Kay, I think I can help with your creative juices and your thinking about gardening. While certifying for National Board, I created a series of lessons to introduce young students ages 3-8 to the comprehension thinking strategies using the auspice of gardening for students to make connections to the text, to the world and to themselves. I hope my ideas help you. Visit my website "Planting a Literacy Garden" at: http://literacy-garden.tripod.com and let me know if this will help with your lesson planning. If you feel some of my ideas might work for you, please drop me an email about how my lesons may have impacted your students comprehension skills. Thanks,
-- Michele Polselli NBCT '06 Literacy Coordinator & K Teacher Portsmouth School Dept. Portsmouth, RI 02871 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ============= Olga, I can't help but jump in here and let you know that your web has triggered "scads" of ideas for me for the start of the new school year. My grade partner and I have been struggling to find a common thread for the coming school year. We just attended a tech training that involved a field trip to the botanical gardens with a digital camera and decided to go with gardening as our focus. As I read about your web I kept making connections with garden needs and tools and materials. I might even consider bringing in the real tools to help introduce each new concept. I can't wait to get started planning! Please be sure to send pictures as you finish up. I would love to see the idea that sparked my own creativity. Kay in AZ _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
