We are getting ready for the book fair that we will have during conferences, 

the first week in February. Some of the books at the fair are featured in a video on the scholastic website, there is a link to the page with the videos on the picture below. 

Come to the book fair and check it out.

This week I am sharing some of the 2016 award winning books.

"Finding Winnie, The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear "

is the winner of the Caldecott award and has an interesting background story. 

You can see a YouTube video about it by clicking on the cover of the book below.

Our monsters that were donated to Primary Children's Hospital.

What traditions do you have?

One of my favorite Christmas traditions since I was young has been making gingerbread houses. I was kind of sad when my children got older and didn't really want to make them anymore, but then  we decided it would be fun to still make them not for us but to donate to the festival of trees.

 This is the gingerbread house that we made this year 

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