Picture books by Thierry Robberecht
Sarah's little ghosts
Back into mummy's tummy
Stolen smile
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Old Japan by Andrew Haslam and Clare Doran
The symbols used were - the fan, sword and tea bowl.
Activity: The Zen 'gravel" garden is like a Japanese landscape in miniature. Water is incorporated into many Zen gardens to sugegt a waterfall, ocean or a fast-flowing river, or else it may simply provide a soothing sound as it drips into a stone basin.
Timeline of emperors, religion, culture and world war.
The following can be used as icons or for interaction and can be made with paper and pasted on a chart - flora and fauna: rice, seaweed, mulberry bush, tea, oranges, lemons, octopus, salmon and tuna.
What did the Japanese wear based on their social class.
Activity: Make a Kimono with paper. Make a family crest and paste it on the kimono.
Activity: Make a pair of Japanese shoes Geta.
Activity: Hair style and head dress
Living with Nature: a wooden house. The kitchen situated at ground level.
Activity: Make a paper screen.
Activity: Make a fan, paint it (can also be made with a paper plate)
Games: Battledore: Origianly, battledore was played with a soyabean instead of a shuttlecock. Beans were beleived to ward off evil and disease.
Games: At new Year children played with spinning tops made of bamboo and paper.
Activity: Make a samurai sword. make a sword, cover it with paper and decorate it.
Activity: Make a warrior kite. Make a kite and draw warrior faces
Activity: Make a carp streamer
The Doll Festival
The Moon Festival
Activity: Make a Kite, Make a Moon fan (decorate the fan with autum flowers and leaves)
Activity: Make a sushi
Activity: Use chop sticks
Activity: Make a musical instrument shamisen. The shamisen has three strings which are strummed. It is used to accompany puppet chanters in a type of theatre known as Bunraku.
Activity: Make a Noh Mask
Activity: Make a Kendo Mask
Activity: Make a Hanko or seals were used as signatures. Take a potato and cut the alphabet and print it on paper.
Activity: Paper hung on strings. Prayers written on strips of paper are often hung around Shinto shrines for good luck.
Chinese characters developed from simple drawings - tree, mountain, river, rice field, person, and mouth.
Activity: Paper making
Activity: Origami flapping bird
The red cloth is a sign that kami is being taken care of. Peopel make offerings of food and drink to the kami to keep them happy.
Activity: The Zen 'gravel" garden is like a Japanese landscape in miniature. Water is incorporated into many Zen gardens to sugegt a waterfall, ocean or a fast-flowing river, or else it may simply provide a soothing sound as it drips into a stone basin.
Timeline of emperors, religion, culture and world war.
The following can be used as icons or for interaction and can be made with paper and pasted on a chart - flora and fauna: rice, seaweed, mulberry bush, tea, oranges, lemons, octopus, salmon and tuna.
What did the Japanese wear based on their social class.
Activity: Make a Kimono with paper. Make a family crest and paste it on the kimono.
Activity: Make a pair of Japanese shoes Geta.
Activity: Hair style and head dress
Living with Nature: a wooden house. The kitchen situated at ground level.
Activity: Make a paper screen.
Activity: Make a fan, paint it (can also be made with a paper plate)
Games: Battledore: Origianly, battledore was played with a soyabean instead of a shuttlecock. Beans were beleived to ward off evil and disease.
Games: At new Year children played with spinning tops made of bamboo and paper.
Activity: Make a samurai sword. make a sword, cover it with paper and decorate it.
Activity: Make a warrior kite. Make a kite and draw warrior faces
Activity: Make a carp streamer
The Doll Festival
The Moon Festival
Activity: Make a Kite, Make a Moon fan (decorate the fan with autum flowers and leaves)
Activity: Make a sushi
Activity: Use chop sticks
Activity: Make a musical instrument shamisen. The shamisen has three strings which are strummed. It is used to accompany puppet chanters in a type of theatre known as Bunraku.
Activity: Make a Noh Mask
Activity: Make a Kendo Mask
Activity: Make a Hanko or seals were used as signatures. Take a potato and cut the alphabet and print it on paper.
Activity: Paper hung on strings. Prayers written on strips of paper are often hung around Shinto shrines for good luck.
Chinese characters developed from simple drawings - tree, mountain, river, rice field, person, and mouth.
Activity: Paper making
Activity: Origami flapping bird
The red cloth is a sign that kami is being taken care of. Peopel make offerings of food and drink to the kami to keep them happy.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Incredible Clay Book by Sherri Haab
How to make and bake zillions of permanent clay creations. There are 3 basic shapes: balls, logs and flat sheets.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Perfect Phrases for ESL by Natalie Gast
R: Respond
E: Eye contact
A: Act-ask questions
C: Contribute an idea
T: Turn around
SOAR: Stretch out and take risks
assume: don't make a ass of you and me
E: Eye contact
A: Act-ask questions
C: Contribute an idea
T: Turn around
SOAR: Stretch out and take risks
assume: don't make a ass of you and me
Monday, May 24, 2010
Poetry break by Caroline Feller Bauer
Character builders: responsibility and trustworthiness by Dr. Michele Borba
Bookends by Michele Borba
Bookends by Michele Borba
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
In the company of Crows and Ravens ny John Marzluff and Tony Angell.
I like the chapter about 'Social Customs and Culture of Crows'
A Poem a day by Helen H Moore
A poem a day by 180 Thematic poems and activities.
The Poetry break by Caroline Feller Bauer (has many activties and ideas to engage the public.)
The Poetry break by Caroline Feller Bauer (has many activties and ideas to engage the public.)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Stories on stage by Aaron Shepard
Stories on Stage: 22 Reader's theatre scripts adapted from children's literature for elementary and junior high school students.
Folktales on stage by Aaron Shepard. Scripts for reader's theatre.
Folktales on stage by Aaron Shepard. Scripts for reader's theatre.
Friday, March 12, 2010
The lady with the alligator purse (Pizza)
Nadine Bernard Westcott is also the author of the lady who swallowed a fly.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Fabric crafts and other fun with kids
Fabric crafts and other fun with kids by Susan Parker Beck and Charlou Lunsford.
(pendants, bookmarks, bags, weave a fabric...)
(pendants, bookmarks, bags, weave a fabric...)
Yoga
Twist by Janet Wong (yoga poems)
My daddy is a pretzel by Baron Baptiste (yoga for aprents and kids)
My daddy is a pretzel by Baron Baptiste (yoga for aprents and kids)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Coffee wisdom
The seven principles of Coffee Wisdom.
1. Reheating causes bitterness (Your past is the reason, not the excuse)
2. Start with fresh grounds (Learn from your mistakes, don't repeat them)
3. Use the correct grind (Put right whatever you can and accept what you can't)
4. Use high-quality beans and fresh, pure, cold water (Celebrate your uniqueness)
5. Get the proportions right (Challenge irrational thinking)
6. Boiling destroys the flavour (Check your stress levels)
7. Drink it while it's hot (Live in the present)
1. Reheating causes bitterness (Your past is the reason, not the excuse)
2. Start with fresh grounds (Learn from your mistakes, don't repeat them)
3. Use the correct grind (Put right whatever you can and accept what you can't)
4. Use high-quality beans and fresh, pure, cold water (Celebrate your uniqueness)
5. Get the proportions right (Challenge irrational thinking)
6. Boiling destroys the flavour (Check your stress levels)
7. Drink it while it's hot (Live in the present)
Chinese new year
Cultural traits: A feature or quality about something that makes it different from others.
The tray of togetherness (chuen-hop): To welcome visitors to their homes, many families put out a food tray. There are eight parts in the tray. Each part has a special food in it. Some people believe that if you eat lotus seeds, you will have sons. If you eat the melon, you will grow tall and have good health. If you eat the coconut, your family will stay together. If you eat the watermelon seeds, you will have plenty of whatever you need.
Chinese calendar, animals and their significance: The Chinese believe you share some traits with the animal that rules the year in which you were born. The rat is friendly and busy. The ox is loyal and dependable. The tiger is brave and quick to act. The rabbit is shy and quiet. The dragon is strong and wise. The snake is tricky and cautious. The horse is cheerful and free-spirited. The sheep is trustworthy and loving. The monkey is funny and mischievous. The rooster is proud and hardworking. The dog is loyal and faithful. The pig is smart and kind.
Peaches would bring long life, the way noodles would, if we slurped them up without biting. Tangerines meant this was a lucky house, a house full of joy and warmth, full of orange-rd fire. The Chinese word for 'fish' sounds like the Chinese word for 'plenty.'
Chinese New Year by Alice K Flanagan
McGraw-Hill's Chinese illustrated dictionary
This next new Year by Janet S Wong
The tray of togetherness (chuen-hop): To welcome visitors to their homes, many families put out a food tray. There are eight parts in the tray. Each part has a special food in it. Some people believe that if you eat lotus seeds, you will have sons. If you eat the melon, you will grow tall and have good health. If you eat the coconut, your family will stay together. If you eat the watermelon seeds, you will have plenty of whatever you need.
Chinese calendar, animals and their significance: The Chinese believe you share some traits with the animal that rules the year in which you were born. The rat is friendly and busy. The ox is loyal and dependable. The tiger is brave and quick to act. The rabbit is shy and quiet. The dragon is strong and wise. The snake is tricky and cautious. The horse is cheerful and free-spirited. The sheep is trustworthy and loving. The monkey is funny and mischievous. The rooster is proud and hardworking. The dog is loyal and faithful. The pig is smart and kind.
Peaches would bring long life, the way noodles would, if we slurped them up without biting. Tangerines meant this was a lucky house, a house full of joy and warmth, full of orange-rd fire. The Chinese word for 'fish' sounds like the Chinese word for 'plenty.'
Chinese New Year by Alice K Flanagan
McGraw-Hill's Chinese illustrated dictionary
This next new Year by Janet S Wong
Yoga
My daddy is a pretzel yoga for parents and kids by Baron Baptiste
Twist yoga poems by Janet Wong (beautiful illustrations by Julie Paschkis)
Twist yoga poems by Janet Wong (beautiful illustrations by Julie Paschkis)
Picture dictionaries
The Usborne picture dictionary in French.
Vox first french picture dictionary
My first french-english visual dictionary
Vox first french picture dictionary
My first french-english visual dictionary
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Book buddies by francine johnston
This book has reading lists by level of readers: level 1,2,3.
Publishers of Phonics books
Publishers of Phonics books
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Fran Mauskin
Ketchup, catch up! A monkey who is slow becomes fast and he helps others.
Moon dragon. Simlar to a mouse can ride on teh lions tale. A mouse is hidding under the dragon's tale.
Baby, come out: a hilarious book about pregnancy and the babay would not ocme out..then came along daddy and daddy gives kisses and hugs so the baby came out.
How mama brought the spring: Singing and cooking together book. We have the eggs and the milk and the cheese, and the flour and sugar -- all at the same time.
Moon dragon. Simlar to a mouse can ride on teh lions tale. A mouse is hidding under the dragon's tale.
Baby, come out: a hilarious book about pregnancy and the babay would not ocme out..then came along daddy and daddy gives kisses and hugs so the baby came out.
How mama brought the spring: Singing and cooking together book. We have the eggs and the milk and the cheese, and the flour and sugar -- all at the same time.
Heinz Janisch
Heave Ho!
The book is written intwelve sentences. In a awy like a counting books.
It begins with, This story is told in twelve sentences (start counting now!). In the first sentence, a cat runs into the story.
Ethopian Folk take: The fire by Heinz Janisch. How a person got inspirations from teh fire on the mountain.
The book is written intwelve sentences. In a awy like a counting books.
It begins with, This story is told in twelve sentences (start counting now!). In the first sentence, a cat runs into the story.
Ethopian Folk take: The fire by Heinz Janisch. How a person got inspirations from teh fire on the mountain.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tana Hoban so many cricles so many squares
I like the circluar shapes we see in the natural environment as they show motion and rhythum.
exactly the opposites
Push. Pull. Empty. Full
Look up, Look down
More, fewer, less
I read signs
exactly the opposites
Push. Pull. Empty. Full
Look up, Look down
More, fewer, less
I read signs
Listening silence by Phyllis Root
In the silence I wait
In the silence I listen
The native american mythology glossary is interesting.
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Coyote and the magic words by Phyllis Root (Coyote creates a problem with people by using day, night and other magic words)
Grandmother winter (very good illistrations)
In the silence I listen
The native american mythology glossary is interesting.
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Coyote and the magic words by Phyllis Root (Coyote creates a problem with people by using day, night and other magic words)
Grandmother winter (very good illistrations)
Monday, February 1, 2010
The amazing tree by john Kilaka
The book has a message to improve listening skills and everyone is important.
Paul Fleischman copier creations
Copier creations: using copier machines to make decals, silhouettes, flip books.
Shadow Play by Paul Fleischman and Eric beddows
Shadow Play by Paul Fleischman and Eric beddows
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Listening skills
I have a little problem said the bear by Heinz Janisch.
The bear wanted someone to listen to him and in the end he found a friend the fly. A good picture book.
The bear wanted someone to listen to him and in the end he found a friend the fly. A good picture book.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Sidewalk circus by Paul Fleischman
The book is a view of peole on the street similar to a circus. Manisha
Competitive strategy: Palnning your organizations' success, Sarah Layton
A book with worksheets and forms. Corporate Climate Assessment
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Jeb Brugman: Welcome to the urban revolution-how cities are changing the world
This book talks about density, scale, association and all this leads to cost efficiences -- extension.
Janet S Wong
The next new year. This book is about the Chinese New Year. It has tangeriens, peaches and fishes. The Chinese word for 'fish' sounds like the Chinese word for 'plenty'.
The trip back home: Set in Korea style. The narrative talks abour - clouds of rice cakes, rivers of small soup fish, and hills of hot chili peppers. Searching fro something crispy, fresh, and cheap enough for five.
The trip back home: Set in Korea style. The narrative talks abour - clouds of rice cakes, rivers of small soup fish, and hills of hot chili peppers. Searching fro something crispy, fresh, and cheap enough for five.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Working with you is killing me
by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster. The CDs discuss different personalities of the boss such as micromanager/difficult to delegate/idea or credit stealer. It has many business tools. It spoke about our response to a problem such as - physical, verbal, emotional and using of a business tool. Manisha
Monday, January 4, 2010
How to produce fabulous fundraising events/ Betty Stallings and Donna McMillion
This manual has templates for all the activities that are a part of the program. pg 93-168 has the tasks and the entity responsible for the tasks 'what to do' - board member, development director, executive director, or a volunteer. I like the 'Insider's Tips' such as, 'You want the Celebrity Waiters near the guests 'working' for tips, not in the kitchen getting the meals. I also like the level of depth and details such as 'four greeter volunteers, one security volunteer, and six funny money sellers and collectors, money counters, one counter supervisor/banker, one coat room volunteer, one event photographer, one videographer, three polaroid photographers, four live auction coordinators, . In the library context, I can add one information navigator. The 'Insider's Tip' = Especially important to train the funny money sellers on how to use the credit card machine.
Insider's Tip = If the tips are collected from the Celebrity Waiters and tabulated by the volunteers several times during the dinner, less time will be needed to finalize the results at the end of the dinner.
Insider's Tip = If the tips are collected from the Celebrity Waiters and tabulated by the volunteers several times during the dinner, less time will be needed to finalize the results at the end of the dinner.
- High Tea for teachers
- Celebrity Waiters and tipping revenue
- Estimate project event income and expenses
- Evaluate potential underwriters/sponsors
- Check with your insurance carrier about event insurance
- Prepare a preliminary budget to determine if the event as projected will meet the financial goals
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