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Bringing Books Alive! Clara Caterpillar and the 2nd Grade at Udhailiyah School
The second grade class is studying insects right now as a part of their classroom curriculum. In an effort to support what is going on in the class I read Clara Caterpillar, by Pamela Duncan Edwards. It's a nice story for kids with colorful illustrations and a good message. After the story was finished we talked about the stages of a butterfly. Then the s… Continue
Posted by Kirk K. Peterson on November 22, 2009 at 2:40pm
Three Cups of Tea - Project run by Kirk, Udhailiyah Library
by Kirk K. Peterson, Udhailiyah School Librarian, Saudi Arabia
Udhailiyah Library students engaged in a service project last spring called “Helpful Halalas.” The name of our project was suggested by Kemi one of our 2nd grade student from Nigeria.
Inspired by Greg Mortenson’s book Three Cups of Tea a beautiful PowerPoint lesson was created to share this story with students from kindergarten through 9th grade during library lessons. The book talk was a huge success filling the… Continue
Posted by Marina Brodsky on September 27, 2009 at 6:52pm
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This is a list of books on countries of Near East South Asia region recommended by NESA librarians.
Cyprus:
The Island Everyone Wanted by Marina Christofidies.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Marjane Satrapi. Adult/High School-Marji tells of her life in Iran from the age of 10, when the Islamic revolution of 1979 reintroduced a religious state, through the age of 14 when the Iran-Iraq war forced her parents to send her to Europe for
… ContinueCreated by Marina Brodsky Jul 25, 2009 at 4:12pm. Last updated by Marina Brodsky Sep 28.
Tips for creating VoiceThread
If you choose VoiceThread for displaying students' works, you may like to know how to organize VoiceThread discussions:
Each school will start four or five VoiceThreads. The number of VoiceThreads will depend on the number of grade levels participating in the project (Lower and Upper Elementary, Middle, High, ELL , etc).
In the middle of each VoiceThread you can place a cover of a book that students will have read, or a picture of the class, an illustration or movie that st… Continue
Created by Marina Brodsky Aug 30, 2009 at 7:26pm. Last updated by Marina Brodsky Aug 30.
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