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elementary school librarian! gotta add more to this bio, work in progress

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on the other end of the spectrum, I have students who think snow is “fictional” 🥴

23.02.2026 16:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I loved all of these! my students and I were cheering for all the titles we had predicted! If you don’t mind sharing, how many books would you estimate you read? my kiddos were FASCINATED by the idea of the committee work!

27.01.2026 03:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

oh i love this! thanks for sharing!

27.01.2026 02:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve had family visit from outside the country & casually ask me to drive them from L.A. to Chicago (um, no?), then roll their eyes and say “ok, San Francisco then, that’s still CA, right?” they are BLOWN AWAY when i explain that’s still an 8-hr drive. it really IS hard to conceptualize the size.

22.01.2026 04:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

ooh i love this so much!

10.01.2026 03:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love especially when my students catch me there 😂
“Ms Q,what are you DOING here??”

07.01.2026 00:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

love this idea, thanks for sharing!

09.12.2025 04:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a homemade costume of a teacher’s desk with a large anthropomorphic sandwich on top

a homemade costume of a teacher’s desk with a large anthropomorphic sandwich on top

at sone point I’ll ask one of my students to help me take a picture of me WEARING it, but here’s Mr. S, by popular demand 😂

31.10.2025 17:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

even without any context, I fully agree, shenanigans abound in just a few minutes with Canva 😂

31.10.2025 02:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

love this checklist! (and of course the comment at the bottom ❤️)

29.10.2025 20:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

arghh I both love and hate when that happens!

29.10.2025 15:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m thinking Drama continues to draw attention because it overlaps into elementary AND middle school collections, but it IS fascinating!

29.10.2025 01:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the book cover for Monica Arnaldo’s book “Mr. S”, featuring smiling children and a giant anthropomorphic sandwich on a teacher’s desk

the book cover for Monica Arnaldo’s book “Mr. S”, featuring smiling children and a giant anthropomorphic sandwich on a teacher’s desk

“but Ms. Q, you ALWAYS dress as a character from a book” 🥺
the book they chose:

28.10.2025 15:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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a sandwich stacked on top of each other with lettuce tomatoes and ham Alt: a sandwich stacked on top of each other with lettuce tomatoes and ham

tinkering with it as we speak. sigh. the things i let my students talk me into.

28.10.2025 02:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

😂 when my friend also became a elem school librarian and asked me for advice, I told her: “I don’t think there’s any way to prepare you for the level of celebrity you’ll be facing”
…and a year later she admitted that even with my warning, she was not, in fact, prepared 😳😂

15.10.2025 00:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m always genuinely fascinated by these peeks into the “author world”✍️

I’ve always thought this would make a great math project/word problem for students, too!

17.09.2025 15:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i do say it like everyone else has also replied (huh-MODGE-en-us) buuut… I *have* heard some people say homo-JEEN-yus, and i do have to admit it pairs nicely with hetero-JEEN-yus 🤷🏻‍♀️

26.08.2025 00:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(if it wouldn’t scare my littles, that is)

04.08.2025 15:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

my library has a 17ft ceiling and i would LOVE to prop a 12ft buddy in one of my corners 😂

04.08.2025 15:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

same, in the kitchen! 😂
my most embarrassing: opening oven, sliding out rack to remove cookies, dropping mitt, bending down, and BURNING MY FOREHEAD ON THE OVEN RACK 🤦🏻‍♀️
colleague, that week: “ooh, was this a curling iron mishap?”
me: “uh, sure, let’s go with that.”

04.08.2025 00:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

…aaaand while it never actually scared me into NOT being barefoot, I’m forever remembering the scolding, as I have managed to burn/bruise/cut my feet ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS 🤦🏻‍♀️

04.08.2025 00:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

oh nooo! my mom would always scare us with a story of “you should never cook barefoot, my cousin once spilled an entire pasta pot of boiling water on her feet!”

04.08.2025 00:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this is so exquisitely Argentine

27.07.2025 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oof, dehydration-related seizures happening on my watch during recess duty is a horror I’ll never burn out of my brain - I’m absolutely the annoying adult nagging students (and colleagues) with ARE YOU ALL DRINKING ENOUGH WATER??

26.07.2025 02:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

one of my favorite readalouds with my library students, and *I* still laugh every time I read it

26.07.2025 02:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

loved sharing this book with my students ❤️
whew, what different kinds of discussions this might spark with kiddos today!

09.07.2025 19:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

usually in my couch cushions 😑

19.05.2025 03:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oooh, she looks like an ERONDÍNA to me, but I just named my new car BETTY last month, I might not give the best car-christening advice 😂

26.04.2025 01:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

oh NOOOOOOOO

25.03.2025 01:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

thank you for sharing this, i needed to hear it today

04.02.2025 17:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0