Winter-Worldwide: Celebrating Multiple Cultures This Season!
Whether you celebrate Bohdi Day or Kwanzaa, this month's newsletter is stuffed with all sorts of goodies to make your holidays cheerful and bright! Enjoy!
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Vanessa Brantley Newton: Illustrator Extraordinaire
There are some days that you anticipate and fantasize about: Christmas as a kid, wedding days as adults, birth of children as parents. Yesterday, I had one of those days...better than Christmas, definitely better than my wedding day --as I'm happily divorced, and just shy of the birth of my children! I had the wonderful Vanessa Brantley Newton in my library. Ever since I read her and Thelma Godin's Hula Hoopin' Queen , I've been in love! Less than 24 hrs ago, my dream came true. Miss Vee showed up like a calm sunrise and then shook the heavens with her amazing author/illustrator presentation! I still have wondrous chills when I think about it! Please look below and enjoy the highlights from her visit as it forever changed my and my students' lives! Principal & Vanessa Assistant Principal & Vanessa Me & my Soul Sister Just like myself, Vanessa is passionate about the need for DIVERSE BOOKS and granted me a brief glimpse into her passionate sta...
December Library Newsletter!
I love this month! It's short, cold and full of festivities! Please enjoy my newsletter, but more importantly enjoy your loved ones...those you know and are yet to know.
Merry Christmas Everyone...You're in for a special treat!
Here's the lesson for this month...a persuasive letter to Santa Claus! The prizes are as follows 1st place: the full collection of Diary of the Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney 2nd place: the full collection of The Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renee Russell 3rd place: the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi Some proof that even teachers can get in on the UGLY SWEATER fun! And this was my attempt at a Christmas Display. I had lights but had to remove them for a fire-safety measures: Here's my "Holiday Greeting" to you all! This was just a quirky video find...it's spunky humor based on two holiday classics!
First Lady: Mrs. Obama Reads "The Night Before Christmas"
Thank you for reading to our children, Mrs. Obama! I've prayed for you and your family! I wish you a wonderful and blessed Christmas season. Merry Christmas and hang in there! Godspeed! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! P.S. She reads interactively, just like my beautiful mother does to her grandchildren! Cocoa mamas are awesome like that! (All reading mothers, actually!)
Happiness is the TRUTH!
The HOLIDAYS are upon us! Keep the season joyful and full of good humor, energy, vibes, WHATEVER! When you spread joy, only good can come from it! Fight the blues away and celebrate the love of mankind everywhere! Click below!