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It's so much fun celebrating special events throughout the year with our students in the library, classrooms and even while learning at home. There are many events coming up over the next few months and one that we are most excited about is National Crayon Day!

Each year, on March 31st children and adults alike, pick up their favorite colors for National Crayon Day. Opening up a box of crayons opens up a world of imagination and hours of fun. Wax and chalk-based crayons have been used by artists around the world for centuries.

We can't wait to celebrate and this year we plan to make it a celebration for our entire school community, preschool to 12th grade.

As we get ready for National Crayon Day, one of my favorite ways to celebrate special events, and for our students to learn about these topics, is through books.

I have gathered together a wonderful collection that I can't wait to share with our students and teachers as we celebrate National Crayon Day and creativity. And being a preschool to 12th grade school community, it's fun to share picture books and nonfiction with all of them in fun and engaging ways.

Our friends at Follett even put together a list in special Crayon Day Titlewave Booklist for all of us to use. I found lots of great new ones to add to our collection from this list.

One of my new favorites is The Crayon Man...The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons.

When I look for new titles on Titlewave, I love it when I see Free Teaching Resources available for download.

The one included in Titlewave with The Crayon Man is amazing!

It's 27 pages of ideas, resources, activities and more for teachers, librarians, families and of course, our kids.

And remember, Titlewave is perfect for teachers too. With so many great ideas and resources, it's a wonderful teacher tool and one that can be used while planning and collaborating too.

I also created a choice board, Let's Celebrate National Crayon Day.

You will find the Let's Celebrate National Crayon Day Choice Board link to share with your students here. If you would like to make changes, you can make a copy here.

It is filled with lots of fun resources and interactive activities for all learners.

It includes activities too.

You will find them here on the KidLitTV site.

I used Collections by Destiny® to create a collection of Crayon Activities, Resources and Fun For National Crayon Day that you will find here.

With tons of science, craft and STEM ideas and projects, I have been collaborating with our teachers and students on how we will celebrate at our school.

One thing we are doing (and several weeks early to give families time) is collecting used crayons. I used this little graphic on social media and in our online newsletters. Teachers also printed it off and sent it home with students.

It's been so much fun watching them bring in their used crayons and even more fun...

...seeing what they create!

There is a lot more to come on what is happening at our school. You can catch these ideas on the March 10, 2021 episode of Teachers Ask: New Ways To Use Old Crayons.

I can't wait to share ideas with all of you in this Crayola Education Facebook Event. You can join us here.

This year, more than ever, our students, teachers and school communities need chances to be creative, innovative and have fun. No matter where students are, at school or at home, Crayon Day is a special way to kick off creativity all throughout the year.

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Let's Celebrate National Crayon Day With Special Activities, Books, a Choice Board and Collections by Destiny®

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It's almost March and that means one of my favorite holidays, St. Patrick's Day. This one will join other special events in March including Women's History Month, Read Across America, National Crayon Day and the beginning of spring.

As I put all of these together, I wanted to share the choice board for St. Patrick's Day.

You will find the one above that includes PebbleGo here to share with your students. They will have to login to PebbleGo but everything else is open. If you would like to make edits, you will find the link here.

I also put together one without PebbleGo. Your students can use this link and if you want to make changes you can make a copy here.
Later today, I will share the March Choice Board which will include this one for St. Patrick's Day. I can't wait to share it...and I sure can't wait to share it with our kids!

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March is right around the corner, friends. I have put together Our March Choice Boards to share with all of you.

March has a few special celebrations and events. I shared those in the March Choice Board too.
Let's start with Our March Choice Board. You will find it here to share with students. If you want to make changes, you can make a copy here.
Within the March Choice Board, there are several other choice boards. I am going to include these in the list below. I hope this is helpful if you are wanting to change some things around or make additions.

Let's start with the Learn about and celebrate special events in March column.

Let's Celebrate National Crayon Day post here.

Let's Celebrate Women's History Month post here.

Celebrate Reading Is For Everyone for Read Across America post here. We are so excited about this program and we kick it off on February 22, 2021.

Take A Virtual Field Trip Around the World post here.

And just as a reminder, remember to share it with your students by Publishing it to the web and sharing that link. It will just show the slide when you share it that way.

Please let me know if you have any questions or need help. I am always happy to share and help you in any way.
Have fun getting ready for March with your learners at school and for those learning virtually too.

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It's Time For Our March Choice Board, Friends!

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Let’s Celebrate Women’s History Month Choice Board...Including Free Access To Great Women From History In PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next!

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Presidents' Day Choice Board for Grades TK-3

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To Share... TK-3 Let's Learn About Our Presidents, Vice Presidents and First Ladies

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Presidents' Day Choice Board for Grades 4-6

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TO Share...4-6 Let's Learn About Our Presidents, Vice Presidents and First Ladies

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Where On Google Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

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Where On Google Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

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Where On Google Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Choice Board

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Let's Take A Trip Around The World With Virtual Field Trips

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Let's Take A Trip Around The World With Virtual Fields (2 Pages)

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To Share... Happy Valentine's Day Choice Board

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Happy Valentine’s Day Celebrate this special day by reading, learning, making, technology, singing and fun! Sing Along & Listen to these Valentine’s Day Books Can you make a cookie for Valentine’s Day? Have fun celebrating with these online places to create and play.

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To Share #1 February 2021 Choice Board (With PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next To Fit)  

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Our Feburary Choice Board Learn about and celebrate special events in February Coding Making Take A Virtual Field Trip Around the World Technology Fun Where reading, learning, making, coding, technology and singing can take you on adventures all month long! Our February Choice Board Here’s a codi...

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New Year's and Lunar New Year Choice Boards

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New Year's and Lunar New Year Choice Boards To Share, 2021

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Kwanzaa New Year’s and Lunar New Year Learn about these two holidays through books, articles, games, songs, art and more. Click on the to take you to this slide at anytime. New Year’s Choice Board Lunar New Year Choice Board

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Martin Luther King Jr. Choice Board To Share

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Let’s Learn About Martin Luther King Jr. We celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18th. Listen to his I Have A Dream speech here

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Our January Choice Board Where reading, learning, making, coding, technology and singing can take you on adventures all month long! Learn about special events in January Coding Making Read Alouds and Sing Alongs Technology Fun Created by Shannon McClintock Miller Make paper and digital snowflakes...

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12 Days of Making With Our friends at Capstone have brought together 24 amazing eBooks for 12 Days of Making for ALL students. Click on the day to find two eBooks and activities around the making topic. Have fun making, friends. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Coding Origami Drawing Cardboard Nature B...

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Our Coding Choice Boards TK-12 Learn and create code through stories, music, games, videos and more. Created by Shannon McClintock Miller, The Library Voice®

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 Rotation #4 Library Rotation (December Holidays and Hour of Code)  

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Our Library Rotation #4 December TK/K 1st 2nd 5th 4th 3rd

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Our December Choice Board Where reading, learning, creating, coding and singing can take you on adventures all month long! Coding Hour of Code is in December. Learn about different holidays and winter Making Read Alouds & Sing Alongs Technology Created by Shannon McClintock Miller

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Welcome to our Virtual Makerspace where you can create, imagine, read, learn, discover and more! And one of the best parts….It’s open all day long! Have fun, friends. Explore the Coding Choice Board Chrome Music Lab Build with LEGOs online Design a poster, card, story and more in Buncee © The Lib...

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Our Thanksgiving Choice Board Play a BreakoutEDU game for Thanksgiving

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Our Holiday Choice Board Collection To Share

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Kwanzaa Our Holiday Choice Boards Collection Learn about these different holidays through books, articles, games, songs, art and more. Click on the to take you to this slide at anytime. Christmas Diwali Hanukkah Kwanzaa New Year’s Lunar New Year Click here for more holidays!

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Learn and create code through stories, music, games, videos and more. Our Coding Choice Board TK-3 Learn and create code through stories, music, games, videos and more. Learn All About Coding Play & Create Coding Games Make a Song with Chrome Music Lab Learn to Code with the Pre-Reader Coding Exp...

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Our Coding & Computer Science Choice Board, Grades 3-6

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Code Ozobot with Block Code Our Coding Choice Board 3-6 Learn and create code through stories, music, games, videos and more! Read & Learn About Coding Play & Create Coding Games Use OzoBlockly code blocks to program Ozobot to travel home. Play Bits and Bricks from LEGO here Click here to learn h...

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Elementary Coding Choice Boards Learn and create code through stories, music, games, videos and more.

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Next week, we recognize our veterans on Veterans Day on November 11. This is always a very special day for us as our students learn, read and create thanks for our veterans here in Iowa and across the country.

As we prepare with activities we have planned for our students, we are bringing together resources to learn about this day too.

I have created two Veterans Day Choice Boards. One for our preschool to 2nd grade and...

...one for our 3rd grade and up.

The Veterans Day Choice Boards include PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next articles about Veterans Day and U.S. Symbols. They also include several Capstone Interactive eBooks we have within our library collection at Van Meter.

I have included Veteran's Day, the Cantata Learning story and song, which is always a favorite. You will find it here on YouTube.

Even though the Veterans Day Choice Boards hold links and resources specific to our school and library collection, you can make a copy and add links to your PebbleGo and even images that link to other resources you may have access to as well.

If you need some ideas for what eBooks and eResources to add, check out this collection in EPIC! Books here.

You can make a copy of the Veterans Day Choice Board for preschool to 2nd grade here.

You can make a copy of the Veterans Day Choice Board for 3rd grade on up here.

And a little tip when sharing choice boards with littles and those students who are using hand held devices.

You can take the published link from the choice board and use a tool like QR Code Monkey to create a QR code. Then share this with the students within the classroom, library and even online through their Google Classroom, Seesaw and other platforms.

We do this a lot with our littles and their iPads. It's super helpful.

I have included both of our Veterans Day Choice Boards in our newly updated Veterans Day Collection by Destiny, along with several wonderful resources for students, teachers and families.

You will find the Veterans Day Collection here. This is public and there for you to use and share with your school community. Please let me know if there are other resources we should add to the Collection.

Tomorrow, we are kicking off a week-long project that all of our students and teachers will be participating in. We will be creating Veterans Day Buncee cards for the veterans at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, Iowa.

You can see slide I am putting together for this project and I will share this with all of you tomorrow after school so you can replicate for your school community.

One other activity for Veterans Day I added to the Collection is the Veterans Day Origami Heart from our friends at PebbleGo.

You will f ind it here on their site.

I hope you find these resources and project idea helpful as you teach your students about Veterans Day and commemorate this special day and all of the veterans that have served together. Together, let's thank them for their service and commitment to our country.

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Veterans Day Choice Boards, Collection by Destiny and a Buncee Project Idea

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Beth Kingsley Practice your typing skills with Typing Rocket Jr. and Typing Rocket Draw in November, friends Click here for the November Collection by Destiny Our November Choice Board Where reading, learning, creating, coding and singing can take you on adventures all month long! Use OzoBlockly ...

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Our Halloween Can-You-Find-It Buncee Project

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Copy of Rotation 3.5 (November) Library Related Arts

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Can you code Codey to grab all of the Halloween treats? Sing along with Emily Arrow to How To Make Friends With A Ghost Practice your typing skills with Ghost Typing Jr. and Ghost Typing Draw for Halloween! This is a Quiver AR activity. Click on the pumpkin to download and print the coloring shee...

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Our October Choice Board Where reading, learning, creating and singing can take you on adventures all month long! Sing along with Emily Arrow to How To Make Friends With A Ghost Practice your typing skills with Ghost Typing Jr. and Ghost Typing Click here to share your voice in the election at Pe...

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L ~LET’S CELEBRATE the work of AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR~ TODD PARR Download & Print Coloring Sheets Watch! Listen to Todd Parr read, It’s Okay to Make Mistakes Draw a Self Portrait like Todd Parr! Click here to join the Flip Event on Sept 30 at 12pm CST Watch ToddWorld Draw FACES like Todd Parr! Watch!

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Rotation 1 Van Meter School Weekly Library Events & Monthly Celebrations

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All 12 Weeks of Virtual Camp Adventures included on this choice board. 

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Our Library Virtual Events for April 19-23 April 19th 2:00pm Virtual Pop-In Storytime here. April 20th 2:00pm Virtual Pop-In Storytime here.. April 21st 12:00pm CST Special Earth Day Event with California State Park. Join here. 2:00pm Virtual Pop-In Storytime here.. April 22nd 2:00pm Virtual Pop-...

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Our TK/K Grade Virtual Field Trip To The Toledo Zoo Choice Board

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Let’s Learn About Animal Habitats we will see on our virtual field trip to the Toledo Zoo! Click here to see a map of the Toledo Zoo. Can you find some of the habitats you will see? Learn about the different animal habitats on PebbleGo Click on any of the book covers below to read and listen to t...

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Happy Earth Day! Let’s celebrate caring for the Earth with these eBooks, songs, PebbleGo & pledge activity from Capstone. Sing along to Earth Day and fill out your 2020 Earth Day Pledge

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Explore, make, play and watch on Tate Art! Our Art Choice Board Research and learn about Methods of Making Art in PebbleGo Learn with the Columbus Museum of Art. Create art with found art and everyday objects with Aminahs World. Paint online with Tate Paint Learn, Create & Play on Puppet Toy Theatre

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Our Virtual Makerspace (Elementary Master) 

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Welcome to our Virtual Makerspace where you can create, imagine, read, learn, discover and more! And one of the best parts….It’s open all day long! Have fun, friends. Explore the Coding Symbaloo Chrome Music Lab Build with LEGO’s online Chrome Music Lab Song Maker Username: capstonecamp Password:...

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Let’s Celebrate Dot Day To celebrate Dot Day, let’s make our mark on the world by clicking on the images below to read, sing, create, play, and more. To kick off Dot Day, listen to a read aloud of The Dot. Draw with Peter Reynolds on Ready! Set! Draw! Use a paper coffee filter, coaster or piece o...

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Let’s Celebrate Children’s Book Week! Explore the choice board as you READ and LISTEN to children’s books...and then CREATE your own! Read Listen Create Storyline Online Reading Fun Symbaloo! A Collection of Online Read Alouds Find someone to read aloud to you! Listen to stories read by astronaut...

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Virtual Field Trip with Kate Leeming Choice Board

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On May 20th at 9:00am, we will have a virtual field trip with Kate Leeming, who is an explorer and adventurer. Kate has cycled a distance greater than twice around the world at the Equator. Learn about Kate on this Choice Board so you are ready for our time with her. Read about Kate’s world-first...

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For the last week of school! 2020

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Last Week of School Field Trips, Van Meter May 2020

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Virtual Field Trips Schedule & Fun! Let’s celebrate our last week of school with several virtual field trips, an author visit and a visit with an adventurer! It’s going to be a fun week of learning and connecting. You can learn, read and explore the Choice Boards to learn more too. Click here to ...

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Westward Expansion

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Westward Expansion Choice Board, 3rd Grade (Volk's Copy) 

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Westward Expansion Choice Board START HERE This will give you the background of why people moved west. When you are finished with the video, feel free to travel around the choice board to learn more. Click on the painting American Progress by John Gast from 1872 to learn more from Mrs. Volk about...

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Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grade

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2nd Grade Virtual Field Trip To Bloomsbury Farm in Atkins, Iowa

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Let’s Learn About Bloomsbury Farm Choice Board On Friday, May 1, we will be Zooming with Bloomsbury Farm. Use this Choice Board to learn more about farms, planting, animals and butterflies. After our virtual field trip, you can even create a Buncee about what you learned and loved. Learn about fa...

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Let’s Celebrate Children’s Book Week! Explore the choice board as you READ and LISTEN to children’s books...and then CREATE your own! Read Listen Create Storyline Online Reading Fun Symbaloo! A Collection of Online Read Alouds Find someone to read aloud to you! Listen to stories read by astronaut...

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1st Grade are focusing on ocean animals for their field trip.

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Our 1st Grade Virtual Field Trip To The Toledo Zoo Choice Board

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Let’s Learn About The Ocean Animals we will meet on our virtual field trip to the Toledo Zoo! Learn about coral reefs . Learn about penguins Learn about sharks Learn about sea turtles Learn about different fish Click here to see a map of the Toledo Zoo. Learn about whales Learn about ocean animal...