by Kim Jacobs | Aug 22, 2021 | Newest
Sports Primer: Take Me Out to the Ball Game! Baseball is often considered the “all-American” sport. Baseball has given us idioms: strike out (very unsuccessful), home run (very successful), ballpark number (an approximation), curve ball (something...
by Kim Jacobs | Aug 22, 2021 | Blog
Resource Spotlight: Your Local Library To say that I read a lot of books would be an understatement on par with saying that blue whales are large animals. I read with my students, especially the younger ones. I read to find books to suggest to students. I read for my...
by Kim Jacobs | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
Renaissance Festivals: Jousting About! Every summer, I see knights, noble lords and ladies, wizards, faeries, a walking plant twice as tall as I am, and even the queen. Do I travel through time? Kind of—it’s time for the Renaissance Festival again! Renaissance...
by Kim Jacobs | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog
What’s So Great About a Farmer’s Market? When it’s time to go grocery shopping, where are you most likely to go? Options for buying food are pretty varied in America. There are: national mega stores like Walmart and Target big-box stores like Costco...
by Kim Jacobs | Jul 27, 2021 | Blog
WHAT’S in the Dictionary? All languages change and grow over time. This is obvious when we look at English from several hundred years ago; if someone walked around talking like they walked out of a Shakespearian play all the time, it would likely get some odd...
