Insta Review: Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram We’ve all dreamt about it – picking up an instrument and magically just knowing what to do, everyone around us exclaiming “She’s a prodigy!” Apple has the same dream as she scrimps, saves, and begs […]

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New Beginnings for the Start of the School Year

“Who knows? You might just smash that geography exam tomorrow / and rearrange the entire principal’s honor roll. / A fresh cut does something to your brain, right? / It hooks up your intellectual. / You’re a star. / A brilliant, blazing star.” Sharing one of my very favorite books about new beginnings with fourth […]

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Summer Reading Bingo

Time to show off all that #STABSummerReading! Ask your third or fourth grade student what they learned about their classmates during our Summer Reading Bingo game this week. From reading to baby brothers and sisters to drooling all over a library book after an impromptu nap, it has been so much fun hearing about all of […]

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Insta Review: Tall Story, by Candy Gourlay

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Tall Story was suggested to me in a librarian thread about stories centered around characters that feel like they just don’t fit in. And it has a double dose of that outsider feeling – American […]

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Library Interns are Growing!

  I’m too proud to humble brag, so get ready for a plain old regular obnoxious brag. My hard-working library interns have created a program so fun, welcoming, and rewarding, that we have received seven inquiries about intern training already! Luckily, Brock has prepared an application for them. And it’s only six pages long 😉

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#STABSummerReading: July 2018

Have you kept up with all of the fun on social media with #STABSummerReading? While I’ve had a nice, slow, unplugged summer, St. Anne’s-Belfield School readers have been reading the books that they love all over the globe. The posts, emails, messages, and letters (snail mail! I still can’t get over it!) kept rolling in […]

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Do You Believe in Classroom Vibes?

Do you buy into the idea of “classroom vibes”? Tone, feel, juju, essence, decor….whatever you call it, I think it can transform the learning experience for a student. To be fair, my interior decorating expertise doesn’t go much past soft and sparkly, but I still set aside a small chunk of my budget to spend […]

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The Summer I Unplugged

I sat criss-cross applesauce on the tile floor, the window open in front of me, a hot breeze winding around my legs. Voices drifted in from the table on the patio below, and every few minutes a burst of deep laughter would float up to my ears. Out the window of the ancient home, set […]

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#STABSummerReading: June 2018

Our community is sharing their summer reading on social media using #stabsummerreading! Follow along on Instagram, Twitter, or on the St. Anne’s-Belfield School Summer Reading page. You can share your #STABSummerReading by posting your book covers, selfies, reviews, recommendations, or just snapshots of you enjoying a good book wherever you might be reading this summer. Post […]

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Insta Review: Once Was a Time, by Leila Sales

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram For fans of Vanessa Stead’s When You Reach Me, Once was a Time offers a similar whirlwind story of unexpected time travel and the surprise ramifications. Charlotte is living an unremarkable life in England in […]

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