What About Hosting a Poetry Night?

http://eyeoneducation.com/Blog/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2797/Poetry-Family-Night-Amazing-Acrostic-Poems#.UXxcscqReil

Book Spine Poetry!

http://readlearnandbehappy.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-spine-poetry-national-poetry-month.html?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer:%2Bpoetry4kids%2Bon%2Btwitter&buffer_share=bb7ed

Trust. Collaborate. Make a Difference......

http://www.thindifference.com/2013/04/24/in-collaboration-we-trust/

We can follow Jon Mertz 

on Face Book, Twitter or

via a bimonthly newsletter.

Learning, Comfort Zones, Engagement

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/27/alistair-smith-do-lectures/

Watch this video!

 

"Getting stuck is not a problem. Staying stuck
is. Good learners practice getting unstuck, and
here’s how: Turn that around — praise for
progress, don’t praise for perfection.”

 "At times of change, the learners are the ones who
will inherit the world, while the knowers will be beautifully
prepared for a world which no longer exists.”

10 Things Extraordinary People Say Everyday

http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/10-things-extraordinary-people-say-every-day.html?goback=%252Egmr_67607%252Eamf_67607_80337765%252Egmr
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Take a Trip With a Favorite Book

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/childrens-book-travel-infographic_n_3063683.html

Readers are leaders & travelers too.
Inspire a child today. 
Don't miss the 50 Titles in
the book list of the article!

3dinosaurs.com

http://3dinosaurs.com/

All things learning with
ideas from Cassie Osborne.

 Math,

reading,

fun & inviting,

FREE printables.

Amazing, amazing, amazing!

The Blog Roll at Unit #20

http://www.cusd20.com/parkside/

Learning news-you-can-use

all in one place
on our school website!

Thanks in advance for telling a friend.

Discover whatwedoallday.com

http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2013/04/how-to-help-birds-build-nests.html

Read       Learn       Play      Live

E is For Explore

http://eisforexplore.blogspot.com/2012/05/word-wheel.html?spref=tw

Thanks for this site recommendation
from a parent who follows our blog!

"Think'-ing.....So Important

Election Day is Tomorrow

Thanks in advance
Lawrence County residents

for remembering to go out
and vote tomorrow,

Tuesday April  9th!

TOOLBOX: Rhyme-A-Week

http://curry.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm#This_Week

ABOUT A-Rhyme-A-Week 
The Rhyme-a-Week phonological
awareness program features 30 different nursery rhymes.
 
The phonograms or "rimes" emphasized in the program were
first identified by Richard Wylie & Donald Durrell in 1970. 

Examining a list of 1, 437 words commonly spoken
by children in primary grades (Murphy, 1957), Wylie & Durrell
identified 37 rimes that accounted for nearly 500 words of Murphy's list.
 
In determining the order of rhymes and rimes to present weekly, 
they follow Fry's (1998) suggested consideration of frequency.

http://curry.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm#Thirty_Featured_Rhymes

Happy Saturday!

Poetry Theater Time, YEAH!

http://gigglepoetry.com/poetrytheater.aspx

Giggle Poetry has us covered
if we're looking for interesting, fun
  poems to share with kids 
and want to act some out too.......  
 

You and your friends can perform poetry plays with these popular and funny poems. Lucky Trade Turn Off the TV! Ish! I Went to the Doctor Samantha Cinderella Scott I Call First! Rules for the Bus My Thumbies How to Torture Your Teacher My New Pet How to Torture Your Students My Doggy Ate My Homework How to Delay Your Bedtime My Dog Has Got No Manners Get Out of Bed! Mithing Tooth Bad Baxter Barton Empty Headed Mirror, Mirror, o'er the Sink Bad-Hair Day My Violin New My Noisy Brother New The Teachers’ Show New Don't Pinch! New Stop Sniffling! New When I Was a Baby New Out of Control New A Lesson Learned New When the Bubble Burst New Don't Suck Your Thumb New The Kindergarden Concert New Peewee Soccer New The Bus New We're Going Skiing New

"Teach Your Monster to Read" Game

Teach Your Monster to Read

http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

This game's designed to help kids
improve the speed and accuracy with
which they recognize letters & sounds. 

Free,

Colorful,

Safe 

TOOLBOX: Common Core Lesson

http://storycorps.org/initiatives/military-voices-initiative/

Army Officer Curtis Price interviews his 10-year-old daughter
Emily Price, at Storycorps' MobileBooth in Fort Bragg, NC.

Looking for authentic text, oral stories, or literature

that's both interesting and appropriate for Common Core lessons?

StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative has just what you need.

The Military Voices Initiative amplifies the tales of people 

serving in the military through accounts from family
members or the men and women themselves. 
If you take advantage of them with your pupils, we–as a nation–are listening.

 Check out stories on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/StoryCorps
as well as on Twitter @StoryCorps

Welcome April....See You Soon @ School!

We hope everyone had a great break;

see you back at school tomorrow, April 2nd!

She's Thinking BIG!

http://pinterest.com/pin/191332684141675215/

Neveah Mosher has
quite a reading goal.
How about you & your kids?