child in a tan shirt, face obscured, seated at a table, demonstrating arm-knitting with thick blue yarn, in a school library.
oh, I love this so much! Do you have any “How To” book recs for the kids?
I have an arm-knitting center during recess that’s been a huge hit, and I’d love to add knitting and crochet (once I master some basics myself! 🥴 #leftyproblems)
arghhh I am actually doing this RIGHT NOW, I absolutely have no chill when it comes to electronic communications (or like, any communication?) 🤦🏻♀️🥴
love it!!
last spring our reading celebration week’s theme was “Let’s Read Our Way To The Moon!” and one of my favorite activities with the littles was the moon illustrations! so many AMAZING “artistic liberties” 😊🌕
<me, bag on shoulder, flipping lights off, locking the door, walking away>
student: WAIT, IS THE LIBRARY CLOSED???
me: yup! see you tomorrow!
student: so… I can’t come in, or…?
🤷🏻♀️😑
(except when it’s my kindergarteners, who are instead SCANDALIZED to learn I do not, in fact, live in the library 😂)
on the other end of the spectrum, I have students who think snow is “fictional” 🥴
I loved all of these! my students and I were cheering for all the titles we had predicted! If you don’t mind sharing, how many books would you estimate you read? my kiddos were FASCINATED by the idea of the committee work!
oh i love this! thanks for sharing!
I’ve had family visit from outside the country & casually ask me to drive them from L.A. to Chicago (um, no?), then roll their eyes and say “ok, San Francisco then, that’s still CA, right?” they are BLOWN AWAY when i explain that’s still an 8-hr drive. it really IS hard to conceptualize the size.
ooh i love this so much!
I love especially when my students catch me there 😂
“Ms Q,what are you DOING here??”
love this idea, thanks for sharing!
a homemade costume of a teacher’s desk with a large anthropomorphic sandwich on top
at sone point I’ll ask one of my students to help me take a picture of me WEARING it, but here’s Mr. S, by popular demand 😂
even without any context, I fully agree, shenanigans abound in just a few minutes with Canva 😂
love this checklist! (and of course the comment at the bottom ❤️)
arghh I both love and hate when that happens!
I’m thinking Drama continues to draw attention because it overlaps into elementary AND middle school collections, but it IS fascinating!
the book cover for Monica Arnaldo’s book “Mr. S”, featuring smiling children and a giant anthropomorphic sandwich on a teacher’s desk
“but Ms. Q, you ALWAYS dress as a character from a book” 🥺
the book they chose:
😂 when my friend also became a elem school librarian and asked me for advice, I told her: “I don’t think there’s any way to prepare you for the level of celebrity you’ll be facing”
…and a year later she admitted that even with my warning, she was not, in fact, prepared 😳😂
I’m always genuinely fascinated by these peeks into the “author world”✍️
I’ve always thought this would make a great math project/word problem for students, too!
i do say it like everyone else has also replied (huh-MODGE-en-us) buuut… I *have* heard some people say homo-JEEN-yus, and i do have to admit it pairs nicely with hetero-JEEN-yus 🤷🏻♀️
(if it wouldn’t scare my littles, that is)
my library has a 17ft ceiling and i would LOVE to prop a 12ft buddy in one of my corners 😂
same, in the kitchen! 😂
my most embarrassing: opening oven, sliding out rack to remove cookies, dropping mitt, bending down, and BURNING MY FOREHEAD ON THE OVEN RACK 🤦🏻♀️
colleague, that week: “ooh, was this a curling iron mishap?”
me: “uh, sure, let’s go with that.”
…aaaand while it never actually scared me into NOT being barefoot, I’m forever remembering the scolding, as I have managed to burn/bruise/cut my feet ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS 🤦🏻♀️
oh nooo! my mom would always scare us with a story of “you should never cook barefoot, my cousin once spilled an entire pasta pot of boiling water on her feet!”
this is so exquisitely Argentine
oof, dehydration-related seizures happening on my watch during recess duty is a horror I’ll never burn out of my brain - I’m absolutely the annoying adult nagging students (and colleagues) with ARE YOU ALL DRINKING ENOUGH WATER??
one of my favorite readalouds with my library students, and *I* still laugh every time I read it
loved sharing this book with my students ❤️
whew, what different kinds of discussions this might spark with kiddos today!
