Flippity

There are a lot of ideas for flashcards on the Internet, but this one appears to be very quick and easy. Flippity.net takes a Google spreadsheet and turns it into flashcards, a quiz game, a progress tracker, or a certificate of completion.

Click the link for Instructions & Templates to see how easy it is to create your own flashcards.

2016-2017 Bluebonnet List & Resources

The Texas Library Association has released the resources to go along with all of the books on the  current Bluebonnet list. These include reader's theater, links to video interviews of the authors and illustrators, activities, discussion questions, and websites to go with each book.
2016-2017 TBA Master List Resources

BINGO!!!

Let's play Library BINGO! Students are encouraged to read different genres and areas of the library to get 4 or 5 in a row on their BINGO sheet. There will be a fun play day at the park in May for anyone that gets a blackout. Quizzes are valid during the 5th and 6th Six Weeks only (Feb 16-May 13).

Rules for each grade level vary. Please see the Library BINGO sheet and rules for clarification.

Classroom BINGO - A special challenge from Mrs. Mapes! Are you up to it? 

Classes keep track of books read aloud by the teacher. Special class prize at the end of the school year. Remember that books logged on the classroom BINGO chart cannot be logged on the individual student charts.

Bluebonnet Winner Announced!

And the winner is...

Tools You Can Use Tomorrow

Leslie Fisher is always entertaining. She is one of the must-see presenters every year at TCEA, with her "let me see how much information I can pack into an hour" attitude. I always walk away with a lot of great ideas. This year was no different. The line going into her session wrapped around the corner, and a few hundred people were turned away. We got in!!!
Here is a list of amazing tools that I think you can use tomorrow.
Tools you can use tomorrow

Bluebonnet Voting

Glen Rose Intermediate students recently participated in the Texas Bluebonnet Award Voting. Each year, the Texas Library Association announces the Bluebonnet Reading list, which consists of twenty books chosen by a panel of Texas librarians. Students in grades 3-6 are challenged to “Read 5, Then Decide”. Students that read five of the books from the Bluebonnet Reading List are invited to vote for their favorite book.
On Thursday, 82 third, fourth, and fifth graders met in the Intermediate library for snacks and a preview of the 2016-2017 list. The students at Glen Rose Intermediate voted and chose their winner. The favorite among the students was The Misadventures of Salem Hyde: Spelling Trouble, a graphic novel by Frank Cammuso, with 14 votes. A close second, with 13 votes, was Quinny & Hopper by Adriana Brad Schanen.
The Texas Library Association will tally results from across the state and should announce the Bluebonnet Award winner in early February.
Students can get a jumpstart on next year’s list. Many of the titles are already in the library or will be at the book fair in February.
http://www.txla.org/TBA

TCEA Convention

This week several teachers from Glen Rose Intermediate will be attending the TCEA Convention in Austin to learn more about using technology in the classroom. Follow #TCEA16 on Twitter to see what's going on down here in Austin. There are a lot of great resources being shared.
I have a schedule full of coding, robotics, and 3D printing, as well as a librarians' academy.

Location:Trinity St,Austin,United States