There were meetings going on in the library a couple of days this week, so I became a "traveling librarian." I took my show on the road and visited classrooms. We did some fun activities to fill the time since we were missing book checkout. Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen Extra Yarn tells the story of a girl named Annabelle who lives in a dreary town where the only colors you could see was the white of snow and the black of soot. She knits sweaters for herself, her dog, her classmates, her family, and people in her neighborhood, but her ball of yarn never runs out. So she knits things for inanimate objects such as houses and trees and birdhouses and mailboxes. When an evil archduke finds out about Annabelle and her magic yarn, he offers her a large sum of money for it. When she refuses, he becomes furious and will do anything to get the yarn for himself. It was a great story about kindness, good/evil, generosity, and making the world more beautif...
Mrs. Ferguson shares booklists, websites, and what is going on in the Blessed Sacrament School library. BSS is a Preschool - Grade 8 Catholic school located in Walpole, Massachusetts.