What a memorable day in my career... my first day as an online school librarian AND (now that the cat's out of the bag) it's the day I can announce that I'm taking on a new challenge for 2020-21... I'll be a Boonsboro Middle School Warrior next year!
How lucky I am to have had such a wonderful experience with my SPMs family, which makes leaving next to unbearable. A little piece of me will ALWAYS be a Springfield Cougar. I love you, Cougars. You'll always be "my" kids. 💙🤍🐾🤍💙
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With the Maryland public school closures extended for four additional weeks, it's more critical than ever that our students have access to high quality eBooks... so here I am again, singing Capstone's praises! In an amazing show of generosity, Capstone has unlocked their ENTIRE eBook collection for students through June 30, 2020. Our students can use their iPads and the Capstone app to access this collection. Here is a quick video with the instructions! Here is the login information:
Username: continue Password: reading It's that simple! Just login to app and read your heart out! If you need additional help accessing these resources with your students, please reach out - I'm just an email away! With the Coronavirus closure for the next two weeks, many authors and their publishers have granted permission via Twitter for teachers to record read-alouds of their books! I knew immediately which book I would select: Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein! This fantastic book details a group of twelve 12-year-olds who are locked in the most technologically advanced library of all time with 24 hours to escape... and the winner gets to be the Mr. Lemoncello spokesperson! I read this book several years ago when it was a WCFL Battle of the Books title. It's fast-paced, funny, and full of puzzles - a perfect read aloud! Listen along with me as I read two new chapters each day, and check out this cool video Mr. Grabenstein put together all about Mr. Lemoncello's Library! UPDATE 6/11/20: Per the publisher guidelines, I removed the link to my read aloud folder at the conclusion of the school year. I hope you enjoyed listening while I read all 56 chapters aloud! It was fun reading to you, even if I discovered that I was not meant to be a voice-actor, HAHA! Thank you for listening!
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT JUST HAPPENED. You guys. They totally surprised me... Mrs. Ruppenthal said that there was a projector issue in a science classroom, so I followed her down to the classroom to fix it (yep, it was that easy). There was no projector problem. There was, however, a huge group of people gathered to surprise me ... I was selected as a finalist for WCPS Teacher of the Year! Literally my face: 😱 That's our superintendent, by the way. No big deal. 😱 😱 😱 I have no idea what he said to me after telling me I was selected as a finalist. It's all a blur! I did manage to hold it together to take pictures with my admin team though... it's easy to be a great teacher with support from great administration! My favorite picture, by far, is the pic with the kids. They are the reason we show up every day. Just look at them: Can you believe this?? I can't. To quote Junie B. Jones, "Wowie wow wow!" What an amazing day!
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About the AuthorHi! Welcome to my blog! My name is Christine Hurley. This is my 17th year of teaching - I've taught Kindergarten, 4th grade, elementary media, and now I am in my 6th year of teaching middle school media! Archives
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