Finally Friday Pins May 24 and Piggie & Elephant Dance Party Part 2

Well. It's a three day weekend! And kids are still amazing and awesome. Even when their end of year behavior is so ... not so much.

So ... I didn't get a job change I wanted pretty badly. Would have been WAAAAY closer to my new house plus ... it had walls and not 750 people walking through all day more than a couple times a day. And a library office. AND a library workroom. And a library storage room. No morning announcements (if anyone actually watched them I wouldn't dislike them so much ... but we can hear the hallways ... no one's watching). Would have hurt to leave my current kiddos but they would have been fine. And there would have been fun kids at the new school. And I wouldn't have been spending 10 hours a week commuting. But I didn't get it. Sort of a bit of a joke how many times I've interviewed to try somewhere new. :(
So I am remembering these things. I'm not terrible at what I do. Not perfect but not terrible, either. It's not all me. It's some them. One functional catalog/research computer in the library is not the end of the world (an expected delivery of 12 has been postponed with NO new date). And ...





Does anyone know the original source for this pic? I so want a print. Or a square gallery canvas print, actually. He's so happy.


Do I dare take the UGLY school one home and try this? Would base paint it a "bright navy" blue (is there such a thing?) and then sort of modpodge collage some book pages onto it? What book/s?


KidLit Cares for OK! Kate Messner is setting this up. She does some awesome things. And how rude am I to be so ... ridiculous. When there are people with real reasons to be disappointed this week.


Hooray for Batgirl and Tom Angleberger.


And ... didn't do anything different from last year. But cute pic ahead.

Today

was pretty much about the same. Whiny whiny whiny, right? At least I got to come home and give away a Piggie and Elephant book. Definitely puts a dent in the rottenness. And I never said yesterday but thank you so much for the birthday wishes. I have an awesome family so I was spoiled. Then this week came and I was humbled in a less fun way. Oh well.



So ... DAWN! Send me an email at mso at msoreadsbooks dot com with your address and you will receive Watch Me Throw the Ball. Funny you mentioned that one because I actually read our library copy to a class today. And we talked about Piggie's awesome attitude about the new thing she tried. No matter the outcome she was excited about it. Didn't connect those dots at the time. Maybe I should have and I wouldn't be so whiny right now. :/


And now maybe I'll go take this advice. Although there is supposed to be a big thunderstorm so maybe I won't. Maybe I'll go eat another cake pop. We'll see. At this moment it's a toss up. :/

Hot Hot Hot

So I'll pick the P&E book winner first thing tomorrow morning and post. Thanks for playing along with my little giveaway. Still time to enter! Stressful day (non-functional AC in South Texas always leads to stress ... hard to be chill when you're SO HOT) so I need to go work out. Did I really just say that?

Birthdays, Milestones, and Piggie and Elephant

So today is my birthday. And very soon this blog will hit 500 posts. And I always save Piggie and Elephant for the end of the year.

So I don't have a cute pinnable graphic or anything and I don't know all the rules and such about "giveaways" plus it's just a little one ... but leave a comment with your favorite Piggie and Elephant book that you don't already have a hardback copy of. Tomorrow night I'll pick one winner and send it to you. US only (stats show a couple international hits but by FAR most are not). Will need your address eventually. We'll figure that out after a winner is chosen. ;) ;) ;)


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Finally Friday Pins May 17

Breaking cardinal blogger rule and posting twice! But I won't again. Probably until next week. In case you were interested and in need of something last minute ... here is the Scaredy Squirrel booklet.




So summery.


It's my birthday on Sunday. Shall I have one of these? Or perhaps I shall remain in denial about WHAT birthday it is and instead celebrate almost 500 posts. Of me blathering. Thank you for your patience. ;)





I love this idea. How shall I tweak it for next year ...

5th Grade Summer Reading Book Trailers & Can I Still Be Cool

if I completely spaced on Children's Book Week? But have these?

Please ignore the trash can and mess as we are had the volunteer luncheon in the library today AND we are preparing to clear out everything for new carpet. Yay for new carpet. Yay for volunteers (the entire school's volunteers, not just the library of course). Not yay for loads of people eating in the library and spilling things or leaving crumbs behind. Not yay for clearing out everything. Anyway. Completely non-styled photo here.


And ... anything I should have added? By the time you see this it will already be a finished activity. But comment with any additions and I'll add them!
Also ... how do I fix this embed code? Too big to fit properly. I tried changing the pixels but I couldn't make it work and still show the entire symbaloo. It would just show a corner.

Not Posed Ad for (some) Interactive Ebooks

Well ... technically it was a little bit posed. Cause they (sister, her three kids, plus one of my other sister's little ones) had just finished it when I was like "Oh! Wait! Let me get a pic!" And luckily they were still so in to the story that they sat still. And read/watched The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore again. It's the perfect example of an interactive ebook. A beautiful story and fun value added elements in the electronic version that you can't get in the book version. But not so many that it becomes a book more than a story.



Dear Teachers, I know the Reflector app is not working well so that we can use one iPad to project up on the screen. And the white adapter (I cannot remember what it is called) falls out and is a frustration. We MUST let the kids see this one. We MUST!