Hello All! I am excited to join Sharing the Shelves. Over the past year, I have found so many amazing blogs for classroom teachers. I just discovered Sharing the Shelves last night and I was so excited to see that this blog is about school libraries! Yes!! I have been a teacher for 10 years. Four as a classroom teacher and six as a librarian. I was in a district for 8 years when I accepted a new job in a different district. Low and behold I was cut. As a result I subbed in three different districts this past year. Still looking for that new job! Since I don't have the opportunity to set up my own library this fall, I would like to share some of my ideas from the last several years. I hope some of my ideas will inspire you! As I'm sure many of you are getting ready for the first day, here is a picture of a fall bulletin board that I had outside my library. I was the librarian in an early childhood building for four years. I can't take all the credit. Several years ago I had a very creative volunteer. I would give her the ideas and she would run with the ideas! If you look closely, we printed off colored pictures of books to display on the leaves-books about fall, apples, trees, etc. Great themes for September in kindergarten and first grade.