March Winners!

Our big blog winner for the month of March and a winner of a $50.00 iTunes educational app card is:

Jill

Winners of 5 smaller prizes are:

Stephanie
Karen
Dawn Ann
Theresa
Mary R.

Thank you all for your contributions to our blog!

Fun Books!

We were able to obtain copies of a couple of the award honor books for 2014. 

We have a copy of Doll Bones, a Newbery Honor Book, and Journey, a Caldecott Honor Book.

We had blogged about both of these books in a posting on January 8th.  We went back and put the names of all who commented on these books into a hat and drew out:

Jeane B. who wins a copy of Bones 

Marilyn who wins a copy of Journey

Thank you to all who commented on the posting!

Spring Has Sprung

Spring is finally here!  

What are some of your favorite aspects of spring?  Budding tulips?  No more driving in the snow?  Longer days?  Basketball?

Pamela's Birthday

Today is Pamela's birthday!

Happy birthday to her!

Giving Away the End

When my kids were in high school, they used to laugh about a driver's ed teacher who loved to annoy the English teachers. During the time of year when classes were reading Of Mice and Men,  he would stick his head in classroom doors and yell, "George kills Lennie" and then scurry down the hall.

How do you feel about spoilers?  Do you try very hard to keep away from them?  Have you noticed that Goodreads encourages members to clearly indicate **spoiler** when they are writing reviews and that reviewers can hide the spoiler so that they won't ruin the book for others?  

Or do you not care about spoilers?  When you're about half way through a book, do you ever flip to the back and read the ending?

What about spoilers in movies?  Have you ever had a movie spoiled because someone told you the ending?  I'm glad that no one spoiled The Sixth Sense for me before I saw it---because I was totally surprised about the ending!  :-)

Janice's Birthday

Today is Janice's birthday!

Happy birthday to her!

Sarah's Birthday

Today is Sarah's birthday!

Happy birthday to her!

Dr. Seuss Activities

What are your Dr. Seuss plans for this week?

Newest Blog Winners

The blog winners for the month of February are:

Grand Prize Winner of a $50.00 iTunes Educational App Card is Susette!

Winners of 5 smaller prizes are:
Janice
Margo
Jeanene P.
Karen
Linda H.

Thank you all for your comments on our blog!

Today is Theodor Seuss Geisel's birthday!

Happy birthday to him!