Garden City Library Goings-On

During the year, students in grades K-2 create pages for “books” based on mentor texts (aka readalouds that model concepts).  Our first 2025...

The first activity we did in the older grades this year was mapping the library, recording on a diagram where each section of books lives. H...

I can recommend books all day long, but sometimes (often?) kids' opinions and tastes differ greatly from mine. So I have students in gra...

The last box of books that I bought with book fair money has been unpacked ( purchases from the spring are listed here ), as well as the one...

Over the summer, I read dozens of books to prep for Mock Caldecott and Mock Sibert; these were my favorites. All images and summaries from G...