career and community helper room

March 22, 2026June 8, 2026 ~ Ms. P. ~ Leave a comment

Our library partnered with the counselor to host community helpers and volunteers discussing their careers at our Career Fair (ish). To support student reading about careers before the fair we posted this room on our library site. There are lots of great book read alouds out there, though many of them do focus on younger learners. Check out some images below of our fair in the library, students were thrilled to meet our volunteers and try some of their tools of the trade. Happy reading! https://bit.ly/bgbsjobs

miss spider’s tea party & spider bitroom

October 16, 2025November 13, 2025 ~ Ms. P. ~ Leave a comment

Spiders Aren’t Spooky if you celebrate with Miss Spider’s Tea Party. In October, we use my spider bitroom to explore both fiction and nonfiction titles about spiders. We culminate our spider reading with a tea party just like Miss Spider! Parents helped us by donating treats and we created mini-donut spiders (edible eyeballs are a hit).

gingerbread man jolliness

December 19, 2024December 10, 2025 ~ Ms. P. ~ Leave a comment

As part of our approach to winter break we enjoyed stories and drawing the gingerbread man. One grade also did a scavenger hunt around the school looking for him as he ran from the classroom to the office… and then back to the classroom where they found a bag of skittles ready to add as buttons for a lucky cookie waiting in the library. Students decorated their gingerbread and shared their favorite version of the books we read about him.

To warm up for the gingerbread activities we used the cocoa and gingerbread bitroom I made a few years ago. A local bakery made us 100 cookies and parents donated the toppings. “Best day ever,” according to one second grader.