Garden City Library Goings-On

  Here are some of the most recent books I've read and recommend for my students. (I read a lot more books for grownups than usual this ...

During some of our first class meetings, I read "Rude Cakes" by Rowboat Watkins. We DON'T want to be rude cakes ... we want to...

For "You Be the Author" week, students could choose a pen name, create an original book title within a chosen genre, or come up wi...

A couple of weeks ago, I assigned kids to learn or teach someone how to do or create something. Here are some of the activities they chose: ...

For one assignment, students could choose a character, a setting, or a genre to describe in words or pictures. Here are some of the characte...