Today’s book recommendation has a multiplicity of diversity in it – the book is bilingual and has a non-gender specific protagonist. Title: Call Me Tree – Llámame árbol Written and illustrated by: Maya Christina Gonzalez Published by: Children’s Book Press, an imprint of Lee … Continue reading
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By: JOANNA MARPLE,
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By: Heidi Mordhorst,
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By: JOANNA MARPLE,
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So I’m back online! And I’ve so much to tell you about…
So yes, I was offline because I was away visiting family in the Netherlands. This is where we were for most of the time:
This is the haul of books I brought back:
My favourite book of all those I brought back is Overzee (literally “Oversea”) by Annemarie van Haeringen, Tonke Dragt, and Sjoerd Kuyper. It’s a collection of three very short, modern myths, each linked by the sea. The first is about a pelican who rescues a boy lost in a storm, the second is about Noah’s ark, unicorns and narwhals, and the third is about the source of the sea – where indeed does it begin? Each story is magical and word perfect. You won’t be able to finish this book without your heart contracting a little at its verbal and visual beauty. I do hope that one day it will be translated into English. The stories are timeless.
On holiday M fell deeply in love with the Belgian comic series Suske and Wiske (variously translated in to English as Bob and Bobette, Wanda and Willy and, most recently Spike and Suzy). This strip was created by Willy Vandersteen and first published in 1945 (there are now over 300 books!). It features two children who get up to all sorts of adventures, some fantasy, some historical, some science fiction, and has a look not dissimilar to the most famous comic from Belgium – Tintin.
Whilst away I read a brilliant Dutch children’s book Crusade in Jea
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By: Heidi Mordhorst,
on 4/23/2010
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First I must express right up top my gratitude to Kate Coombs at BookAunt, to Tricia Stohr-Hunt at The Miss Rumphius Effect and to Gregory K. at Gotta Book for their generous and careful attention to my work during this month of poetry festivities. Apart from anything else, I just love the feeling of being part of this community! Thanks to all who make it be.
My classroom is a little community in itself: surrounded by books (since it used to be the Reading Specialist's headquarters), I am one of four teachers who use it daily. I arrive as another, exemplary "Reading Initiative" teacher is finishing with her second-graders, and as I'm wrapping up my first-grade teaching session at 12:30, two ESOL teachers are preparing to conduct their small groups (often simultaneously!). We do pretty well at sharing our slice of real estate, and all this eavesdropping on other teachers is very educational. It's had other influences, too, and tomorrow morning I'll take the ESOL Praxis exam to become certified to teach ESOL as well as general education.
Meanwhile, as our public charter school Founding Group prepares for a Q&A session with the school district's review panel, I come to the section in our application on provision for students who are speakers of English as an additional language. Here's the poem by Gregory Djanikian that opens this section:
How I Learned English
It was in an empty lot
Ringed by elms and fir and honeysuckle.
Bill Corson was pitching in his buckskin jacket,
Chuck Keller, fat even as a boy, was on first,
His t-shirt riding up over his gut,
Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it up
In the field, a blue sky above them
Tipped with cirrus.
And there I was,
Just off the plane and plopped in the middle
Of Williamsport, Pa. and a neighborhood game,
Unnatural and without any moves,
My notions of baseball and America
Growing fuzzier each time I whiffed.
So it was not impossible
Ringed by elms and fir and honeysuckle.
Bill Corson was pitching in his buckskin jacket,
Chuck Keller, fat even as a boy, was on first,
His t-shirt riding up over his gut,
Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it up
In the field, a blue sky above them
Tipped with cirrus.
And there I was,
Just off the plane and plopped in the middle
Of Williamsport, Pa. and a neighborhood game,
Unnatural and without any moves,
My notions of baseball and America
Growing fuzzier each time I whiffed.
So it was not impossible
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By: Heidi Mordhorst,
on 3/26/2010
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"Explain how the curriculum is aligned with Maryland Content Standards and the voluntary state curriculum."
Hermanadad / Brotherhood
Soy hombre: duro poco
y es enorme la noche.
Pero miro hacia arriba:
las estrellas escriben.
Sin entender comprendo:
tambien soy escritura
y en este mismo instante
alguien me deletrea.
~Octavio Paz
I am a man; little do I last
and the night is enormous.
But I look up:
the stars write.
Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone spells me out.
~Octavio Paz / translated by Eliot Weinberger
"Most of what we learn--about ourselves, about the physical world and about our place in it--we learn through our relationships with or in the company of other people. At GGPCS social studies holds a special place in the curriculum, because its focus on people and their relationships with each other and the environment mirrors children's learning through their interaction with people in the environment...."
Today's Poetry Friday Roundup is at The Drift Record with Julie Larios.
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and welcome back! Feeling rather sad about my inability to read Dutch but will definitely seek out the Toby books. Have you read your ‘Hunger Games’ purchase yet? I’m just speeding through them and feeling full of ambivalence (whilst being unable to stop turning the pages). Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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I spy a Barbapapa
I enjoyed reading the Toby books, nearly picked them up at a charity shop today, but decided I’d wait a few years till I can actually read them to son, may have enough space on our book shelves by then. Am sure your girls will have great fun discovering the little folk in the trees
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Hi Polly, no, Hunger games should be next on my list (I just finished a book last night, but it too had lots of violence in it, so am wondering whether to allow myself something a little sweeter in between!) I’ll keep you posted…
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Hi Damyanti,Yes, we didn’t come home barbapapa-less…. Reading between the lines it seems like the Toby books didn’t impress you as much as they did me…(?) – if I saw copies in a 2nd hand book shop I’d snap them up to give to friends. If I’m right, do let me know more about what you though of the Toby books.
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