Posts Tagged ‘Arkansas’

Lawn Boy and the Attack of the Book Summary

9, Mar 2009

We have been reading the Gary Paulsen book, Lawn Boy. It has been part of a collaborative reading and writing project with our buddy class in Greenbrier, Arkansas. Both classes have been reading the book at the same time, much as we did in December when we read Pam Munoz Ryan’s book, Becoming Naomi Leon. [...]

Loblolly Pines vs. Human Maps

19, Feb 2009

Today was a great day! We started with a wonderful reading session using pair reading and theater. I was very pleased with the creativity shown by the students as they demonstrated their understanding of the text by acting out key sections. After that we read some more in the book we are sharing with our [...]

Carpe Loblolly!

18, Feb 2009

We are very blessed to have several classes with whom we are able to collaborate. We’ve been writing penpal letters to a class at Wooster Elementary School in Greenbrier, Arkansas. I met the teacher, Kelli Smith, at the George Washington Teachers’ Institute at Mount Vernon last summer. Wooster Elementary opened just this school year and [...]

It’s Almost Time… :)

18, Aug 2008

September 2 is getting closer all the time. As much as I lament the end of summer, I’m totally excited about the great things we’ll be doing this year. One of the big areas of focus for our class will be collaboration. We will become pen pals with a class from the state of Arkansas. [...]


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