About Andromeda
I am a library media specialist in an independent elementary school. I'm particularly interested in diversity in children's books. I'm blogging mainly about books, technology, teaching, writing, haiku, and poetry.
Andromeda's Blog: a wrung sponge - Recent Posts
| 11/13/2009 | Flu and Asthma poetry (1 Comments )
Trisha, at Miss Rumphius Effect, has given us the charge in this week's Monday Poetry Stretch: try a new form called "rictameter, an unrhymed, 9-line poem with a syllable count of 2/4/6/8/10/8/6/4/2 in which the first and last lines are the... Read the rest of this post |
| 11/10/2009 | insomniac haiku (5 Comments )
chrysanthemum jeweled with morning dew next to the gas pumps -Andromeda Jazmon |
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| Books Recently Added to Andromeda's Bookshelf | Ages | Date Added | |
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| Books 1 - 4 of 16 from Andromeda's bookshelf, View all 16 books Click a book's title for more details about the book | |||
| 1. Kids' Book of Chess and Chess Set (Paperback, 1990) Author: Harvey Kidder |
Ages 9-12 | 10/23/2008 | |
| Andromeda said: Im using this book with kindergarten today. I like how the game is explained and the pieces identified. I think its just right for kids ages 5-7 who are learning the game. more tags: Inspired me, I read, I recommend | |||
| 2. Advanced Theology for Very Tiny Persons (Four Board Books in a Slipcase)... Author: Doris Sanford |
Baby to Pre-K | 6/28/2008 | |
| Andromeda said: All three of my sons have loved these books. I think they are delightful. Multicultural, loving images of God and sound theology. I wish they were still in print. tags: kidlit, "board books", Christian, babies, toddlers, Inspired me, I recommend | |||
| 3. Chasing Vermeer (Mass Market Paperback, 2005) Author: Blue Balliett Illustrator: Brett Helquist |
Ages 9-12 | 2/26/2008 | |
| Andromeda tagged as: Read | |||
| 4. Teaching Children to Care: Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic... Author: Ruth Charney |
N/A | 8/23/2007 | |
| Andromeda tagged as: readagainandagain | |||
Profile Comments
Comment by LaTonya Baldwin on 10/31/2007 2:19:46 PM:
“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
~Rita Dove
“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
~Rita Dove
Comment by Nancy Bea Miller on 7/7/2007 4:52:19 PM:
Welcome to JacketFlap Cloudscome. Seems like a nice place (I'm pretty new, too!) Nice to see you here as well as over at One Deep Breath.
Welcome to JacketFlap Cloudscome. Seems like a nice place (I'm pretty new, too!) Nice to see you here as well as over at One Deep Breath.
Comment by Alethea Eason on 6/15/2007 1:43:20 AM:
Hi,
New to jacketflap as of minutes ago. I have created several poetry collections (on the copy machine :) for my students. I love teaching poetry. I wish I could do it more often. I'll check back when I can! I'm learning my way around blogs and the web.
Hi,
New to jacketflap as of minutes ago. I have created several poetry collections (on the copy machine :) for my students. I love teaching poetry. I wish I could do it more often. I'll check back when I can! I'm learning my way around blogs and the web.
Comment by Todd-Michael St. Pierre on 6/5/2007 2:02:07 PM:
Enjoyed your Blog Clouds! Happy JacketFlapping!
Enjoyed your Blog Clouds! Happy JacketFlapping!
Comment by Kris Bordessa on 5/16/2007 4:50:11 PM:
I just discovered Jacket Flap yesterday (courtesy of The Edge of the Forest) and am having fun playing!
I just discovered Jacket Flap yesterday (courtesy of The Edge of the Forest) and am having fun playing!
“If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”
~Rita Dove