This past week, author Nancy Cavanaugh came for a visit with our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Ms. Cavanaugh is the author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet and Always, Abigail. It was a great visit. She walked us through her journey as a writer (18 years from start to first book!) and talked with the students about how the writing process is very much like fixing an engine. You need to be willing to take it apart and put it all together again. It was a great talk not just on writing but also on reaching for one's dreams. *Note to self: it is impossible to take good pictures in a sunny library
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I don't know about you. When I was in elementary school, library time was all about sitting around the record player with enormous headphones on, listening to stories. Or fighting to get one of the last remaining Babysitters Club books. On very special days, I got to help boot up Oregon Trail on the computers. But no matter what the activity, library days were a half hour of books, and our librarian, Mrs. McFarland, was never seen outside the library confines. Times have changed. Yes, Longfellow students still have their library time 30 minutes a week, and we do talk about books, but library and librarians have become so much more. We're learning computer skills, accessing new sources of information, producing videos, researching, coding, creating things hands on. I'm a frequent visitor in the classroom and lab. It's not your grandma's library... but we do still have those enormous headphones. It might be time to part with those.
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