Spending the week in Versailles, Kentucky making books with all of the young people at St.Leo's Elementary School. Every grade level is making a different book structure - and working with a different theme. Rose and I are organizational wizards - it is always easier with two. She doesn't have a classroom - so we prep, pack, get in, work with kids, clean-up, and get going to the next room.
Teachers of young children: truly the unsung heroes of our time. More pictures to follow.
3 comments:
hey les,
i love reading about all the work/learning you're doing with your year. Awesome. Thanks for the pictures of timmy on the court, too. Wish I could've been there.
anne
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Hi Leslie,
It's really exciting to read about the book making projects you are doing with children. I don't know if you know this, but this semester (and again in the summer) I am teaching a course for Marian College, "Teaching Language Arts and Children's Literature" for the alternative certification program. My students are adults who already have a first degree and are earning their elementary teaching certification.
Our text, Patterns of Practice by Gail Tompkins, discusses the making of books in a number of places. It is a way of celebrating the children's writing and having them share their products--the final stage of the writing process (publishing) and the one that most teachers neglect. I just love looking at the pictures of your work with children. I'm sure you are making a strong impact on them, and their pride in their books will be something they carry with them as they continue through school.
Thanks for keeping up posted on the progress of your blog. It's amazing and beautiful.
Donna Tanzer
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