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It's time for our 3rd Annual Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest. While we won't be able to see the pumpkins in person everyone at SPAS definitely still wants to hold the contest. We love seeing the colorful pumpkins decorated as book characters! Not to be deterred we came up with a plan to hold the... Continue Reading →
Ok Falcons, now that we have two weeks of school done I wanted to put together some brain break exercises for you. These are great ways to stop and reset after you have been on virtual learning. You might feel you need to do this after one class or after a few classes. Either way,... Continue Reading →
We are all a little sad that some of our fun summer vacations had to be canceled this year. To fill that void I have started to put together virtual vacations where you can explore some exciting places from the comfort of your home. These vacations started out as places that I wanted to go... Continue Reading →
SPAS is super excited to announce that the digital library from Junior Library Guild is now available on the Destiny homepage. Just look for the JLG Google Slide. Each month new books are added to the stream as old books retire. Which makes for an awesome variety of books! If SPAS students seem to enjoy... Continue Reading →
Hi Falcons! As the school year winds down and we wrap up this very unique year I find that once again I didn't blog on here like I wanted to. To make up for it I've put together a Where's Waldo: Falcons Edition. With help from the SPAS Faculty and Staff, of course! See if... Continue Reading →
It's time for the Mock Caldecott and this year has more entries than every. With so many potential winners how is a librarian supposed to chose?! As usual, the students will be reading the books and critiquing in class. We discuss what makes a Caldecott winning book and go over the criteria used by the... Continue Reading →
November is National Native American Heritage Month and we are ready to celebrate in the Learning Commons. There are so many great books where native people are the main characters and they aren't all historical. That being said, there are also many books that misrepresent Native Americans. As a librarian I always try to stay... Continue Reading →
The children picked and decorated their pumpkins to look like their favorite book characters and voting has begun for the 2nd Annual Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest. There are so many fun, unique and creative pumpkins! There are also a few characters that are favorites in the students eyes. Can you say Dog Man, Greg... Continue Reading →
We are excited to announce that the book character pumpkin decorating contest is back for a second year. There have been a few changes that are very important! So keep reading to find out the dates and rules for entering the pumpkin contest! Pumpkin Due Date Last year we had a few pumpkins rot on... Continue Reading →
Welcome back Falcons! We've been settled into school for about a month now, it's the first day of Fall, and I'm only now getting around to writing a blog post for Falcon's Fables. Not that this is extraordinarily unusual as you can see by my posting history. I'm really not that great and keeping the... Continue Reading →
Today the Social Studies podcast group brings you their first podcast of this school year. A group of 8th-grade girls put together a great podcast on Conspiracy Theories, and the Dunning-Kruger effect. We hope you enjoy it!
Another Mock Caldecott has come and gone. As each year goes by our students get better and better at using the ALA criteria to read, examine and analyze the illustrations from the Mock Caldecott books. None of the student choices won the actual award but we are happy with both the actual winner and the... Continue Reading →
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