Sherry Futrell

It's time for summer reading! 🌞 📚 Looking for a way to spark your child's love for reading? Check out Unite for Literacy! They offer a great collection of free digital books for kids from birth through elementary. 📖🌟 Dive into a world of stories at uniteforliteracy.com.

🥳 Congratulations to the following teams for winning Best Team Name in our Elementary BOB Prelims today - 3rd/4th English - McKenzie Elem. - The Evidence Agents 3rd/4th Bilingual - Rutherford Elem. - The Two Survivors 5th Grade - Seabourn Elem. - The Cheer Readers

If I hadn’t been allowed to discover that books could be FUNNY, I never would’ve stuck around to discover all the OTHER things they can be. Letting kids read what THEY want is the best first step toward helping them fall in love with reading.

EDUCATORS and LIBRARIANS! These picture books need a new home. Want them? To enter to win them: follow me and like/retweet this tweet. Bonus entry: tag a pal who you think might want these books, too!

@amyomilstead I tell my students I am all the time!

Happy Holidays! ⛄ 📚 We hope you enjoy some great reads on your holiday break! 👀 Check out the digital library in the portal to find some great new ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines that were recently added. 💻 Don't forget to log your pages in the ReadSquared App.

@bbalston You are so generous!! You amaze and inspire me!!

FREE BOOK WEEKEND! just retweet, reply, and follow and I’ll randomly select 5 winners to receive a signed special edition of AMARI AND THE NIGHT BROTHERS, an Amari art card, and an additional book of your choice! Happy Holidays!

Thank you Mesquite Firemen for reading at Rutherford today!! Huge shout out to Fire Captain Block for setting this up and to Lieutenant Heise, Driver/Engineer Lay, and Firefighter D. Turner for reading to our PreK students!!

We are excited to announce our staff and students logged over 1.6 million pages of reading this summer! 👏 #readsquared #MesquiteReads #ReadPlayTalk @mesquiteisdtx

Students in music class at Floyd Elementary got a surprise & inspiring lesson from IT Technician Michael Arnold. #DifferenceMaker 🥁 #MadeToExcel

To whoever is this backpack’s owner, I’m sorry I was too shy to say hi in real life, but you MADE my day!!! 😍🤩📚 #FrontDeskSeries #TopStory

Jealousy?? No, but get out of there duckling!

Have you heard?? The @ALALibrary honored @DollyParton with a lifetime membership for her commitment to fostering a love of books & reading! They also created this amazing Celebrity READ® Poster😍 Learn more about this honor through ALA's press release: bit.ly/ALA-DollyParton

Can everyone see why I’m in love with him?!

Round 2 of Hackathon at Rutherford for the 3-5. These students are beyond amazing with their creativity and critical thinking! #Ruthes @mesquiteisdtx @MISDiTech #MadeToExcel

Hackathon fun this past week! #ruthes

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!! Love the sweet wishes from Mr. Mendiola and Mrs. Montes’ classes. Thank you for the gift of some of my favorites!! Thanks also to Lori Beth and Adrienne for lunch not sure who ended up paying!!! Thanks to all for making my day special!!

All smiles for the Battle Off for PK-2 Hackathon #ruthes

Cool things happening in 5th grade reading!! #ruthes @msalexfloyd

Received this from some sweet PreK friends yesterday!! Made my week better!!!