlcN4QvWp1vdWM3apkFO2FUmODAxGc1JPsEHI/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-23+at+9.26.35+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyDDyCiy01k7Rs16Uanz-KmReMkwtpJAiy5kQim_TP0zmohe55rhXFqSEw9gf8j7hyphenhyphenBzUz8otQtjaQczHti_5I7iIGxpQB4oVvEAf91jQwFPml15I5cEEk72QQVybqJqfwQIy5s1cpMQ0/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-23+at+9.26.17+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyDDyCiy01k7Rs16Uanz-KmReMkwtpJAiy5kQim_TP0zmohe55rhXFqSEw9gf8j7hyphenhyphenBzUz8otQtjaQczHti_5I7iIGxpQB4oVvEAf91jQwFPml15I5cEEk72QQVybqJqfwQIy5s1cpMQ0/s400/Screen+shot+2011-09-23+at+9.26.17+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our celebration was mentioned in Publishers's Weekly this week in the article "<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/48792-in-brief-september-22.html">Kids Make Their Mark on International Dot Day.</a>" John's student will be so excited to see himself on the site with his iPad Dot artwork too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We both agree that our Dot Day (Week) Celebration was the best event we have ever had together....although we say that every time. :) Next year we will be so excited to celebrate too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But until then, we will empower our students every day to make their mark on the world! </div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-46287241802984179852011-09-10T16:24:00.000-07:002011-09-10T16:51:43.327-07:00Next Up....."DOT DOT" Celebration!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4EUA2H1iTUkSZo5LyoIAyFDXHfQWz1lh7EXjwcQhOpR0DemGy3aRrsnLJp8zBBD8r-FRUs_d_wszpPYypG3EqNOWhyz81-_yliCVZct3ylbvEPhIZnH9MDqpavsFmPn9w-p9slGrDGJA/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-07+at+11.20.29+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4EUA2H1iTUkSZo5LyoIAyFDXHfQWz1lh7EXjwcQhOpR0DemGy3aRrsnLJp8zBBD8r-FRUs_d_wszpPYypG3EqNOWhyz81-_yliCVZct3ylbvEPhIZnH9MDqpavsFmPn9w-p9slGrDGJA/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-07+at+11.20.29+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are so excited! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This week we will be celebrating <a href="http://fablevisionlearning.com/dotday/">"International DOT Day</a>" together. DOT Day is on September 15th, which is when <i>The Dot</i> by Peter H. Reynolds was first published in 2003. On this day, Peter and <a href="http://fablevisionlearning.com/">FableVision Learning</a> challenges people all over the world to "make your own mark and see where it takes you." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We have been doing a lot at our schools to get ready for this super fun day. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpazH4_QChsp2mr4YGDxkSiSRU98lOys_t0DmLaojpJsm72AglUs85VZrUvW40FvFXLPKdffL99ykE1l6c0x_HOV4PmBhx05muyuUGax-Cq8Ea1QPyXTJsBhb6KpOgn0aPymlL1mh2r8/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-08+at+9.01.10+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpazH4_QChsp2mr4YGDxkSiSRU98lOys_t0DmLaojpJsm72AglUs85VZrUvW40FvFXLPKdffL99ykE1l6c0x_HOV4PmBhx05muyuUGax-Cq8Ea1QPyXTJsBhb6KpOgn0aPymlL1mh2r8/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-08+at+9.01.10+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The students are welcomed into John's library at Brook Forest Elementary with this amazing display. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8LwxCLF0Fwj5ceUMPsqkc-x_S05dEOkDnen2OkPp4IcPuX2j2tzpjbVgs6YEpPLe2dFxrzcP1GfTTirNM9RDLgXODH3QKmwjMjgg5FRuaabURIjEhfPY9Rc518ev4-SD0YfPXVrycnvo/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+5.36.34+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8LwxCLF0Fwj5ceUMPsqkc-x_S05dEOkDnen2OkPp4IcPuX2j2tzpjbVgs6YEpPLe2dFxrzcP1GfTTirNM9RDLgXODH3QKmwjMjgg5FRuaabURIjEhfPY9Rc518ev4-SD0YfPXVrycnvo/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+5.36.34+PM.png" width="233" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And can learn more about Peter and FableVision here. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7OVzHAJYkZUE42hgcCoS4Ga9tU9NGQPDVwyQPWh3Ea7haRWS3ZSBiqPygjL-wDdaKZ488v7f69qLb8SADjxNKhnxTt7yMPbwohrhzhJRsfkdkkdy1HuGi8BH9xAnvvjEtynesoT3LUbk/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.50.38+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7OVzHAJYkZUE42hgcCoS4Ga9tU9NGQPDVwyQPWh3Ea7haRWS3ZSBiqPygjL-wDdaKZ488v7f69qLb8SADjxNKhnxTt7yMPbwohrhzhJRsfkdkkdy1HuGi8BH9xAnvvjEtynesoT3LUbk/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.50.38+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Shannon and her students created this new display in the Van Meter Elementary Library and they are enjoying all of the new books they added to their collection too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCRQGfCXev1ipzNPieRtRjzfTfknUaP7SemayfHI7nLiHPW5gCMsfqI4b_j7xi7cjM5izNZWJO8LDF8vyAEtb1y5tvuzo7ZM1QljEiU6nycziZ1ZDFwFdb_SgkYkF08C4yb6-h6Jj9iE/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.51.37+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCRQGfCXev1ipzNPieRtRjzfTfknUaP7SemayfHI7nLiHPW5gCMsfqI4b_j7xi7cjM5izNZWJO8LDF8vyAEtb1y5tvuzo7ZM1QljEiU6nycziZ1ZDFwFdb_SgkYkF08C4yb6-h6Jj9iE/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.51.37+PM.png" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2waTuTPsNBnpL3hkvUuCtL8bq8llyTxOE8KPhsCk9k4kLSSBkeD85QlzB_3TKZT4V7KNeyMTBQYY41UKSAy8-EOojIobFsgtiQXykLhuHoaWcXQy1k0LNAINpgaOTHL-TwuX2fE52dc/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-07+at+10.50.42+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2waTuTPsNBnpL3hkvUuCtL8bq8llyTxOE8KPhsCk9k4kLSSBkeD85QlzB_3TKZT4V7KNeyMTBQYY41UKSAy8-EOojIobFsgtiQXykLhuHoaWcXQy1k0LNAINpgaOTHL-TwuX2fE52dc/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-07+at+10.50.42+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last week, a big group of Shannon's 7th and 8th graders created beautiful DOT art work outside. She wrote about this day on the Van Meter VOICE blog.... <a href="http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/2011/09/today-students-made-their-markon-each.html">Today The Students Made Their Mark....On Each Other, The World, and ME!</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_enHhbD9R7NS5xCcK6Pdog7NiNDuxBWIWZLw9986kT68cv6_0mfAANt0z3pabShsGcHsmuLHQyxl1_xXcgzByj8FOSHJTHpGh85lVIW-Ha36wtuYfk_PxHUSPERwxxT4zdKTX5tkBVtY/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-09+at+11.53.58+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_enHhbD9R7NS5xCcK6Pdog7NiNDuxBWIWZLw9986kT68cv6_0mfAANt0z3pabShsGcHsmuLHQyxl1_xXcgzByj8FOSHJTHpGh85lVIW-Ha36wtuYfk_PxHUSPERwxxT4zdKTX5tkBVtY/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-09+at+11.53.58+PM.png" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">She created signs for DOT DAY on the library and art room doors. The students created signs throughout the school with the banners. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyqN71vId0CuSimJ1H_bOsbRDzg-BPCOJtaTEUT8NDXv56G93l3l8DsoKol7TwBiYUNnsf7LcE887T_o3aypYp2y2IWaHTa326s3iwOOIipD3Ub9njqpEqyIkovZHh0GQP9jqKpLI0FI/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+6.41.54+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyqN71vId0CuSimJ1H_bOsbRDzg-BPCOJtaTEUT8NDXv56G93l3l8DsoKol7TwBiYUNnsf7LcE887T_o3aypYp2y2IWaHTa326s3iwOOIipD3Ub9njqpEqyIkovZHh0GQP9jqKpLI0FI/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+6.41.54+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And John's students started decorating paper with their DOTS too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To celebrate in the libraries this week, we have planned a lot of literacy and art activities for the students. We are going to be painting and drawing with watercolors, finger paints, crayons, colored pencils, and sidewalk chalk. There is even an activity involving coffee filters, markers, and water bottles...Oh my. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQ-IG1rLUbZVcwSMM915DfvhDlPU50oSoyfU2XnOQjT19S7pcbEDH_B5lLchvAI_uAiOKzV3_gAW7HpKRv_ExRZqI0iy0f5PiwohNmV_CSJ5_5cyAfz06Q2fQopmf1SHMwyKnKu9L3bo/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+4.05.19+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQ-IG1rLUbZVcwSMM915DfvhDlPU50oSoyfU2XnOQjT19S7pcbEDH_B5lLchvAI_uAiOKzV3_gAW7HpKRv_ExRZqI0iy0f5PiwohNmV_CSJ5_5cyAfz06Q2fQopmf1SHMwyKnKu9L3bo/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+4.05.19+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our kids are going to create DOTS using the iPads and drawing apps. We will be sharing these creations with each other over Skype. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi661K_WozruY6QW9nHXXGXce7T5JSpNheLtv-ULDLQZB5Hgpd766HSyqPAK-plMLltHKYP_oj_MrfiRHL6i_YziPtXNeDUlB6hmCr2DAUFCe7lOVhgSk_rSYG2gw8YlFlRnhjtOPtrH_I/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+4.05.35+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi661K_WozruY6QW9nHXXGXce7T5JSpNheLtv-ULDLQZB5Hgpd766HSyqPAK-plMLltHKYP_oj_MrfiRHL6i_YziPtXNeDUlB6hmCr2DAUFCe7lOVhgSk_rSYG2gw8YlFlRnhjtOPtrH_I/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+4.05.35+PM.png" /></a></div>John had a great idea today.....ROLL OUT the "Read" carpet for the week and have our students add dots throughout the week.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilI1mu4yInlZ3nzA3AgkCqSG6YN4SFHk_BsjEXaL6N8fk_SWUFnedAuPu-UH7nKQwOpnNnEaBKH0bB-RDpgdO60EnIlgNBS40hee6NLOF7KZcKsulSOWOU9LQVJp7709_2Wwd2zFCstmg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+4.07.37+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilI1mu4yInlZ3nzA3AgkCqSG6YN4SFHk_BsjEXaL6N8fk_SWUFnedAuPu-UH7nKQwOpnNnEaBKH0bB-RDpgdO60EnIlgNBS40hee6NLOF7KZcKsulSOWOU9LQVJp7709_2Wwd2zFCstmg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+4.07.37+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And even our students are planning things.....like Alissa. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvnjE-z-fJ89JkkU903SOkXkY9lLB8UPJeZ1vG4WneWfYCXx3L7F_nOtPFKkGG-XUjWe5rm8AykUF07UeG_GkC6o8Whj34DfZ_K-mgtecyb-zjeMU4k4dua90I4F51RBinpMtBq16lF94/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+6.16.14+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvnjE-z-fJ89JkkU903SOkXkY9lLB8UPJeZ1vG4WneWfYCXx3L7F_nOtPFKkGG-XUjWe5rm8AykUF07UeG_GkC6o8Whj34DfZ_K-mgtecyb-zjeMU4k4dua90I4F51RBinpMtBq16lF94/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+6.16.14+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We will be sharing<a href="http://www.peterhreynolds.com/dot/"> <i>The Dot</i> </a>and other special books like<a href="http://www.ericaperl.com/dotty/"> <i>Dotty</i> by Erica Perl</a>, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFxfr5Ax-7w5HdsH4t7T3udI8BS4Yrt7SiVAPw6wXg79VI-G7R_QRawaHr5ScJcCQb82vp-RQ78tjgPMkrqH-ijRjQY7WdNelWlK2PKMPoiKM52dDq-dOF5b8Kph7An4_rWqjg4prKOs/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+6.20.02+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFxfr5Ax-7w5HdsH4t7T3udI8BS4Yrt7SiVAPw6wXg79VI-G7R_QRawaHr5ScJcCQb82vp-RQ78tjgPMkrqH-ijRjQY7WdNelWlK2PKMPoiKM52dDq-dOF5b8Kph7An4_rWqjg4prKOs/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+6.20.02+PM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/dotbypatriciaintriago"><i>Dot </i>by Patricia Intriago</a> over Skype with our students. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And of course a DOT Day celebration would not be complete without DOTS for everyone. :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ6NvMHCzwj15muYCS78YYQRqAQf9JdNEVpnGxgO6kyN9PZHL-4AzgxmhhkoxDxbUZrr0YdRYMYh7E5257IULKKC3VHd-qy6ARCYck7_Fazbh11Q08jUtOMrz4hE16N4tRX-sOWOCjeMg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+3.05.57+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ6NvMHCzwj15muYCS78YYQRqAQf9JdNEVpnGxgO6kyN9PZHL-4AzgxmhhkoxDxbUZrr0YdRYMYh7E5257IULKKC3VHd-qy6ARCYck7_Fazbh11Q08jUtOMrz4hE16N4tRX-sOWOCjeMg/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-10+at+3.05.57+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So just as the sweet character Vashti learns in <i>The Dot</i>, anyone can make a mark on the world. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This week in Oak Brook, Illinois and Van Meter, Iowa, we will celebrate the marks of every single person in our schools and the uniqueness of them all. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>We cannot wait to hear how you are going to celebrate DOT Day too!Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-12331940009881295052011-09-04T14:25:00.000-07:002011-09-04T22:58:22.985-07:00Deadline Extended for SLJ's Trailee Awards<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5btdmLh41YUoSJ0E1cWdWuWIibfRZn_1dXq0Hv0JFX6cDpO0SgomrcafPTpBlT9VVt8UkD1va5AaAFY8tEhxzkAvlGkrJ7If97iPS026zbAOJHWKU_VOjHaF3pN1gM83uTRAtlB_c6Yj/s1600/Trailee_logo.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648619777600559698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5btdmLh41YUoSJ0E1cWdWuWIibfRZn_1dXq0Hv0JFX6cDpO0SgomrcafPTpBlT9VVt8UkD1va5AaAFY8tEhxzkAvlGkrJ7If97iPS026zbAOJHWKU_VOjHaF3pN1gM83uTRAtlB_c6Yj/s320/Trailee_logo.gif" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 225px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <br />
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Please do not send actual video files via email-they will not be accepted</span></span></i><strong><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></i></strong><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Include the name of the video, the url of where the video is available online</span></span></i><strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">,</span></span></em></strong><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> the video's creator(s), the book's author and the title of the book featured in the video, along with publisher and copyright date. 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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the things we are most anxious about.....connecting our students in Illinois and Iowa through new projects and learning experiences. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTB2K9kjJvLBKAVknPObezJh-8fsbzZtn5gyOKZaLosG3m70biox2nZ-JweDNRFXmOzhWpYqDSFzSABKEFs8rZODVc6_VNZw7CQgEhT2b2hkvfn5Ialp5c1fTIyP9GzZsaaO8d3zkT0ZU/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.52.18+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTB2K9kjJvLBKAVknPObezJh-8fsbzZtn5gyOKZaLosG3m70biox2nZ-JweDNRFXmOzhWpYqDSFzSABKEFs8rZODVc6_VNZw7CQgEhT2b2hkvfn5Ialp5c1fTIyP9GzZsaaO8d3zkT0ZU/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.52.18+PM.png" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today, we connected our 1st graders. Last year, when they were kindergarten students, we connected for "<a href="http://twolibrariesonevoice.blogspot.com/2011/03/van-meter-brook-forest-celebrated-dr.html">Read Across America Day"with a birthday party for Dr. Seuss.</a> They were so excited to see their friends again. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">John showed the video from his<a href="http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/2011/07/mr-schus-reading-road-trip.html"> Reading Road Trip </a>over the summer. All of our students loved watching as John traveled throughout the United States with<a href="http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Eric-Wight/46849303"> Eric Wight's</a> adorable book character Frankie Pickle. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3h3JUKpkTjIzOtSneYOkHjCfi5O2uodAuo6N_EXEXTFJNxzx4pUt03o0oIbrvLwMLefh_LVZIxsxxndcQbhXUHAJFpmfxQeINhtF7B7oKEKI93APwn62L1FRA-u8brLYirRS9I_FgcC8/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.50.05+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3h3JUKpkTjIzOtSneYOkHjCfi5O2uodAuo6N_EXEXTFJNxzx4pUt03o0oIbrvLwMLefh_LVZIxsxxndcQbhXUHAJFpmfxQeINhtF7B7oKEKI93APwn62L1FRA-u8brLYirRS9I_FgcC8/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.50.05+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first graders in Van Meter were especially excited when Frankie Pickle showed up in Van Meter (even though Shannon is still sad she missed John and Donna on their journey back to Chicago). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXu-e1Jo7Y5xV7GSziGM0TMQ6ftDy5TVRXYHuGt9O7d3HSGpSWK31qUuRm44HH9Mwf7zDOO1gSm9OVYkFzEX_oe0siqrG5NahNmX7ggAj9kzO4zlxu2rs_sxN1ScThdfC-GKVWxIazUk/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.50.38+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXu-e1Jo7Y5xV7GSziGM0TMQ6ftDy5TVRXYHuGt9O7d3HSGpSWK31qUuRm44HH9Mwf7zDOO1gSm9OVYkFzEX_oe0siqrG5NahNmX7ggAj9kzO4zlxu2rs_sxN1ScThdfC-GKVWxIazUk/s320/Screen+shot+2011-09-02+at+9.50.38+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Right around the corner on September 15th we will celebrate FableVision Learning's <a href="http://fablevisionlearning.com/dotday/"> International Dot Day</a>. On this day, the students and teachers within our schools will leave their own personal mark on the day and on the world! We cannot wait to spread creativity, fun, and friendship on this day......and throughout the year.<br />
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So as you can see, we have a very busy month. But this is only the beginning of the best year yet! Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-1388127491936705232011-08-27T18:28:00.000-07:002011-08-27T18:28:34.401-07:00Happy Birthday, Mr. Schu!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/L-vMz0fGTr0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Today on Bookmark's, The First Book Blog, a bunch of John's friends wished him a very Happy 30th Birthday! <br />
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Erica Perl wrote the post <a href="http://blog.firstbook.org/2011/08/27/happy-birthday-mr-schu/">Happy Birthday, Mr. Schu</a>. And the incredibly FUN YouTube video, with lots of special Happy Birthday wishes from authors and friends was included too. <br />
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I have known John now for almost a year. He is one of my dearest friends, my teaching partner, and mentor. And there is no one that I know that celebrates literacy more than him. <br />
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So lets all wish him the very best of birthdays by <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/book/site/Donation2?1340.donation=form1&df_id=1340&__utma=1.1110876981.1313435591.1313435591.1313435591.1&__utmb=1.0.10.1314386429&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1313435591.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none%252">donating to First Book in his name. </a><br />
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<b>Happy 30th Birthday John! </b>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-6148128973420423632011-08-13T18:50:00.000-07:002011-08-14T17:18:30.815-07:00We Are Excited To Be NEW FableVision Learning Ambassadors!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNt_nWNY6__LE1T6AtYimSc7XeQ4wqHImot_RBmjynJZq-MSpX3xj1A8ogfoExtyVXmWjb99J8mINB7XkW7ttvQM3svZRgXf-1yfoGqPsTGZCyEW4Fh_Dn8AJlW03nUU1EettZNI08nLA/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+5.57.41+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNt_nWNY6__LE1T6AtYimSc7XeQ4wqHImot_RBmjynJZq-MSpX3xj1A8ogfoExtyVXmWjb99J8mINB7XkW7ttvQM3svZRgXf-1yfoGqPsTGZCyEW4Fh_Dn8AJlW03nUU1EettZNI08nLA/s400/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+5.57.41+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We love this statement found on Fablevision's blog<a href="http://fablevisionlearning.com/blog/"> The LiveWire</a>. These are all qualities that we hope to bring to our library and instill in the students and teachers we work with every day. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So when <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/tjshay">Terry Shay</a>, Lead Ambassador for FableVision Learning, asked us to be part of the Fablevision family this last week by being FableVision Learning Ambassadors, we were thrilled! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdVpFQf1UHUjHrcq1RuQJfSD6INFeRha1N0Mmfq9lYEwpQDVI2adbh-oMXP1oWvipvuxRtjJ0J_NQyEJQ-1VnHGOz2-w0N6pJYYkHjM_v9ScLvP1zO-P_oZ_9Xy27calrkYkXGSeqJAo/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+5.48.29+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdVpFQf1UHUjHrcq1RuQJfSD6INFeRha1N0Mmfq9lYEwpQDVI2adbh-oMXP1oWvipvuxRtjJ0J_NQyEJQ-1VnHGOz2-w0N6pJYYkHjM_v9ScLvP1zO-P_oZ_9Xy27calrkYkXGSeqJAo/s320/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+5.48.29+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/peterhreynolds">Peter H. Reynolds</a> and his wonderful team at FableVision Learning are committed to helping all learners reach their full potential.
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<br /><a href="http://fablevisionlearning.com/index.html">As the FableVision Learning site states</a>, "We're on a mission to make every classroom a center of innovation and creativity. Our software, professional development, and films help teachers inspire kids to develop essential 21st century skills and move their lives, and world, to a better place."
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<br />We would like to start out our FableVision Learning Ambassadorship by sharing some of our favorite FableVision resources with you.
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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYccE4XiNHmNfANImWiA-gidJlhuZIQerXQiL8gp7cXMq2gP9sUu18wkweDWvqVp7KKIEU7TvsieX28hMJxWjG_-A0BN7dZI0gdzKMD-O-h92F4pEks_NRjs1lo4oECdXlSgFRnRRvB14/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.18.28+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYccE4XiNHmNfANImWiA-gidJlhuZIQerXQiL8gp7cXMq2gP9sUu18wkweDWvqVp7KKIEU7TvsieX28hMJxWjG_-A0BN7dZI0gdzKMD-O-h92F4pEks_NRjs1lo4oECdXlSgFRnRRvB14/s320/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.18.28+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.fablevision.com/place/">FableVision Learning Place </a> is a website your students will LOVE to visit. There is a library, post office, school, cafe, Fable TV, Fable Museum, Fable Radio and more. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqH2DfToiFJ9C0Us2oteG9tWasM1CQDwrfHX1QNQXsQxiCfhvH_iU0i0BHNT0c3UMKFGqeLUAGHGPz_6JKcm4gbG_dQpxwP9yOhcDUROHHjJ5DpPVy7TEM8e_oxNv2PZrdsRnQbrpJjOQ/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.41.45+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqH2DfToiFJ9C0Us2oteG9tWasM1CQDwrfHX1QNQXsQxiCfhvH_iU0i0BHNT0c3UMKFGqeLUAGHGPz_6JKcm4gbG_dQpxwP9yOhcDUROHHjJ5DpPVy7TEM8e_oxNv2PZrdsRnQbrpJjOQ/s320/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.41.45+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On <a href="http://fablevisionlearning.com/northstar/">The North Star page </a> you can read the story, share, and find wonderful activities to go along with this book. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuXiVOtLO3zvnTRGmVWB8Yw2yQGuft1Sz2MisZGtqZszgN6Hoq-T08hEzslaMn3oviQhhJzvsJe-v1NeV6_H5GiCHcyj_wkniOnta4ppDFc1t8aVRL2AlY11g0oA1K_s1cLFEEZclmN8/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-08-07+at+9.35.36+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuXiVOtLO3zvnTRGmVWB8Yw2yQGuft1Sz2MisZGtqZszgN6Hoq-T08hEzslaMn3oviQhhJzvsJe-v1NeV6_H5GiCHcyj_wkniOnta4ppDFc1t8aVRL2AlY11g0oA1K_s1cLFEEZclmN8/s320/Screen+shot+2011-08-07+at+9.35.36+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On September 15, 2011 we will be celebrating <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Dot-Day/141533819216932">International Dot Day</a> together and with others around the world. Peter's classic book <i>THE DOT </i>was released on September 15, 2003. <i>THE DOT </i>has inspired readers to "Make your mark and see where this will take you." This will be a special day to celebrate one of our favorite books and also the unique qualities of all of us and impact we have on the world. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgld1pmrH0DqcUjfiCHxcpG-kdnBEeZuzNg1sVdrySBfGbbE-ei7eRv-f0MZfky7auURwRbYdBeM2C2car7nvAuRgw1DvaaxbwdNnAKEIAvaULy4jmMXigw7PyaMeXMEoQ0D-THa2EMTsY/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.20.14+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgld1pmrH0DqcUjfiCHxcpG-kdnBEeZuzNg1sVdrySBfGbbE-ei7eRv-f0MZfky7auURwRbYdBeM2C2car7nvAuRgw1DvaaxbwdNnAKEIAvaULy4jmMXigw7PyaMeXMEoQ0D-THa2EMTsY/s320/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.20.14+PM.png" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When Shannon was in Boston a few weeks ago for <a href="http://blcconference.com/">November Learning BLC Conference,</a> she attended a reception that Peter and his colleagues hosted at <a href="http://www.fablevisionstudios.com/">FableVision Studio</a>. It was so inspiring to see the studio, meet other authors and creative developers, and of course visit with Peter, his brother <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/FableVision">Paul</a>, and the lovely Nicole Maher again. She met them all at ISTE in Philadelphia earlier in the summer so it was nice to catch up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75c7Y2tNG3SBk0Br0fD8B0EiilRJZffjmWAboTNhM7SQm82SoCb7DZ1-7BqLoxOHhka-Fm1ixvrjWfuXv8QCNX4hXzcQROGDdOE-ih3y41ARuR7P2lCGBFX_99_a5E53VyhsorCsGiuw/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.57.56+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75c7Y2tNG3SBk0Br0fD8B0EiilRJZffjmWAboTNhM7SQm82SoCb7DZ1-7BqLoxOHhka-Fm1ixvrjWfuXv8QCNX4hXzcQROGDdOE-ih3y41ARuR7P2lCGBFX_99_a5E53VyhsorCsGiuw/s400/Screen+shot+2011-08-13+at+6.57.56+PM.png" width="307" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So as we head into this new adventure and a brand new school year, we hope to spread the same things that Peter and FableVision do each day. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Let your students be heard. Let them create. Let them make their mark on the world. Let them be themselves. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>
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<br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can follow FableVision Learning on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/fablelearn">@FableLearn</a> and the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/FableVisionLearning">FableVision Learning Facebook page.</a> </div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-49057950344064200362011-06-11T14:08:00.000-07:002011-06-11T14:30:16.145-07:00Presenting Our Summer Reading Program on TL Cafe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kOurb_CyFh9E_M16DXE-AVNdNOAQ_KhY0NZHBsDLO6fBAa9YRS5T6ID_mwxfwy3CFIRf0KlNFnHfsIhn73iPLN4PzXr61eK7T8JvLQEYaNoiMDROTFyZWGIhJnfWhziYXV0J8twuQ1Y/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-06-11+at+3.08.40+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kOurb_CyFh9E_M16DXE-AVNdNOAQ_KhY0NZHBsDLO6fBAa9YRS5T6ID_mwxfwy3CFIRf0KlNFnHfsIhn73iPLN4PzXr61eK7T8JvLQEYaNoiMDROTFyZWGIhJnfWhziYXV0J8twuQ1Y/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-06-11+at+3.08.40+PM.png" /></a></div><br />
On Monday, June 6th we were guests on TL Cafe. We were invited to talk about our Summer Reading Program we have developed for our students at Brook Forest and Van Meter schools. <br />
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As the <a href="http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/Home">TL Cafe Wiki </a>states, "<i>The TL Cafe is committed to creating transformative conversations about teacher-librarians, educational technology, and collaborative connections to facilitate meaningful and lifelong learning skills." </i>We were very excited to share our story and project with others. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the <a href="http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/June+6+-+DIY+Summer+Reading">Summer Reading page on the TL Cafe wiki</a> you can find important links and information. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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This is the <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/vmbulldogs.com/present/view?id=dd53xpn9_6g2r2r5dt&interval=5">Two Libraries, One Voice Google Presentation</a> that we created collaboratively. The links to our wiki, promotional Animoto video, Webpage summer resources sites, school Web site pages and other artifacts are included in the presentation. Please feel free to share this with others for summer reading programs and ideas. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank you for following us as our summer reading program begins. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We look forward to sharing our story throughout the summer of how, where, and what our students and school communities are reading and writing. </div><br />
It is definitely going to be one summer we will all remember.Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-38081881563115990252011-05-24T19:57:00.000-07:002011-05-30T21:35:19.088-07:00Where Will Van Meter and Brook Forest Read and Write This Summer?<div><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" height="240" id="vp1Qfbys" width="432"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1306292127&f=Qfbysa8PRJZ7WOKbKLhKNA&d=138&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options="><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed id="vp1Qfbys" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1306292127&f=Qfbysa8PRJZ7WOKbKLhKNA&d=138&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="240" width="432"></embed></object></div><div><br />
</div><div>Summer break is almost here for us and we have big plans to share with everyone. </div><div><br />
</div><div>This summer we are coming together to celebrate where we all read and write. Through sharing photographs of crazy and silly places we are reading and writing and communicating in our summer reading Edmodo groups, we will make this a summer to remember. </div><div><br />
</div><div>And the SUPER GREAT NEWS.....You can learn more about our program on TL Virtual Cafe June 6th at 7:00pm CST. The program entitled <a href="http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/June+6+-+DIY+Summer+Reading">DIY Summer Reading List</a> will feature ideas, planning tips, and other exciting stories of how we created our program and inspired our students to read and write throughout the summer. </div><div><br />
</div><div>We hope you will be able to join us. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Also, you can read more about it on our <a href="http://wherewereadthissummer.pbworks.com/w/page/40230999/Where-Van-Meter-and-Brook-Forest-Read-and-Wrote-this-Summer">Where Van Meter and Brook Forest Read and Wrote This Summer wiki</a>. And share the Weblist we created entitled <a href="http://weblist.me/summer-reading">Summer Resources for Brook Forest and Van Meter School</a> with your students, parents, and others. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Happy Reading and Writing To You Summer Too! </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5RUize92WVkR-8JoyzmXfT6bVwAT5myLDlSZixPovhOCj3b7ay3JNRhS94Ayshr9uiweZcnnQrtiRyxt4Uv2rv33OjxzVhF5kEs85csUzjAMbtihi5tbVkWyq_-SB_w0HRarg-IRfCc/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-05-24+at+10.01.16+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610483935390697490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_5RUize92WVkR-8JoyzmXfT6bVwAT5myLDlSZixPovhOCj3b7ay3JNRhS94Ayshr9uiweZcnnQrtiRyxt4Uv2rv33OjxzVhF5kEs85csUzjAMbtihi5tbVkWyq_-SB_w0HRarg-IRfCc/s400/Screen+shot+2011-05-24+at+10.01.16+PM.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 271px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-25668760159568396222011-04-30T10:49:00.000-07:002011-04-30T11:07:39.980-07:00Celebrating Dia! With Friends<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jgSWRpyBMHPTbJDgodjY11PXMDbsAXWROn1i3eNwjlzhf-31G66jEfNjH7b3b1hhUBEcAimxTyvn9V0AZKd0FgMBBiztypjMCZh_8QgdhF89Ubmbm5dbsUIZuWIx-TVMchYZbV5bNYE/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.34.32+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 193px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jgSWRpyBMHPTbJDgodjY11PXMDbsAXWROn1i3eNwjlzhf-31G66jEfNjH7b3b1hhUBEcAimxTyvn9V0AZKd0FgMBBiztypjMCZh_8QgdhF89Ubmbm5dbsUIZuWIx-TVMchYZbV5bNYE/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.34.32+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601435653871784194" /></a><div><object id="vp16yCp7" width="432" height="240" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1304186246&f=6yCp7wYWRX5bflvarLw5OQ&d=165&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options="><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed id="vp16yCp7" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1304186246&f=6yCp7wYWRX5bflvarLw5OQ&d=165&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div>We celebrated El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day) at Oak Brook and Van Meter. To make the day extra special we invited the amazing <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/alybee930">Alyson Beecher</a>, principal at <a href="http://sanrafael.pasadenausd.org/modules/cms/announce.phtml?sessionid=07b86e634d068ff073e8468c1e649e56">San Rafael Elementary </a>in Pasadena, California to join us in our celebration.<br /><br />Dia is sponsored by ALA's (American Library Association) ALSC and celebrated on April 30th each year. As stated on the<a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/initiatives/diadelosninos/index.cfm"> website</a>,<br /><br />"El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), known as Día, is a celebration EVERY DAY of children, families, and reading that culminates every year on April 30. The celebration emphasizes the importance of advocating literacy for children of all linguistic and cultural backgrounds.<br /><br />El 30 de abril es una fecha muy significativa para los niños. Se celebra el día de los niños y de los libros. Esta celebración se conoce como El día de los niños/ El día de los libros, y celebra la alegría y las maravillas de la infancia y la importancia de los libros en nuestra vida."<br /><br />We celebrated by reading<a href="http://www.patmora.com/book_pages/bookfiesta.htm"> Book Fiesta! by Pat Mora</a>. The students took turns reading the Spanish and English parts of the book. It was so exciting listening to Alyson's sweet students at San Rafael read the book in Spanish. They practiced very hard and did a wonderful job reading the book. The students in Oak Brook read the pages from Book Fiesta together as San Rafael and Van Meter listened. Also, in Van Meter we had special readers when Antonio, Sylvia and Carmen Angel (whose father is from Cuba) read the book to everyone in Spanish.<br /><br />It was so special to have everyone come together as a community celebrating reading and friendship for the day.<div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGP56Be-KqIKFbYOHVFD8DmcO4oM9U3XLEQYAwrkyGoMKj1_ooEBHOUozwjwUasJCQJfcahz9D9zovS0l7uDx-Edu2yBDBSqkK6uCNMzpgGkkU3vJ0cU5BGMJAyTc1WiuAN1rJwpUR_so/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.48.16+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGP56Be-KqIKFbYOHVFD8DmcO4oM9U3XLEQYAwrkyGoMKj1_ooEBHOUozwjwUasJCQJfcahz9D9zovS0l7uDx-Edu2yBDBSqkK6uCNMzpgGkkU3vJ0cU5BGMJAyTc1WiuAN1rJwpUR_so/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.48.16+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601435641685822114" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMmtS-Ni-wo5oCrw-zfb5PIsohyxo8ZJiU6rEzrM-Y28a6Qoc5zmtUMyCMLjCw_COshl1OwagYMqE996PBZkYrSP5bsysHoGX_wVlR-TKXLFS0U4h5LPeaD7-zhnfJSsvBioTrdlr_Ac/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.46.56+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMmtS-Ni-wo5oCrw-zfb5PIsohyxo8ZJiU6rEzrM-Y28a6Qoc5zmtUMyCMLjCw_COshl1OwagYMqE996PBZkYrSP5bsysHoGX_wVlR-TKXLFS0U4h5LPeaD7-zhnfJSsvBioTrdlr_Ac/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.46.56+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601435627501914418" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvsUZnUN7zkJ0d0LMk5P6qhyER1eznOxi0RYZakOTxL64-NTDIhyphenhyphenLt2bJuGjwws3T0UwtRqKqv5ZZqfXm-Bce1AtFH-ttyn0HiJSR7Og1HCWbEorOyDJKncJaqKzfWjSYAA0dQVk6GD8/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.48.30+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvsUZnUN7zkJ0d0LMk5P6qhyER1eznOxi0RYZakOTxL64-NTDIhyphenhyphenLt2bJuGjwws3T0UwtRqKqv5ZZqfXm-Bce1AtFH-ttyn0HiJSR7Og1HCWbEorOyDJKncJaqKzfWjSYAA0dQVk6GD8/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-30+at+12.48.30+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601435656447353378" /></a></div></div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-72703035968264983472011-04-14T20:25:00.001-07:002011-04-16T07:33:28.136-07:00Our Poem In Your Pocket Day Celebration<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><object id="vp1TEVdH" width="432" height="240" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1302911061&f=TEVdHBjyKerS9uRxz6OSog&d=278&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options="><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed id="vp1TEVdH" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1302911061&f=TEVdHBjyKerS9uRxz6OSog&d=278&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Keep a poem in your pocket</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and a picture in your head </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and you'll never feel lonely at night when you're in bed.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The little poem will sing to you </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the little picture bring to you </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a dozen dreams to dance to you </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">at night when you're in bed. </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">So--</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Keep a picture in your pocket </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and a poem in your head </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and you'll never be lonely at night when you're in bed.</span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">-Beatrice Schenk de Regniers<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yesterday Van Meter and Brook Forest celebrated national </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">Poem In Your Pocket Day</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"> </span>together. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Poem In Your Pocket Day is an easy day to celebrate--simply place your favorite poem in your pocket and share it throughout the day. You can share your poem in the classroom, in the hallway, in the lunchroom, on the playground....anywhere!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6gqWZ062ZfB975pUSwd7Tqt1lFPz80IM9n0RXhczH18cJmUZOBgDIKOPWJJet9StDu_pAXkUFxXyvA41oYt2x7r-c_tJWUFuEa32O2qPP5vjYNG6EGAy_fjg519g5tLgrCc5iKhx5L5CL/s1600/pocket.png"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6gqWZ062ZfB975pUSwd7Tqt1lFPz80IM9n0RXhczH18cJmUZOBgDIKOPWJJet9StDu_pAXkUFxXyvA41oYt2x7r-c_tJWUFuEa32O2qPP5vjYNG6EGAy_fjg519g5tLgrCc5iKhx5L5CL/s320/pocket.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595656274004973650" border="0" style="cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;">Our first step was to create signs and displays to make everyone aware of this special celebration. We also added the details of the day to our library blogs, websites and the wiki we created together for poetry month entitled<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"> </span><i><a href="http://whatwordsdoyousendoutintotheair2.wikispaces.com/Poem+In+Your+Pocket+Day+"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">What Words Do You Send Out Into The Air? </span></a></i>(which by the way will continue to grow throughout the month of April with the poetry projects we are creating in our libraries). </span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguov8yge4fJeJsOgsHNDSC68Tg0IrYrftYq0Bzt1Wvi-Kk5sp6cwg6eXg_bjUWGnGRZtzUdSThqIXv0SW9qGT8Zs64Qzlw1u3AmQpD5oJM2DMmMIEd3wT9sC848vv-3TflUywfJcT1y7A/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+3.35.37+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguov8yge4fJeJsOgsHNDSC68Tg0IrYrftYq0Bzt1Wvi-Kk5sp6cwg6eXg_bjUWGnGRZtzUdSThqIXv0SW9qGT8Zs64Qzlw1u3AmQpD5oJM2DMmMIEd3wT9sC848vv-3TflUywfJcT1y7A/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+3.35.37+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595911933117691282" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPL-5lV3W5Iqum83t-6mjZnRsdPD4Q6y7b-CLtGD86bKZi_WV_GI6I4_960_Ey179Ubfmg0NGgWae_XHWZU84nUIBZttHOOKVdFgkRrHsL3855614yuVsKV8YKfgcc7Cmy6WqdLQIVFD14/s320/pocket3.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">We encouraged students to write their own poems and gave them time to browse poetry collections. The poems were copied and given to each student for their pockets. They also practiced their poems and were ready to share on the special day.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq-aPN6qE3sgx8heE6LUWTl98mdnClxpWFlETi0x2bVYfXxcQ_25sYTcRw9EU7lQxSMFDWuB6lLmfKWdYGUBQuy5Nv39iRuAreG-ieFbacNHAxfR3GeGWnbKoC6O_c6atR2FhHp9I-WFg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.47.09+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq-aPN6qE3sgx8heE6LUWTl98mdnClxpWFlETi0x2bVYfXxcQ_25sYTcRw9EU7lQxSMFDWuB6lLmfKWdYGUBQuy5Nv39iRuAreG-ieFbacNHAxfR3GeGWnbKoC6O_c6atR2FhHp9I-WFg/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.47.09+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595930476715538114" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left; ">One day we were planning out our activities for Poem In Your Pocket Day and thought it would be fun to invite others to celebrate with us. We planned a similar event for <a href="http://litworld.org/worldreadaloudday/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">LitWorld</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">'</span></a>s <a href="http://www.blogger.com/<object%20id=%22vp1R8Gy0%22%20width=%22432%22%20height=%22240%22%20classid=%22clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000%22><param%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1302900674&f=R8Gy0VgOuwGwA7QjekceAQ&d=275&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options=%22></param><param%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22></param><param%20name=%22allowscriptaccess%22%20value=%22always%22></param><embed%20id=%22vp1R8Gy0%22%20src=%22http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1302900674&f=R8Gy0VgOuwGwA7QjekceAQ&d=275&m=a&r=360p&volume=100&start_res=360p&i=m&options=%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowscriptaccess=%22always%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22432%22%20height=%22240%22></embed></object>%20http://twolibrariesonevoice.blogspot.com/2011/03/day-we-all-came-together-to-celebrate.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">World Read Aloud Day</span></a> and it was so much fun! Within minutes a Google Doc was created and the collaboration began!</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://dmcordell.blogspot.com/2011/04/poem-in-my-pocket-students-on-my-screen.html">Diane Cordell</a> from New York, Steve Gagnon from New Hampshire, Donna Kouri from Illinois, <a href="http://secure.smilebox.com/ecom/openTheBox?sendevent=4d6a51774e6a4d794d444d3d0d0a&blogview=true&campaign=blog_playback_link">Jen Malphy</a> from Wisconsin, and Kathy Schmidt from Georgia quickly jumped on board and plans formed for this special day.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGCGp-gOkNiz3r0rtub5txLUYLU-G-Yhn9BAx0AI0WpacUwvYKdqfZThv3PjSYXSoNnXoqufMFuEc6_Ct19qZQ1dyRUN2ILWzMTmpJmcSH_Tb9nsBE7zMYi_MOX8MqgUURautmO3EM60/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.56.17+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGCGp-gOkNiz3r0rtub5txLUYLU-G-Yhn9BAx0AI0WpacUwvYKdqfZThv3PjSYXSoNnXoqufMFuEc6_Ct19qZQ1dyRUN2ILWzMTmpJmcSH_Tb9nsBE7zMYi_MOX8MqgUURautmO3EM60/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.56.17+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595934225310854002" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_V3AXEIIy6drLpzZnoNwXaAan-3gFLei9TI4Tf5E7rRfHP9y1mRjdwuVWve__Meka9m0y16BiLvwqZH8kGS2loel1L_nJxfDU62F2LuzAfYnt0yI6wHVDgkC13NkmKZwqMafe1VqTpV4/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.58.56+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_V3AXEIIy6drLpzZnoNwXaAan-3gFLei9TI4Tf5E7rRfHP9y1mRjdwuVWve__Meka9m0y16BiLvwqZH8kGS2loel1L_nJxfDU62F2LuzAfYnt0yI6wHVDgkC13NkmKZwqMafe1VqTpV4/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.58.56+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595933494580581762" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqiWv0ms-J_TOUgclpoVMvvXfvTswg46LaqKbV3dPs_a5qid-CUY-kxILU9WMl2t8e9HVcDr_8Owa5xU0fmNzkW0EJ0f3cMh8apGvclI93iseA4Mh0tH2nPwlxKGh6x9oKefQ4EEcmSSN/s320/pocket1.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YTpEs0O-LuU5nu3YUIrOEkYbR_18GA2GwrhwG95h2-OQwRHc8UZ7vIdf3Y3v-4j8opqnygYWZkaQ9AxJmLwbS2pZni76BAAJkrnueHRuPHnbTzEa393xBS5lTY3k5QhtcUa1xmJpEBwl/s320/pocket2.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The day arrived and there was excitement in the air! Teachers and students passed out stickers that read "<i>Ask me about the poem in my pocket." </i>An email was sent out to remind everyone to be ready to share their poem and ask others to share too. In the library there were Skype connections throughout the day that connected students, adults and ourselves to a wonderful poetry experience.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div></span></span></span><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.17003149230476056" style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In Shannon's pocket...</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.17003149230476056" style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhSqWqug7YqtoU4FQ2dhmMNc3JjzOm6YadR5RRHSa9-ZoxNh759uA1pUS1le2R1r_1UxTa7LwD6jH7qzGYzGucHHSmO-21pN9sMUNxPCLiULTpSImsGxyK0hwjMvqBt0Ccly6CSPBVjA/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+3.20.58+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhSqWqug7YqtoU4FQ2dhmMNc3JjzOm6YadR5RRHSa9-ZoxNh759uA1pUS1le2R1r_1UxTa7LwD6jH7qzGYzGucHHSmO-21pN9sMUNxPCLiULTpSImsGxyK0hwjMvqBt0Ccly6CSPBVjA/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+3.20.58+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595908272493004066" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>HUG O’ WAR</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I will not play at tug o’war</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’d rather play at hug o’ war, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where everyone hugs</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Instead of tugs</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where everyone giggles</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And rolls on the rug,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where everyone kisses</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And everyone grins</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And everyone cuddles</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And everyone wins. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><a href="http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">-Shel Silverstein</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><br /></span></span><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="225"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=e510ef1e3b&photo_id=5620430600"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=e510ef1e3b&photo_id=5620430600" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">In John's pocket...</span></div></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TNVXkvJAzx49P4fxcq6FgJApoWbX03TZjy0BbRDMGdmLfRZbQzmcGlVQx_7SSHr8IO2vssk88fLBjKHhUHgt5a28zGL99-M_91CM-Zg8NJTD_eQKtN_stVv0gIcM4AWlBeKuM1XwCGE/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+3.29.18+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 390px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TNVXkvJAzx49P4fxcq6FgJApoWbX03TZjy0BbRDMGdmLfRZbQzmcGlVQx_7SSHr8IO2vssk88fLBjKHhUHgt5a28zGL99-M_91CM-Zg8NJTD_eQKtN_stVv0gIcM4AWlBeKuM1XwCGE/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+3.29.18+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595910460775240146" /></a></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; " id="internal-source-marker_0.17003149230476056"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>LOVE THAT DOG</b><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“Love that dog,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">like a bird loves to fly</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I said I love that dog</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">like a bird loves to fly</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Love to call him in the morning</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">love to call him</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“Hey there, Sky!”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.sharoncreech.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">-Sharon Creech</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></span></span></div></div><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=81602a59d3&photo_id=5619823801"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=81602a59d3&photo_id=5619823801" height="225" width="400"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7N5AtSRu7iHb-UicrRKhIhRk2lIJCd5KtnyHiN2OhiZQSBHrTNTLmoyJ8cupP3DPhCumKxW9zNzPLKJdZC5pG75nvA75ag9t9C722wvdRZiSQMFkpgxFWtVxeQdpGu6OGUEfH92afoM4/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+5.06.07+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 327px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7N5AtSRu7iHb-UicrRKhIhRk2lIJCd5KtnyHiN2OhiZQSBHrTNTLmoyJ8cupP3DPhCumKxW9zNzPLKJdZC5pG75nvA75ag9t9C722wvdRZiSQMFkpgxFWtVxeQdpGu6OGUEfH92afoM4/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+5.06.07+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595935501168916178" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCu15fNYA9A6Jw7T9re7ht4eGQYqE6ecUOReSqSP9hWoJr5SOzjCfNWNo3OgoIQXBaGdxueC3c79xKgKfoA3nCho0t3GrGyL81krXBb3r0NGYLuZsA9UijcJsm07wuoK9a8BTqBNmyDD8/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+5.06.55+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCu15fNYA9A6Jw7T9re7ht4eGQYqE6ecUOReSqSP9hWoJr5SOzjCfNWNo3OgoIQXBaGdxueC3c79xKgKfoA3nCho0t3GrGyL81krXBb3r0NGYLuZsA9UijcJsm07wuoK9a8BTqBNmyDD8/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+5.06.55+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595935497277431346" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">We love these two photographs that show the connection between our kindergarten students and Diane in New York. This student had the perfect poem that he practiced and was proud to share with a new friend over 1,000 miles away. After they shared, she read a poem her son wrote when he was a little boy and shared<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hush-Little-Alien-Daniel-Kirk/dp/0786805382"> </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hush-Little-Alien-Daniel-Kirk/dp/0786805382">Hush, Little Alien by Daniel Kirk.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMTMJUxqtU-HPuTk8ynfEuquGkPldyyRXdwJrY-5AYBXL5Dy0lJT0anQNVA6oTxs0613l4U4zpzusYuFMf2ZrQhniZ_FEyIg3yTgXKZgkUlcAtQC5vxltSN0sK2M0mOFOoLm8CT3zb9xU/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.58.24+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 379px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMTMJUxqtU-HPuTk8ynfEuquGkPldyyRXdwJrY-5AYBXL5Dy0lJT0anQNVA6oTxs0613l4U4zpzusYuFMf2ZrQhniZ_FEyIg3yTgXKZgkUlcAtQC5vxltSN0sK2M0mOFOoLm8CT3zb9xU/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.58.24+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595934238359343394" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPhWaT1JGsfk3tc3J_WdP71hECdo3rUfKho9xb1TbH1bjZXQtGpp-HvepvtOpTo5uUw2smA6MbttXaI-UvZxSnLX1kg4zqx0SgjHKAWw5ZRWRUdE4Nfs_kkuxMJAxjQmlJs2YCsnyTio/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.58.07+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPhWaT1JGsfk3tc3J_WdP71hECdo3rUfKho9xb1TbH1bjZXQtGpp-HvepvtOpTo5uUw2smA6MbttXaI-UvZxSnLX1kg4zqx0SgjHKAWw5ZRWRUdE4Nfs_kkuxMJAxjQmlJs2YCsnyTio/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.58.07+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595934231849893954" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">The students even got the administrators and teachers involved in Poem In Your Pocket Day. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is a day that Van Meter and Brook Forest will never forget and one that we will celebrate together next year. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And remember...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">it doesn't have to be Poem In Your Pocket Day to share poetry with your friends.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgqdM-3cQ9SV9Zysh2XfvNJxuC-BOgksC68tcerXtoQu28AaNE-JzTb1A2efiaVjDyFF12dDFaapu_uFMfuIumA_uJ3CxmQNsH8l4EGWQKyYOFfroaes4CO3phdt8R0617X6vuVmVIzYg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.57.48+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgqdM-3cQ9SV9Zysh2XfvNJxuC-BOgksC68tcerXtoQu28AaNE-JzTb1A2efiaVjDyFF12dDFaapu_uFMfuIumA_uJ3CxmQNsH8l4EGWQKyYOFfroaes4CO3phdt8R0617X6vuVmVIzYg/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-15+at+4.57.48+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595934231644830882" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></div>Mr. Schuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04065363784663641593noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-44165292155739202162011-04-06T05:54:00.000-07:002011-04-15T13:16:56.915-07:00We Are Excited to Celebrate Poetry Month with LitWorld!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsf1-pCMZgwHAvaQxT4ZdJjKmOXRNg8RZZrDhTrS3L02R0ddloWsbu2C1nwI5B89CBv3AIPqE0be12XUZ3T2M4_LmMis44tAxto0OVEjsEH8U84U94g1DRT_5exJkOc2dfOBznuKyZELQ/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-05+at+11.18.23+PM.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 344px; height: 346px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsf1-pCMZgwHAvaQxT4ZdJjKmOXRNg8RZZrDhTrS3L02R0ddloWsbu2C1nwI5B89CBv3AIPqE0be12XUZ3T2M4_LmMis44tAxto0OVEjsEH8U84U94g1DRT_5exJkOc2dfOBznuKyZELQ/s400/Screen+shot+2011-04-05+at+11.18.23+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592454047687048450" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">April is National Poetry Month! Join </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">LitWorld, A Global Literacy Organization</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, in celebrating the power and spirit of words by helping to compose a </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Global Poem for Change</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:<br /><br />The wonderful poet Naomi Shihab Nye got us started with a first line:</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I send my words out into the air, listening for yours from everywhere.</span></span></b><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />What words do you send out into the air?</span></span></div></i><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />What words do you listen for?</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Celebrate Poetry Month and create a Global Poem for Change with LitWorld!<br /><br /></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What comes next?</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Submit a line of your own at </span></span><a href="http://litworld.org/poem/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(148, 46, 6); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">litworld.org/poem</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and watch our Poem GROW at </span></span><a href="http://litworld.org/poemblog" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(148, 46, 6); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">litworld.org/poemblog</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.<br /><br />We need Your Words to Change Worlds.<br /><br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Share </span></span><a href="http://litworld.org/poemblog/2011/4/1/midnight-april-1-let-fly-the-global-poem-for-change.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(148, 46, 6); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">our announcement</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and help our poem soar around the world...</span></span></b><br /></span>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-40097979680107897332011-03-17T09:29:00.000-07:002011-03-17T17:02:54.987-07:002011 Library Journal Movers and Shakers<p></p><p></p><div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=b0438c3961&photo_id=5530575387"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=b0438c3961&photo_id=5530575387" height="225" width="400"></embed></object></div><p></p><p>Congratulations to the 2011 <i>Library Journal</i> Movers and Shakers. I am honored and humbled to be named a 2011 Mover and Shaker. I find it hard to believe that I appear on the cover of <i>Library Journal</i> with such innovative, hardworking, and inspiring librarians. </p></div><div><p></p><p></p></div><div> Thank you, Library Journal, for naming me <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2011/moversandshakersSchumacher.csp">The Xtreme Librarian</a>. I will try my best to live up to the title. </div><p></p><p></p><div>Thank you to my mentors: <a href="http://tametheweb.com/">Michael Stephens</a> (technology), <a href="http://childrensbookalmanac.com/">Anita Silvey</a> and<a href="http://andersons2.indiebound.com/"> Anderson's Bookshop</a> (children's literature), and <a href="http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/">Shannon Miller (</a>collaboration.) You are fantastic role models. Thank you to <a href="http://mrschu81.wordpress.com/">Donna Kouri</a> for traveling around the country with <a href="http://animoto.com/play/M4x2UKAO5TwNAGIYL6bX4Q">stuffed animals</a> and me. Thank you for the notes and words of encouragement. (Those of you who know me in person know I do not easily accept praise.) </div><div><p></p><p></p></div><div> Last, thank you to <a href="http://www.jsworldwide.com/">Jon Scieszka</a>, the former Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, for declaring me "<i>The Best Librarian in the World." </i>;-)</div><div></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5TtrgjmgkPYZT16hwDHYh0m3dpZvBDha54tza0tYtfa6WCZekUHr_RnEgsVPNMmeL1UkfsGd1IQ1-mMJfi8TZKbhh-itbCYVC-QW1prrUHBPrSYb2d6H6MOX5eCXGYV0IoNWHyzUXT8/s320/additional.JPG" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnMoMLhl3A1z0Qmhqi0OUpMBoKDGL_KWicYLXSFzLjkfmtmseQiMkqockqfMr7yTGMBQica28Ib3IZ3HNhO3uTOKX_W7VFWYoIp3shfVLRQ-O82kpH2NVozeip3EiPuNPFu15Y1hWbtZs/s320/resources.JPG" /></div><p></p><p></p><div align="center"></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/litandmore/5530530812/" title="2011 Library Journal Movers and Shakers - 3/15/11 by Litandmore, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5220/5530530812_868d860f04.jpg" width="275" height="367" alt="2011 Library Journal Movers and Shakers - 3/15/11" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p></p><p></p></div><div style="text-align: center;">2011 Library Journal Movers and Shakers </div><p></p><p></p><div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/moversandshakers2011.csp"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRwiSBHYIXiptPJnnztNQuE_w7AlRyf095BopKCycl7tCV_qdb_wfY-SsVnVaPgXts3huZBaq-y5TqSC6ll3Nsc5QxEIfxgNBKBFEu0c_aeFGcJ1nCx1Rlveuv_ppMeds06kDslgBRVD8/s320/movers2.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div align="center">View the <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/moversandshakers2011.csp">full list</a> of the 2011 Movers and Shakers.</div><p></p><p></p><div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuKF_El2en0RUVQAHZfz_kPw0Q8JIB942UNm0mbKM30j-JkjSU-wVKvOJpxS4puPPdFrv7rb7oM6fdABFnQ_l156e_wC3RBYe-RfgwWpshA0qOEYxo6NKCIXfH-Xl7VA0QVzZPWKYCCs/s320/advocate.JPG" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p></p><p></p></div><div style="text-align: left;">Advocates--2011 Movers and Shakers<a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2011/moversandshakersCrawford.csp">: Tracy Crawford</a>, <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2011/moversandshakersLett.csp">Rosalind K. Lett</a>, <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2011/moversandshakersSchumacher.csp">Me</a>, <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2011/moversandshakersWalden.csp">Diane Walden</a>, <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2011/moversandshakersWalkerD.csp">Donna Walker</a>, and <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/csp/cms/sites/LJ/LJInPrint/MoversAndShakers/profiles2011/moversandshakersWatts.csp">John Watts.</a> </div><div><p></p><p></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/articlereview/889142-457/lj_movers__shakers_2002-2010.html.csp"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdR7qlP_F3MCInXg6ALxhW5-iEGPbK-2ZckhJvrdkfCfj1qjlQTFChqlppA5LHmaWnr4EtmjWDLypHjjz0Gxgqan4QaJFOQS0pmu0uWxJGmNESqasmeT9XXijV0HD5tKOc4DJ4kkaAPyY/s320/moversonmap.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/articlereview/889142-457/lj_movers__shakers_2002-2010.html.csp">Movers on the Map: 2002- 2011</a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div align="center"></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.slj.com/slj/home/889667-312/moving_and_shaking_with_kids.html.csp"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrS4yDbamGW7h5vxvBbIRwlAM3bH8qZK_To_KDkXGgiZtAR248tvRCPCmc570u-XZuCHNUhKry-oK2cFmkcGADjAn4dGcSmW4GcXdkjkiNKSMN809ZxQ8FqNjEmg3jalQxsHvhHFb07BA/s320/kidsandteens.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p></p><p></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; ">Ten of those dynamos who are helping shape the future of libraries work with children or teens." -<a href="http://www.slj.com/slj/home/889667-312/moving_and_shaking_with_kids.html.csp">School Library Journal</a></span></span></div><p></p><p></p><div></div>Mr. Schuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04065363784663641593noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-60322555765203104002011-03-16T07:22:00.000-07:002011-03-16T07:58:14.180-07:00Check Out the March Edition of Project PLN<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7q8GVF6-y_LTleTby-cjaRy5i09mIc8RY0eGSkQsvBuXhKvWsp__ME8N0cmyAW9Oa-grGUjS6IaP7rP50RVOTLo-a_6FmmicE-sL4wlfPv-ijjUcFsxc9zS4MB0kZZ5xZMcmG_IbzS4/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-03-16+at+9.12.48+AM.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 363px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7q8GVF6-y_LTleTby-cjaRy5i09mIc8RY0eGSkQsvBuXhKvWsp__ME8N0cmyAW9Oa-grGUjS6IaP7rP50RVOTLo-a_6FmmicE-sL4wlfPv-ijjUcFsxc9zS4MB0kZZ5xZMcmG_IbzS4/s400/Screen+shot+2011-03-16+at+9.12.48+AM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584683512505554962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The March Edition of Project PLN is out! This edition is called </span><a href="http://www.openzine.com/aspx/Zine.aspx?IssueID=18920"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The 21st Century Librarian</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and contains so many great entries by librarians around the world. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you haven't heard about Project PLN it is something you definitely need to check out. </span><a href="http://www.openzine.com/aspx/PublisherZine.aspx?ID=27665&IssueID=18920"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Project PLN</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> was created by </span><a href="http://www.openzine.com/aspx/Zine.aspx?IssueID=18920"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kelly Tenkely</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="Nicholas Provenzano"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nick Provenzano</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> last fall. Each month they create a new edition which contains amazing articles by others in our PLN. Issues have included Best Practices for the Start of School, Administrator, Web Tools, Goals for the New Year, Passion and of course the first issue was entitled "PLN's". Kelly and Nick use </span><a href="http://www.openzine.com/aspx/HomePage.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OpenZine</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> which is a free Web 2.0 tool used for creating online magazines like Project PLN. </span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6w1I7dSK-XbbCmQ3ECMwUmtA-hCgSYWLqlyl6wNBs9RenPt0xcXjTD4ylHZfJeKkhGzp7HO6aKCl9osHRYpDjJW1iDQyZARE1gLkfK5ddUYKda1c2DHC17LyrfEtYJODE85qiNfbx-g/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-03-16+at+9.12.32+AM.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6w1I7dSK-XbbCmQ3ECMwUmtA-hCgSYWLqlyl6wNBs9RenPt0xcXjTD4ylHZfJeKkhGzp7HO6aKCl9osHRYpDjJW1iDQyZARE1gLkfK5ddUYKda1c2DHC17LyrfEtYJODE85qiNfbx-g/s400/Screen+shot+2011-03-16+at+9.12.32+AM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584683501078309650" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In this issue, our Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration that we had to celebrate Read Across America was featured. It was fun to see </span><a href="http://www.openzine.com/aspx/ReadMore.aspx?ID=120656&lid=77&IssueID=18920&zineID=0&divid=308"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Van Meter & Brook Forest Celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in Project PLN. This is one celebration that we will never forget. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqytFbZ5ObC_uW_m_bzzp9CpMA29x-C_BgpMobDwbVXBA3ZH9IAZH0fnhzgwqRvkl0ulvuU4SyoG1Z0yJJTlAqMSo8r57FP9IpfXal0Wk5yIDChctwxLgToqIPBujucLP5z3MOO_f24y8/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-03-16+at+9.11.40+AM.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqytFbZ5ObC_uW_m_bzzp9CpMA29x-C_BgpMobDwbVXBA3ZH9IAZH0fnhzgwqRvkl0ulvuU4SyoG1Z0yJJTlAqMSo8r57FP9IpfXal0Wk5yIDChctwxLgToqIPBujucLP5z3MOO_f24y8/s400/Screen+shot+2011-03-16+at+9.11.40+AM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584683499118732546" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thank you, Kelly and Nick for including us in March's issue of Project PLN. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Your project is a wonderful example of the power of our PLN! </span></div></div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-85633751462956334332011-03-13T19:58:00.000-07:002011-03-14T18:20:14.676-07:00The Day We All Came Together To Celebrate Reading<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></u></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><object id="vp1r4kWp" width="432" height="240" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1300102167&f=r4kWpJfQY37TtN9H8U7fbA&d=262&m=a&r=360p&start_res=360p&i=m&options="><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed id="vp1r4kWp" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1300102167&f=r4kWpJfQY37TtN9H8U7fbA&d=262&m=a&r=360p&start_res=360p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object></div><div style="font-family: georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></div><div face="georgia" size="small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On March 9, our two schools came together for </span><a href="http://www.diigo.com/list/shannonmiller/poetry-resources"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">World Read Aloud Day</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> with 13 other classrooms and 9 authors to read throughout the day. We spoke about the importance of reading and words, shared wonderful books, and connected to other students throughout the world. The authors spoke about why they loved to write and read out of the amazing books they had written. The </span><a href="http://celebratingthepowerofwordsandstoriesthroughconnections.wikispaces.com/Skype+Schedule+and+Projects"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">schedule</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> we posted on the Celebrating the Power of Words and Stories Through Connections wiki looked crazy but really helped everyone get connected and plan their activities. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityT_hDQd6gGDSDQ9Ll05sRyK-3zc42nX5ijOpW-LbFypfE0vrnObwqua0UTqNzZpZyOPe90j7_Tnep0F_W3vzSMCiygYPVmw4QpeDnRgolu3theyWIVyb82WTWWm7qp29eqK-HMF-4wI/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-03-14+at+4.04.08+AM.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 376px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityT_hDQd6gGDSDQ9Ll05sRyK-3zc42nX5ijOpW-LbFypfE0vrnObwqua0UTqNzZpZyOPe90j7_Tnep0F_W3vzSMCiygYPVmw4QpeDnRgolu3theyWIVyb82WTWWm7qp29eqK-HMF-4wI/s400/Screen+shot+2011-03-14+at+4.04.08+AM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583859063654070306" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Travis Jonker and the third- and fourth-graders nearly 200 miles away shared </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Messing Around on the Monkey Bars </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with John's students at Brook Creek Elementary. Their story was featured on mLive.com and is entitled</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 53, 70); font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.mlive.com/penaseeglobe/index.ssf/2011/03/steeby_elementary_students_sha.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Steeby Elementary students share book with Illinois classroom in Honor of World Read Aloud Day</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 53, 70); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 53, 70); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/RoccoA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rocco Staino</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> who is the contributing editor for School Library Journal wrote </span></span><a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/newslettersnewsletterbucketextrahelping2/889499-477/celebrate_world_read_aloud_day.html.csp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Celebrate World Read Aloud</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. He mentioned our connections along with what others were doing to celebrate World Read Aloud Day too. Also, </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Steve Schering from the The Doings Oak Brook wrote </span></span><a href="http://www.pioneerlocal.com/oakbrook/news/3109674,oak-brook-readaloud-031211-s1.article"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Brook Forest Travel Country on Skype for World Read Aloud Day</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. He outlined the amazing connections John and his students had throughout the day. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 53, 70); font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The day after WRAD, we met in Chicago at the Follett Software User Conference. Shannon </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/vmbulldogs.com/social-media-in-education/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">presented about using social media in education</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. At one point, we spoke about the connections between our two schools using social media and what an amazing and inspiring experience it had been for everyone involved. The students at John's school even created hand drawn cards for Shannon. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRPRgJ__9MDJSK_YsEARkb3vvas1hLILF05WDrdfvyh6Z3woMsAQPfShj9w8lvI-E0dT5JgLqyLRLzOkL9EmtstOeAZjC_TblSlg3NJ_TvtoG5GiohBEXozyXgcXq8kLEeQ1UJDLRBGE/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-03-13+at+11.48.42+PM.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRPRgJ__9MDJSK_YsEARkb3vvas1hLILF05WDrdfvyh6Z3woMsAQPfShj9w8lvI-E0dT5JgLqyLRLzOkL9EmtstOeAZjC_TblSlg3NJ_TvtoG5GiohBEXozyXgcXq8kLEeQ1UJDLRBGE/s400/Screen+shot+2011-03-13+at+11.48.42+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583862104891548514" /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">World Read Aloud Day brought hundreds of students, teachers, and authors together for a day. It all started with the</span><a href="http://celebratingthepowerofwordsandstoriesthroughconnections.wikispaces.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Celebrating the Power of Words and Stories Through Connections Wiki </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that we created a month earlier. Through Twitter, Facebook, Skype, our blog and email we shared it with the world and brought together 15 wonderful educators who wanted to create a special day for their students.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This will be a day that none of us will ever forget. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 16px; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:9px;"><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Celebrate the Power of Words and Stories and Take Action for Global Literacy </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">from</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></span></i><a href="http://www.litworld.org/worldreadaloudday/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">LitWorld</span></span></a></h2></span></span></span></div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-42215635167961551072011-03-02T16:58:00.000-08:002011-03-02T20:09:45.313-08:00Van Meter & Brook Forest Celebrated Dr. Seuss's Birthday<div style="text-align: center;"><object id="vp12hJHI" width="432" height="240" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1299113893&f=2hJHIIEnidftv7oOjcXkVg&d=265&m=a&r=360p&start_res=360p&i=m&options="><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed id="vp12hJHI" src="http://static.animoto.com/swf/w.swf?w=swf/vp1&e=1299113893&f=2hJHIIEnidftv7oOjcXkVg&d=265&m=a&r=360p&start_res=360p&i=m&options=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="432" height="240"></embed></object><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) was born on March 2, 1904. On March 2, schools, bookshops, and libraries celebrate the power of reading and </span><a href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/s/dr-seuss.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dr. Seuss's birthday.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It is also the day we celebrate </span><a href="http://www.nea.org/readacross"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">NEA's Read Across America Day</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">! As the NEA site states, "NEA's national reading celebration takes places each year on or near March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books, and you can too." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">So that is exactly what we decided to do at Van Meter and Oak Brook schools this year. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Shannon's kindergarten students (from Christa McClintock's classroom) and John's third graders (from Mrs. Sompolski's classroom) connected on the morning of Dr. Seuss's 107th birthday in their libraries to celebrate this very special day. After introductions and a little sharing about what the students knew about Dr. Seuss the celebration began. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">John's students took turns reading pages from <i>Dr. Seuss's ABC</i> while Christa held up the book in Van Meter for the students to see. It was fun to hear all of the students say their ABC's together too. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They played Seuss Bingo as a group with Shannon and John calling out words such as, "</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brook Forest, Van Meter, Fun, The Foot Book, and Read Across America." </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The students marked their Seuss cards and yelled "BINGO" from both schools. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The students read the NEA </span><a href="http://www.nea.org/grants/13770.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Reader's Oath</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> together. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">At the end of the Skype celebration, the two schools stood up and sang Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss. To watch the smiles on their faces and to see the excitement throughout the libraries was very special for everyone. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As the children ate their cupcakes in Van Meter and cookies in Oak Brook, this line from the Reader's Oath came to mind....</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"I'll read to myself, I'll read to a crowd. It makes no difference, if it's silent or loud." </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">What a difference reading together made within these two schools and in the lives of the children on this day. This is a celebration of reading with new and old friends that they will always remember.</span></p></div></div>Mr. Schuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04065363784663641593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-7390561377599985732011-02-20T17:37:00.000-08:002011-02-20T18:30:51.750-08:00Celebrating the Power of Words and Stories Through Connections!<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEo93E3OVSJ-hNDhnCheuoFUH3M07-f9Vyh5UmjQPOOjL9Asc6PZbJ5GnGkHqH17fZE6j1-u98T7ghuLT8csE95I-wvi-zmykjV41O4fq-IWoYG4lbMtEzf4CRU6q1Kf5rSmd9UAwhWhM/s1600/Celebrating+the+Power+of+Words+and+Stories+Through+Connections.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 103px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEo93E3OVSJ-hNDhnCheuoFUH3M07-f9Vyh5UmjQPOOjL9Asc6PZbJ5GnGkHqH17fZE6j1-u98T7ghuLT8csE95I-wvi-zmykjV41O4fq-IWoYG4lbMtEzf4CRU6q1Kf5rSmd9UAwhWhM/s400/Celebrating+the+Power+of+Words+and+Stories+Through+Connections.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575951046373008066" /></a></div>On March 9th, we will be celebrating World Read Aloud Day together. <div><br /></div><div>On <a href="http://www.litworld.org/worldreadaloudday">LitWorld's website</a>, World Read Aloud Day is described as, </div><div><br /></div><div><i>"A day to take action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another, and creates a community of readers advocating for every child's right to a safe education and access to books and technology. By raising our voices together on this day we show the world's children that we support their future; they they have the right to read, to write, and to share their words to change the world." </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">So last Friday, we <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/litandmore/5456401377/">collaborated</a> from Van Meter Community School to Brook Forest Elementary School through Skype and brainstormed a way to connect not only our students, but other students, teachers, and communities around the world. </span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">We are calling our project CELEBRATING THE POWER OF WORDS AND STORIES THROUGH CONNECTIONS. Throughout the day on March 9th, we will be connecting our students and others around the world with amazing books through read aloud's and discussions on Skype. Last night, we connected with seven other educators who are as excited as we are. And this is just a start! </span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Today we created a <a href="http://celebratingthepowerofwordsandstoriesthroughconnections.wikispaces.com/">wiki </a>to connect everyone, coordinate times, post photographs and videos, and reflect after the event. The wiki is open for others to join. Please feel free to share on the wiki too. </span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 16px; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:9px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFQrx3m7YatvxVONMiEf-3wZyAc9YwqC9e1ecyQe_docU0Bzk85KQ8cVSPVveKe46Hq9a9Of6uMdxHAr9xkAaBMp1lpMhW3VXQtorPk4N95zwKKENIfLXYcASdvrCKO1QZ2gWOsKCXZfU/s400/Screen+shot+2011-02-20+at+7.57.10+PM.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575956360444394466" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This is going to be an exciting project and one that will make an impact on the lives of our students and others. On LitWorld's website there are </span><a href="http://www.litworld.org/worldreadalouddayactivities"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">several activities</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and a </span><a href="http://www.litworld.org/worldreadalouddayblog"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">blog </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">to read what others are doing for this special day in their school too. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Have fun and remember....our voices can make a difference! </span></span></p></span></div>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543564858872301654.post-46243829040471608442011-01-22T19:00:00.000-08:002011-01-22T20:13:13.517-08:00"Brook Forest librarian brings down walls with technology" article from TheDoingsOak-Brook.com<meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p></p><div class="date" style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 10px; font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><div class="date" style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 10px; font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); "><a href="http://www.pioneerlocal.com/oakbrook/news/3032532,oak-brook-exchange-012111-s1.article"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This article appear in TheDoingsOak-Brook.com on January 21, 2011</span></span></a></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></div><div class="byline" style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">By STEVE SCHERING Contributor</span></span></div></span></div><div class="date" style="color: rgb(95, 95, 95); font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 10px; font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do" class="enlarge_pic" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 4px; text-decoration: underline; "><img src="http://media1.pioneerlocal.com/multimedia/ob-exchange-012711-p4_pp_feed_20110121_17_51_16_6069-110-165.imageContent" height="110" width="165" border="0" class="IMG" style="cursor: pointer; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " /></a></span><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Daniel Petrucelli laughs after recording his voice while making a podcast Friday at Brook Forest Elementary.
<br /></span></span><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rob Hart~Sun-Times Media</span></span></span></div><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do" class="enlarge_pic" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 4px; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="http://media1.pioneerlocal.com/multimedia/ob-exchange-012711-p3_pp_feed_20110121_17_51_06_6053-110-165.imageContent" height="110" width="165" border="0" class="IMG" style="cursor: pointer; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " /></span></span></a><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Librarian John Schumacher shows students how to use a microphone Friday at Brook Forest Elementary in Oak Brook.
<br /></span></span><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rob Hart~Sun-Times Media</span></span></span></div><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do" class="enlarge_pic" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 4px; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="http://media1.pioneerlocal.com/multimedia/ob-exchange-012711-p2_pp_feed_20110121_17_51_17_6074-116-165.imageContent" height="116" width="165" border="0" class="IMG" style="cursor: pointer; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " /></span></span></a><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hamza Tahir works on making a podcast at Brook Forest Elementary Friday in Oak Brook.
<br /></span></span><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rob Hart~Sun-Times Media</span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do" class="enlarge_pic" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 4px; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="http://media1.pioneerlocal.com/multimedia/ob-exchange-012711-p1_pp_feed_20110121_17_51_14_6063-116-165.imageContent" height="116" width="165" border="0" class="IMG" style="cursor: pointer; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " /></span></span></a><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Morgan Carlson fills out information before making a podcast Friday at Brook Forest Elementary in Oak Brook. Librarian John Schumacher runs a technology exchange program with a school in Iowa and the students are producing podcasts with the other school.
<br /></span></span><span class="credit" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Rob Hart~Sun-Times Media</span></span></span></div><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
<br /></span></span></div><div class="caption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal; ">Van Meter Elementary in Van Meter, Iowa is 335 miles away, but for students at Brook Forest Elementary in Oak Brook, their peers are no more than a click away.</span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></div><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Recently, students at both schools connected through Edmodo, a secure social network that allows the kids to communicate with each other.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Once a week, our kids would log in and they would have online book discussions," Brook Forest Librarian John Schumacher said. "They started off by talking about the towns they live in and what differences and similarities the two schools had."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The connection between the two schools can be traced back to October, when the School Library Summit was in Chicago. Schumacher met Van Meter Elementary Librarian Shannon Miller there.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After the leadership conference, the two brainstormed ideas to link their libraries. Eventually, the fourth graders at both schools began connecting through Edmodo.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"In their first complete conversations, they introduced themselves and talked about where they are from," Miller said. "The students love commenting about sports they play, books they read and their families. Before Christmas, (Schumacher's) kids made a top 10 list and my kids loved commenting on it."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Edmodo may look like Facebook, but Schumacher said it's very different. The teachers can control what is written and the site is mainly for academic purposes.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Literacy is our primary focus," Schumacher said. "At the high school and college level, this kind of relationship is common, but not so much at the elementary level. We wanted to connect the libraries and the students' book experiences through technology."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The schools previously celebrated Ivy and Bean day together and a classroom Skype visit may be in the future.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"They love it and were really excited," Miller said. "To them, Chicago is a long ways away. They view it as someplace very different from Iowa. There are differences, but they see we have a lot in common, as well."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In addition to showing off Brook Forest to new students, Schumacher has also used technology to keep in touch with a former one.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"We have a student who moved to Singapore and he's been able to stay in our book club because of Edmodo," he said. "He was able to log on and discuss December's books."</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For future projects, Schumacher sees a "Libraries Around the World" trip to keep technology in the students' hands. He also has first graders experiencing Garageband, a music program they are using to create podcasts about a Caldecott award-winning book.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He also said the Edmodo project will not be the last link between the two schools. He exposes his students to a variety of Web programs.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;font-size:small;">"When I hear of a new technology, I think of how I can introduce it at the elementary level," Schumacher said. "By connecting with Van Meter, I've been able to bring down the walls of the library."</span></p><div>
<br /></div></span>Shannon McClintock Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17204029519489158065noreply@blogger.com0