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Blog: Sharon Ledwith: I came. I saw. I wrote. (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This month, we are celebrating teacher and blogger, Sylvia Vardell. Sylvia blogs at Poetry for Children, which is one of the most amazing poetry resources for classroom teachers you can imagine! Sylvia works tirelessly to promote poetry for children at every professional conference she attends, through the journal articles and professional books she writes, and, of course, through the Poetry Friday Anthologies she edits with Janet Wong.
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This month, we are celebrating teacher and poet, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater! Her blog, The Poem Farm, is an amazing poetry and writing instruction resource for teachers. On the "Find a Poem" page, Amy has all the poems on her blog indexed by topic and technique. There is also a link to her amazing A-Z Poem Dictionary Hike, her 2012 National Poetry Month poem-a-day project.
Amy shines a spotlight on teachers and students and the poetry work they are doing in the classroom. On her "Poetry Peek" page, you can visit the classrooms she has featured.
If you and/or your students keep writer's notebooks, you will want to check out Amy's other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks. In the introduction, Amy writes,
"Hello, nosy friends! This blog is written by many different notebook-keepers, highlighting pages from a variety of notebooks: paper, digital, napkin, any kind! Read here, and learn how students, authors, artists, teachers, and people of all types use notebooks to strengthen their thinking. After reading, you might wish to try something new in your own writing, drawing, thinking..."Amy is the co-author of one of Lucy Calkins' Units of Study writing guides, and is in the midst of a beautiful swan dive into the crystal blue water of children's book authoring, with one published (Forest Has a Song) and FIVE more forthcoming.
If you read Amy's blog or follow her on FaceBook, you know that besides being a poet, writer, and teacher, she is mother of three, wife of a science teacher, and very much the farm girl of her blog's Poem FARM name. And you know that one of her (and her family's) passions is rescuing and placing orphaned cats and kittens. Although it veers a bit from our typical donation to a literacy or child-based organization, it just feels right to donate this month, in Amy's honor, to Colony Cats, a local organization that rescues cats as well as practicing TNR (trap, neuter, release) to support the feral cat colonies in the Columbus area. The cat who generously lets AJ and me share his house is a former Colony Cats rescue cat. He gave a twitch of his tail as the sign of his approval of this donation.
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This month, we are celebrating the amazing author and educator, Kate Messner. We have learned from Kate Messner in so many ways. Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers was important for both of us as writers and teachers of writing. Her children's books resonate with readers and have an important place in our classroom libraries. And as a former teacher she shares generously --she is an advocate of classroom visits by authors, offering free Skype visits to classes for many of her books, and maintaining an extensive list of children's, YA, and adult authors who will also Skype for free.
To honor Kate, we we are making a donation to one of our favorite local organizations, The Brian Muha Foundation. This is an organization that supports children in our local area. We love the story of the foundation and believe strongly in their mission. You can learn more about the foundation and the Run the Race Club on their website.
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Blog: Sharon Ledwith: I came. I saw. I wrote. (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Our year-long blog birthday celebration continues as we honor blogger Pam Coughlan, aka Mother Reader, with a donation to First Book.
"I'm hoping with lots of participants over the weekend, that we can saturate the blogosphere with dozens - nay, HUNDREDS - of titles that show the beautiful range of the human experience. That's our challenge."
"Heads fill with thoughts,Thank you Pam! Thank you, MotherReader, for all you have done for books and literacy and the Kidlitosphere!
Homes fill with works,
Schools fill with learning,
Communities fill with leaders."
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Thank you Jen for for sharing generously and for all you do for readers and reading!
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This week, we are celebrating a week of leisure--not of doing nothing, but of having a little bit of extra time over spring break to browse online, to read a few more posts than usual and to find some gems! Here are the things we found online this week that are worth celebrating and sharing.
My good friends Drew and Candis Jones created a new product for their Etsy store which I LOVE LOVE. They shared the new produce on Facebook and I was so glad I saw it right away! I own a few too many of their necklaces but I can't imagine I could ever own too many of these bracelets! Check them out!
Then, I found this amazing Ted Talk thanks to @kylepace on Twitter. Drew Dudley's "Leading with Lollipops". Such a powerful message. I happen upon Ted Talks I love once in a while but knew that Mary Lee had a goal of fitting more Ted Talks into her life. So I passed it along. She loved it too.
Mary Lee here: I had high hopes for getting caught up on reading through the blog posts in my overflowing Feedly. Alas, that, and thoroughly cleaning the house one room at a time just didn't get done. I did manage to get in a TED talk with illustrated notes. Thanks for the link to Kyle's post about "Leading With Lollipops," Franki!
And I loved this piece by Tammy at Assessment in Perspective, "Practicing Until It's In Your Bones". An important message for teachers.
At Michigan Reading Association, Colby Sharp hinted that there'd be a big SharpSchu announcement coming up soon so I was thrilled to finally hear details about their new challenge! Looking forward to hearing their thought on the Geisel winners!
My daughter and I went to see Divergent this weekend. We both loved the movie. I became fascinated by the idea that Shailene Woodley is playing the part of Tris and of Hazel in the upcoming Fault in Our Stars movie. What am amazing actress to be able to play both of these roles well. I loved her interview that I found somehow.
One thing I like about social media is the way that it gets word out about important issues. I try to focus on positive stories but there were a few negative stories that pulled me in this week. One story that has stayed with me was the story about the runner wearing a tutu who was made fun of by Self Magazine. I don't often repost negative stories on FB or Twitter but I felt like sharing this story was important. It is a celebration for me because once it was shared in social media, it was clear that most everyone in the world knows this is wrong. That treating people like this is not okay. Lots of people sharing the story as a way to take a stand against people being treated like this. A very small thing to do but small things are important.
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We love that even though our blog birthday was on January 1, we are celebrating it all year! On our 8th Birthday, we decided to celebrate 2014 by celebrating others who inspire us every day. Each month, on the 1st (or so) of the month, we will celebrate a fellow blogger whose work has inspired us recently. We feel so lucky to be part of the blog world that we want to celebrate all that everyone gives us each day.
This month, we are celebrating the team at the Nerdy Book Club: Donalyn Miller, Colby Sharp and Cindy Minnich.
The Nerdy Book Club is huge -- when last I visited, I was greeted by the proclamation that "You and 2,781 others like Nerdy Book Club." There are nearly 70 Nerdy Book Club Bloggers in the blogroll
We are honoring the Nerdy Book Club by making a donation to LitWorld in their name. We love LitWorld and this month seemed the perfect month to donate to them as March 5 is World Read Aloud Day ! If you have no plans to celebrate World Read Aloud Day in your classroom, you might want to change your mind! World Read Aloud Day is "about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people." What an amazing cause. LitWorld has lots of other amazing projects too. And we believe in all of them.
Here is a little glimpse of the vision and work of LitWorld:
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Goodbye, February! Been nice to know you! We had some fun times...but mostly we had snow and cold. I know you can't help being who you are. It must be rough to be post-holiday and pre-Spring. You have to wait four long years to special in any way. But you know what? Even though it feels like a grueling effort to make it through your days, you actually help me to fine-tune my Signs-of-Spring Senses. Just the other day, for instance, when you gave us that glorious spring preview and we were able to have salmon on the grill for the first time since fall, I heard the robins singing in the dark.
In this mosaic, we begin with wing tracks in the deep snow that seemed to last forever. The rest of the first row: award winners in our classroom library, a message from the Universe that I have yet to decode, TED notes made with my...new pens... ROW 2: ...that bleed through but I don't care. Community band at Old Worthington Farmer's Market brings me joy every week (their tribute to Pete Seeger made me teary), another message from the Universe that couldn't be clearer (and it's just a tiny bit ironic that I took a PICTURE of it, eh?), the sky at Gene Barretta's airport vs. the sky in Columbus (he was the only author who didn't make it to #DubLit14). ROW 3: #DubLit14 -- student work, authors, celebrities. ROW 4: The last of the snow (or, based on the current forecast, should I say, the last of LAST MONTH'S snow) looks like a beached whale at our curb, auto tracks in a dusting of snow, (next 7) this is a visual rendition of That Silence I wrote about here (and I promise this is the last time I'll link to that review), LASTLY: a mosaic of the March Birthday Cake: "The Making." In the March Mosaic, you'll see March Birthday Cake: "The Icing and Eating."
A better view of the photos in this mosaic can be seen on Flickr.
Blog: Chocolate for Inspiration (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This weekend has been overwhelming. I've been blown away by the well-wishes on Facebook and Twitter, the emails and blog posts. It's moments like these that all the years of late-night writing, tears over rejections and fighting self-doubt become worth it.
I'm so excited to celebrate my book deal with you that I'm giving away three prize packs. I know some of you are readers, some are writers and some are travelers, so I've created a pack for each of you.
- Critique of your first 10 pages by me
- $25 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card- your choice!
- $10 Starbuck's gift card
- Journal and writing pens
- Query critique from my writing partner, Kate Fall, who has just opened her own editing business
Reader's Pack
- Copies of my writing partner's books: autographed copy of ACROSS THE UNIVERSE by Beth Revis, I'M BORED illustrated by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, and a preordered copy of PROPHECY by Ellen Oh
- A Samjokgo amulet (or some spell it as Samjogo)- this represents strength and was considered the most powerful symbol in Korea during the Koguryo Kingdom. This amulet has a big role in my book!
Traveler's Pack
- Traveler's journal and writing pens
- "Woman On the Go" traveler kit
- Kindle or Nook (your choice!) versions of these great YA books: TEN by Gretchen McNeil and DEFIANCE by C.J Redwine.
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Just part of something I’ve been working on…
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April is National Poetry Month! Join LitWorld, A Global Literacy Organization, in celebrating the power and spirit of words by helping to compose a Global Poem for Change:
The wonderful poet Naomi Shihab Nye got us started with a first line:
I send my words out into the air, listening for yours from everywhere.
What words do you send out into the air?
What words do you listen for?
Celebrate Poetry Month and create a Global Poem for Change with LitWorld!
What comes next?
Submit a line of your own at litworld.org/poem
and watch our Poem GROW at litworld.org/poemblog.We need Your Words to Change Worlds.
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and help our poem soar around the world…?Blog: One Question A Day (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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What is your most creative way of celebrating Presidents’ Day?
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Today marks the end of Jon Scieska's two year term as the Ambassador of Children's Literature. I would like to offer up a big thanks to him, not only for his work as ambassador, but for providing so many fun books for us to read to kids!
Some folks might wonder why here at Tweendom, I would be taking time out since most of Mr. Scieszka's work (Knucklehead aside) is for the younger set. Well, because books like The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, are laugh-out-loud funny, and help get boys (and girls) to look at reading as fun, and not just something to sit still for!
His MC-ing skills are unparalleled, and he has made the National Book Award press conference for youth and fun and sly experience for the teens and the adults in the room.
So here's to you, Jon Scieszka!
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Amanda tips us off in her Twitter feed about Camilla Engman’s latest book from Uppercase Gallery:
THE SUITCASE SERIES
This series presents in glorious detail the lives of artists and designers from around the world. Small and intimate, each book contains a special treasure: in this edition we have included a glassine envelope of postcards with which you can create a Camilla-inspired collage. You’ll also find a booklet
of the adventures of Morran, the little Swedish dog with a big imagination. Each book in The Suitcase Series is a precious souvenir of a creative journey shared between the artist and you, the reader.
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So 3 years ago on June 19th I started Welcome to my Tweendom as a companion to the now defunct Booktopia in order to highlight titles for the tweeners in your lives. I forgot my own blogiversary, but I am not being too hard on myself as June 19th was the last day of Kindergarten for my little one.
I have just packed an entire suitcase of books to read this summer, and will hopefully be adding to this blog as frequently as life without a school schedule will allow!
(Photo from pinkcakebox.com)
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A 24hr. head start! Élena Nazarro writes: “I’m starting up “Every Day In May” again, where I (and others who join in) are committing to paint/sew/write/create for 31 straight days. We’d love to have you join, especially if you think you need a kickstart. Goodness knows I do!”
More info at her blog, French Toast Girl, and a Flickr group too!
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Back in January we mentioned Nina Paley’s astonishing Sita Sings the Blues, an animated and musical tragicomedy with Indian roots and a 20’s jazz soundtrack.
It’s more than worth a mention that since last month, the released film has been available under the terms of a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. In short, as Paley writes, “You don’t need my permission to copy, share, publish, archive, show, sell, broadcast, or remix Sita Sings the Blues.”
Or to download and watch it. So grab a 1080p full cut, and remix Sita into something else awesome!
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Penelope’s baby has arrived, and her husband Colin introduces us to little Veda over at Penelope’s blog. Congratulations, Penelope and Colin!!
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I would go to London. I have always wanted to go there and really its the only place I have extreme wanderlust for!
I would go to Japan. My choice is seriously biased since I'm an anime fan. :)
I would go to Australia because it's the native continent of kangaroos. But Britain and Italy are also good choices...
India, and I want to go for a chunk of time. I don't know if you can really get it if you don't stay for a while.
India! It is such a magical place!
First of all WOOHOOOOOOOOO! I missed the announcement and I'll go back in a sec and get caught up. I'm SO THRILLED for you!!! :)
I'd go on an African photo safari ... or Italy ... or Hong Kong ... or back to Scotland ... or...
Right now I'd choose Costa Rica. For research ;0)
Australia!! =D
I would go back to Iceland, this time in the summer. :-)
Wow, I go away for Thanksgiving weekend and come back to this amazing news!!! Congrats, Christina. :D
Congratulations!
And I would go to the town where my grandparents lived in England before they moved to the US. I've always wanted to see it.
These are such great places! Now I want to go jump on an airplane.
what an awesome giveaway! And congrats!
Wow - awesome giveaway!
If I could get on a plane right now I'd go to Santa Barbara to see old friends and new ones and have an iced vanilla latte on the beach. ;)
Jeju Island in Korea!
What a generous giveaway, Christina. Thank you. Right now, I'd love to return to India ... but other than that, I'm quite content in our new environs.
What a cool way to celebrate your book deal (YAY!). I've been lucky enough to travel much of the U.S. and Europe, so I need to head west...today I'm thinking New Zealand. :)
So happy for you!
I'd go to Scotland. :)
I've always wanted to go to Australia (and New Zealand, but that's 2:)
Congrats on your book deal!
Congrats on your book deal. You give us all hope!
And I'd go to England--for research and FUN!!
I'm SO EXCITED for you. I know you must still be doing the happy dance.
I commented before I read the question! I'd go to Scotland.
I'm late reading your news. Huge congratulations! Now I'll be seeing you at a future first books panel. :)
I love all of the places you guys have mentioned!
Medeia- yes! That will be soooo awesome. I can't wait!
I would go to England and Scotland to stay in old haunted castles and see Stonehenge.
Hey, congratulations! And what a cool giveaway idea. I always say there are only a handful of countries I wouldn't visit if someone offered me a ticket--it doesn't seem exactly the time to go to Syria or Sudan, maybe, but I'd love to see everywhere else! Lately I'm really dying to go to Iceland--bike all day, hotsprings all afternoon, vodka all night. Sounds good, no?
Egypt or Greece!
Well. I've been very lucky enough to have traveled every year for pretty much all my life. But there are still places I haven't been to! I think Scotland and Australia would be awesome to visit. :)
Thanks for the giveaway!
Congratulations on your deal for GILDED! So excited to read it!
I would go to Germany where I have family I haven't seen in 2 decades. :-)
Such a great giveaway idea with the three packs.