📣Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Collins, and J.A. White for an Advanced Readers Copy of this book!🙋♀️This review is based on my own opinions. 🪦🐱💤💭I was overjoyed when I found out that Alex and Yasmin were back together in this sequel to Nightbooks! I worked with J.A. White during our Meet the Author Club in …
Author: Madelyn Lombardo
ARC Review: No One Leaves the Castle
📣Thank you to @netgalley and Harper Collins for this e-ARC. 🙋♀️This review is my own thoughts and opinions. This was a great whodunnit for middle grade! I stayed up very late reading into the night due to what a page turner this was! There were many twists and turns that were unexpected surprises that made …
Genre-fying/Topic-fying: Picture Book Section
When I first entered my elementary library classroom the picture book section looked like many that I think we have all seen. It was titled the easy section and all the books were organized by author A to Z. I had been in the public library for five years where our patrons are mostly adults …
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NEW Shop, Look, & Return of Content!
Hi all! I wanted to post here and update you all on the new look and the new plan I have in store for this site and for my new shop! Madelyn's Library Programming is changed over to Elementary Biblio-Tech! For the last four years, I have been an elementary teacher-librarian and I do library …
Presenter-21st Century Tools for Little Coders
I got the opportunity to present at the 2018 Youth Services Section conference in Syracuse, NY this past week! Youth Services Section is part of New York Library Association. My topic was '21st Century Tools for Little Coders' I got to show off all cool technology tools to the participates and wanted to share my …
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LIFE SIZE Gaming — How To!
Last summer I made a lot of different Life Size Games and I wanted to go into detail about how each of them were made and give you some resources that may help you to create your own Life Size Games 🙂 I will also give you some dos and don'ts that I ran into …
Animal Inquiry-Week Three
We are continuing with our animal inquiry unit with the end goal of making their own habitat with a choice of animal. This is a session program that will continue for four more weeks after this program. We are continuing with students learning about animals and different habitats so that way they have a clear …
Animal Inquiry-Week Two
I took a lot from a lesson from Picture Perfect STEM Lessons, K-2nd put out by the NSTA for this set of lessons. I will cite it on the bottom. This is a must buy for you! It has amazing lessons and resources in it that you can use line by line or take it and …
Animal Habitat Inquiry Week One
Animal Habitat Inquiry is our Full STEAM Ahead program for grades K-1st. We meet once a week for forty five minutes, and have an end goal usually of a bigger project. For this animal habitat seven week session our end goal is to make our own habitats in a shoe box based on a certain …
Full STEAM Ahead: Little Bits 2nd-4th Graders Week ‘Four’
Due to a snow day we were unable to fully execute our five week session! I had planned for the students to use the fourth and fifth week to create their own project using Little Bits from all they had learned from the checklists that they accomplished. We will have to save that for another …
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Full STEAM Ahead-Little Bits: 2nd-4th Grade Weeks One-Three
For this session program Little Bits was the focus and I had five weeks of activities planned but it depended on how much the students got through that helped me decide when to go forward. Here are the details for the first - third weeks. Discovery and Play Description: Students will have the chance to …
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Full STEAM Ahead-Lego STEAM K-1st: 3rd Week
During this week the students had a fun activity that they worked through called Disaster Island!! Here are the details 🙂 Students will build an island and then be given a situation that they will have to manipulate their island to whatever situation is given. Students will work individually on their islands. What is needed? …
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