In the SRES Media Center, we are conducting the Pumpkin Jack experiment where students watch a pumpkin decompose in a jar over several months. Mold starting growing on Pumpkin Jack's stem during week 1 and has spread to his mouth and chin during week 2. @SERaleighES

Today we had our Hispanic Heritage Month Parade. The students and staff were excited to celebrate the countries that they learned about Many dressed in their cultural garments to celebrate! #HispanicHeritageMonth2022 #LionsDen #CelebrateDiversity @WCPSS_TitleI @wcpss @SERPromise

This week in the library, students are learning about Equatorial Guinea, the only African country with Spanish as their official language. @SERaleighES

We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in the library. Each week, a different children's author is featured on the morning announcements and in the library.

This week in the media center, we are revisiting the meaning of our pledge, reviewing expectations, and of course checking out books! @SERaleighES

Excited to welcome all our lions back to the library!

"There's a line of light under the door, and I just kind of walk toward that slowly, slowly, always hoping." How #Newbery winner Kate DiCamillo writes. https://t.co/vspV90FlRH

How research on the brain can help librarians develop spaces that meet young people where they are. https://t.co/A395GnCyNG

We Need Diverse Books announced the winners of the 2022 Walter Dean Myers Awards for outstanding children's literature. https://t.co/9Xa8GCp78m

Some children’s books are about people. Some are about animals. And some books are about...books! https://t.co/Cg1dNHs4r0

Look at this beauty. Alvin Epps is an extraordinary artist who grew up in NOLA & experienced the storm. I'm so lucky that he is bringing my characters & story to life for this latest @graphix masterpiece. And as always, amazing @AskMaridee created the beautiful adaptation.

I love everything about this song. The lyrics, imagery, and message are incredible. I love the new path Disney is forging with writing complex characters that have so many layers. Encanto and this song are a masterpiece!

"I scream with the skies Of red and blue streamers. I dream with the cries Of tried-and-true dreamers." —CHANGE SINGS by @TheAmandaGorman , illustrated by @LorenLong . #MartinLutherKingJrDay? 📚 https://t.co/SujcQBFoPb

Kate DiCamillo: “The World Is Full of Wonders” | The #Newbery at 100 https://t.co/Lp1Iy6LoCa

Top Digital Comics of 2021 in the NYC Schools | Good Comics for Kids https://t.co/OjOGvXj96h

Do you know what a neutrino is? @EveVavagiakis and Ilze Lemesis give you an up-close-and-personal introduction to some of the smallest bits of matter in their new picture book! I'M A NEUTRINO: TINY PARTICLES IN A BIG UNIVERSE, coming March 2022. https://t.co/KTOa8ZgvSM

A friend gifted me this engraved compass and it took me several moments to remember I wrote this line in my book😂

★ In picture book HOW TO SAY HELLO TO A WORM, @KariPercival “conveys the joy children can feel in working together, being outdoors, and eating food they’ve grown themselves”:

Learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. Happy #BookBirthday to @Sherri_L_Smith's WHAT WAS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE?!

The debut picture book from iconic voting rights advocate and #1 New York Times bestselling author @staceyabrams is an inspiring tale of determination, based on her own childhood. Out today! https://t.co/eOTpB6d4jj