Ashley Bryan

So it turns out Ashley Bryan is the uncle of two of my students. He's doing a presentation at the public library, and I'm trying to get their mother to get him to do an author visit. Has anyone done an author visit yet? How much do they usually cost? I feel like he should do it for free because of his nephews, but he's pretty major so I'm not counting on it.

Read Across America Day

After finally recovering (thanks to February Break) from complete burnout, I have returned to find Read Across America day is next week, and I've got nothing planned. I whipped together packets from online resources to give the teachers some ideas and conned my principal into buying the staff Cat-in-the-Hat-Hats. Otherwise, I've got nothing and no energy to pull together another complicated school wide event (our last RIF distribution and our reading competetition were a few weeks ago). What are the rest of you doing? Do you have any "easy-to-implement" ideas that don't cost much/anything?