Fitz’s Faves Jr: E’s review of Ivy and Bean, by Annie Barrows

April 24, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows I gave Ivy and Bean five stars because Ivy and Bean are two girls who never meant to be friends. Ivy is learning to be a witch. And Bean gets in a lot of trouble. Ivy is an only child and Bean has an older sister named Nancy, in […]

Saintly Spotlight: Jack

April 23, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Welcome to the Saintly Spotlight! The brilliant idea of Jack the library intern, The Saintly Spotlight is an opportunity for St. Anne’s-Belfield School’s most passionate readers to share their reading lives with their school community. All students in grades 5-8 are welcome to apply by customizing a Google Slides template with common reading related questions. […]

Insta Review: Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani

April 20, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram One of the best pen-pal novels I’ve read yet. Meena and River choose each other’s names randomly in a school penpal program, and have no idea what their correspondence will turn into. Her Indian family […]

Saintly Spotlight: Brock

April 17, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Insta Review: Out of My Mind, by Sharon Draper

April 13, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind is so beloved, there’s nothing new that I can say about it here. I’ve been waiting for what feels like years to read this novel, but I’m not exaggerating […]

Saintly Spotlight: Willow

April 11, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

4th and 5th Grade Book Club: A Wrinkle in Time

April 10, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

In a now infamous quote, Madeline L’Engle once wrote, “We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.” Last week, we put our talents to good use – creating a special celebration to help younger readers gets excited about a classic story that has been beloved […]

Saintly Spotlight: Spicer

April 5, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Ms. Fitz has Read… April 4, 2018

April 4, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

March’s update went out the window with Spring Break, but I’m back for our beginning of April check-in! As of this morning, I have read 66 books this year. I’m feeling good about that number and my progress toward my student challenge of 100 books by the end of the school year. I know that […]