Today three classes of 7th graders came to the library. I gave a short PowerPoint lesson explaining how the musical Wicked , which they had...

Right across the hall from my library is the Art Room and the 5th/6th grade Band Room. I feel so lucky. The teachers are both interesting,...

Along with being the school librarian, I am also the testing coordinator for the yearly Stanford 10 Achievement test. The coordinator take...

In Story Time today I read Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Although it is over one hundred years old, the story of how naug...

The school library catalog was replaced this week with a new modern web-based catalog. Staff and students can search the new catalog from a...

Yesterday I attended a workshop by Peggy Sharp on "What's New in Children's Literature, 2009." From the thousands of child...

Today the fifth-graders made quilt blocks, and I got to help. Each year they make blocks as part of a unit on a book called The House of Di...

My school library is being taken over for the Scholastic Book Fair which runs all next week. When I left late this afternoon, order was b...

We woke up to about two inches of snow yesterday, just enough for the schools to open two hours late. Two blissfully unhurried hours to dri...

Come on into my library and see our Christmas decorations! This festive door display was made by my aide, Rhonda, and she also did this pret...

Today I was one of the chaperons for the school's sixth grade field trip to the National Cathedral to represent the school at the annual...

The very fact that I could read "Dewey; There's a Cat in the Library" eight times on Monday and still like the book at the end...

We've gotten off to a great start with Storytime Mondays this year. The library aide and I have our routine down pat and can now just h...

Because my creative colleagues made me laugh today when they decorated their mouse and pencil sharpener as part of their "back to schoo...

I loved getting this colorful and cute thank you note from the 5th graders for making their quilt. It opens up to a two page spread of handw...

The school year is drawing to a close. Today was the next-to-the-last story time day for most of the preschoolers, and the last for the fou...

Ah, what a life! Just to take a minute to sit and watch the water. This didn't last long, though. Most of the past two days I was cha...

Another rainy, gloomy Monday for story time. Seemed appropriate for David Shannon's The Rain Came Down, the entertaining tale of how t...

Ms. Yingling Reads at www.msyinglingreads.blogspot.com is hosting a "Library Design Challenge" through which school librarians c...