April Hoy 📚

I'm a school librarian that loves peanut butter, West Virginia, and pink.

[April Hoy 📚 @HoyLibrarian]

Standing ovation 👏 when ⁦@DanGemeinhart⁩ announced he was working on a sequel to Coyote Sunrise! Battle of the Books zoom with an author-great way to end the week for all 7 elementary school 5th graders!

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“Math gives you answers you can’t find any other way!” @LolaMSchaefer tells @LkwdGrant students through her book Lifetime. Math books and math games go together perfectly! @MathforLove

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Entomologists!? What type of kid would like that job? Let’s meet Poppy in A Way With Wild Things! @larissatheule #bookmarks #empathy #nature @LkwdEmerson

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Our @LkwdGrant Battle of the Books team is 31 readers strong! Thx to @LkwdRgrEduFdn for their continued support!!!

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So proud of ALL elementary @LkwdSchools that had a fundraiser for this first library in a refugee camp! We are global citizens who learn empathy through books and then are called to action! ❤️ 📖

[Victoria Jamieson @JamiesonV]

Omar Mohamed (@dantey114 ) is returning to Dadaab refugee camp this month to open the very first library there. Follow @refugee_strong to learn more, including a live stream of the event!

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Dynamic shelving vs Static shelving 📚 As librarians, how we present the books matters to our students!

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“Oh my WOW 🤩” when learning about new dinosaur discoveries!

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@xialaoshi_lkwd @Lkwd_LHS 1 so cool!

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“Reading IS the empathy project. Reading about different people, in different places, with different struggles. This is what will save us.” Barbara Kingsolver @CuyahogaLib 🙌

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Our @LkwdSchools preschoolers are using critical thinking and creativity to get their pumpkins 🎃 off the table!

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Battle of the Books is getting started for @LkwdSchools !! HUGE thanks to @LKWDRANGERSFdn for funding this district-wide reading club and competition a 5th yr in a row 🙏 ❤️ 📚

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Math and reading go together like peas and 🥕 ! @LkwdEmerson 1st graders doing some candy corn monster math!

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Gerald and Pigeon ❤️ being read to! @LkwdEmerson is reading to stuffed animals during library time. They are the best listeners! 👂 📕

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Check out these @LkwdGrant scholars! Social-Emotional Learning through the ABCs of Feeling and then putting our puzzle in ABC order!

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@TLT16 Stags!

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Collaboration at its finest! Working with @KEVAplanks as teams to become ‘KEVAtects’
Boxitects book is our inspiration! @LkwdEmerson

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@MrsCSquires @LkwdGarfield I wish I had recorded his response. Jaw dropping over books. ❤️

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EPIC➡️ New Garfield Student. Library didn’t have his fav books. Amazon speedy order. New books delivered to his classroom. HUGE smile! Welcome to @LkwdGarfield 📚 🏫 ❤️

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@LkwdMissV @LkwdEmerson Too sweet! Don’t make me cry on a Friday night! Love the joy in this kiddo from finding that 🧽 bob book ❤️

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It’s monster 👻 🎃 season! Making the silliest of monsters in Pre-K @LkwdSchools