Jean Darnell: Awaken Librarian

Welcome to my 2015 SPOOKTACULAR: The Library of Gloom!!! For those that follow me, you know how much I enjoy this time of the year! I've created a non-fiction, but superbly spooky interactive video! Scan the code below and BE FoReWaRnEd!!! This post does contain frightening and unnerving videos as well as kid-friendly resources. However, please take caution if you're sensitive to scary movies...as there's plenty of that here! This next little feature is specifically for my students who wonder where "Robert the Doll" is...here's the book that started the madness about Robert! Here's a classic video on carving pumpkins... I've grown to LOVING GO NOODLE! For Halloween, they have a #GoNoodleween contest! Here's our "Bones" doing his dance! Lol! :) Need some tips on How to Write Horror? See what R.L. Stine says when writing fiction... I love R.L. Stein-- and it's not because Goosebumps is coming out o...

This post does contain frightening and unnerving videos as well as kid-friendly resources. However, please take caution if you're sensitive to scary movies...as there's plenty of that here! This week's one of my favorites for class activities! I like seeing little ones get slightly spooked! Their innocence is exciting and rewarding...:) However, if any of your babies begin acting like these in the video below, then... Creepy Kids - Children in horror from Peter Schneider on Vimeo . Here's a link to a great "skeleton" lesson on " How to Write Your Own Scary Story... " And to follow suit, here's a wonderful reading of Edgar A. Poe's "The Raven." Click on the little sound icon on the top left of the page. To get the students EXCITED about SPOOKTACULAR reads, I created the following display and gave this Scary Stories to Read hand-out : Anyone one of my kiddos, who paid attention in the library, KNOWS why I...