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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Spring Festival of Children's Literature
Packing today for a Saturday speaking gig at Frostburg State University. I hope to see you there.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Springtime Traditions -- Egg day
Ah,The dying of the eggs.
The painting paper towels with egg dye.
The hiding of the eggs.
The search for the eggs.
(I really hid them well this time. It took her over an hour to find them all.)
The making of deviled eggs.
The eating of eggs.
The creating pictures from the colored eggshells.
Spring traditions, don'tcha love them?
Saturday, April 23, 2011
National Library Week -- cakes
CakeWrecks usually has really weird cakes on display, but every Sunday they feature beautiful ones. Take a look at these wonderful Literary Cakes!
Yummy.
Enjoy
-wo
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
April is Poetry Month
And because April is Poetry Month, there are all sorts of delicious things happening all over the Blogosphere:
Susan Taylor Brown will post Lessons Learned (Mostly about Me) in a Poem-a-Day at SusanWrites.
April Halprin Wayland will be writing and posting an original poem a day during April at her website's blog -- 2011 Poem a Day Challenge!
Liz Garton Scanlon will give us her third year of a Haiku-a-Day every day in April at Liz In Ink.
Jone MacCulloch will post 30 Days--30 Students: A Poem a Day from students at her blog, Check It Out.
At Deo Writer -- Musings to Spark the Spirit you'll find another Poem A Day: A Personal Journey.
There also is a Poetry Postcard Project. If you want a student-written and decorated poem sent to your home, send an email request to macrush53 @yahoo. com.
(Naturally, for security reasons she put spaces into that email address.)
Gregory K. will present 30 poets/ 30 Days -- a whole month of never-before-seen poems by a slew of fabulous poets writing for kids at his Gottabook blog.
Jama Rattigan will present her 2nd Annual Poetry PotLuck (original poem and favorite recipe by guest bloggers) at jama rattigan's alphabet soup.
Irene Latham will host a month-long Poetry Party: poetry quotes, trivia, craft tips, publishing resources and free books! at Live Love Explore.
Andromeda Jazmon will be doing her fourth year in a row of haiga (original haiku + her photos) at A Wrung Sponge.
Janelle at Brimful Curiosities will host a National Poetry Month Kids Poetry Challenge in which kids are invited to create pictures for the poems she posts each Friday. Check it out.
Biblio File will be featuring a poem or review of a novel-in-verse every day in April.
Anastasia Suen has set up a blog and a Twitter account for students (of all ages) to write Haiku (about what they learned at school that day).
Tricia Stohr-Hunt will host a Poetry in the Classroom series, which will highlight a topic, theme, poet, or book and talk about uses in the classroom at the Miss Rumphius effect blog.
Stasia Kehoe will be including poetry links, a giveaway of signed arc of the debut YA verse novel, Audition, plus reviews every Thursday of verse novels at Writer on the Side.
The Poem Farm will introduce a different poem idea-strategy or poetic technique for children and teachers every day. Each idea-strategy/ Technique will be followed by links to a few poems from this past year. The blog will also feature poem sharing ideas through "Poetry Peeks" into classrooms.
Lee Wind will present sprinkled-throughout-the-month GLBTQ poetry posts at his blog.
National Poetry Month Poetry Friday schedule:
a.. April 1 http://poemfarm.blogspot.com/
a.. April 8 http://www.madiganreads.com/
a.. April 15 http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/
a.. April 22 http://bookaunt.blogspot.com/
a.. April 29 http://www.tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 18, 2011
Nonfiction Monday -- directions
I'm busy with a sick kid, but here's the link to Nonfiction Monday this week at the Cat and the Fiddle.
-wo
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Weekend in the Hospital
Spent the weekend in the hospital with the 11-year-old.
Her appendix burst Friday and they operated. Now she's home (in the living room where the TV and computer are, naturally) where she is trying to recover.
The hospital has cable and we don't, so she was watching as much cable as she could while there. (I think we overdosed on Nick and Disney channel.) Here she's stuck with watching DVDs, poor deprived kid.
-wo
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