Summer Institute 1 Fellows
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Hey Everybody
Does anyone know how to invite folks to a blog? I am creating one for my senior students. I need to separate them from the freshman, therefore it is important for me to have an invite only blog. Also, I will use this venue at both levels to begin the writing process for the NWP activity, Letters to the Next President. Thanks anyone and I hope everyone is having a great start to the new year.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Back to School
I just want to thank everyone for contributing to such a wonderful and insightful three weeks. As we all prepare to go back into our classrooms and unpack everything, including the boxes we packed away in June, I just wanted to share a web site that is offering a free reading kit for your classroom. It is as follows:
http://www.tabarron.com/for-educators
May we all have GREAT starts to our school year.
Michelle
http://www.tabarron.com/for-educators
May we all have GREAT starts to our school year.
Michelle
setting up my classroom tomorrow!
Hi Everybody!
After an exhausting weekend, I'm looking forward to entering my new domain, of my classroom tomorrow, armed with the thousands of ideas I got from PhilWP and from you guys over the last 3 weeks. FYI, I found a set of Writing Workshop posters at AC Moore on sale for $5 over the weekend. I plan to teach my kids the steps and skills for each part of the process and to have them move their name cards along the wall as they progress through each step. I may also do the charting shown in the article by the first grade teacher that we read 2 weeks ago.
For those of you who are starting PD at your schools this week, hopefully you can be positive parts of that community experience and bring some of your PhilWP expertise into the mix of your staff!
Hasta Pronto!
Christina
After an exhausting weekend, I'm looking forward to entering my new domain, of my classroom tomorrow, armed with the thousands of ideas I got from PhilWP and from you guys over the last 3 weeks. FYI, I found a set of Writing Workshop posters at AC Moore on sale for $5 over the weekend. I plan to teach my kids the steps and skills for each part of the process and to have them move their name cards along the wall as they progress through each step. I may also do the charting shown in the article by the first grade teacher that we read 2 weeks ago.
For those of you who are starting PD at your schools this week, hopefully you can be positive parts of that community experience and bring some of your PhilWP expertise into the mix of your staff!
Hasta Pronto!
Christina
Thank You PhilWP!
I just wanted to say how much I appreciated being a part of the Philadelphia writing project. I have learned a great deal. The facilitators, presentors, and the wonderful teachers that I got to spend a part of my summer with were engaging and extremely knowledgable and kind people. The readings were relevant and helpful to my pedagogy and practice. I will keep them for reference in the future as I am sure they will be helpful. All of the CI projects were informative and useful to my classroom practice. It seems like we crammed so much into three week and the time went quickly. I am so glad that I had the chance to be teamed up with such terrific professionals.
Friday, August 22, 2008
End of a good 3 weeks!
THANK YOU!
Atuwfa, Chelsea, Bonnee, and Kathleen thank you for playing the role of students. During my turn in my CI group. It's not easy for me to stand before people. You didn't get a heads up but you played in with good spirits. Things could have gone differently, these three weeks again has proven the importance of community building. Trust and friendships were develop thank you.
To: Group 1 you are the best. I have learned from all of you Ladies you are a wealth of knowledge and strength. Thanks for allowing me to give my private group talks (what's said in the group stays in the group) (Judy smile luv you girl)
To: Philwp 2008 I could not have been more bless to meet and get to know a great bunch of people. You all have given me a piece of you and I say thank you. The knowledge that each of you hold money can't pay for. Best wishes for this new school year, we made it and are here to tell the people, community building and inquiry stance does work.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
CI, etc.
Hi, some random thoughts:
The presentations today were so engaging and provoked a lot of thought.
Also, an early P.S. to our (Group 5) CI: the Library of Congress website (loc.gov) is an useful resource for researching different countries, also historical projects post-sixties (particularly primary sources) and a photo file that contains many free use photos. I have used this site for units on the Great Depression, African American history, and the Gilded Age. The archive also includes some oral narratives, so if you have access to speakers, the students can actually hear a clip of a farmer who lived in the Dust Bowl or a song from long ago.
Does every other person who goes through Philwp feel that his/her group had the best people?
I don't know you very well at all, but just from listening to what each person shared in our discussions, reading what each person wrote, witnessing each person's presentation, I believe each of you are such fine individuals or as Brenda so aptly put it when the Institute first started, "You all are some kind of people." I am awed by your insight and expertise, and proud to call you, my colleague. Best wishes for a great school beginning!
I think our learning at the Institute is one for constructivism. Though sometimes I felt a little unsure when I was doing my assignments, I think in hindsight our facilitators' loose-ness in directions was an effective strategy. The learning came from us engaging in the activity and thinking so hard instead of being imposed from the teacher (facilitator) and following specific steps which requires little thinking. Now that could be a CI, right?
Some of your ideas I think some library journals may be interested in. Here are some addresses if you wish to submit your work for publication:
BookLinks 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611(www.ala.org/booklinks/)
VOYA (Voice of the Youth Advocate) -library magazine serving young adults--(www.voya.com)
Scarecrow Press,Inc., 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706
Also, there are School Library Journal and others but I don't have the addresses handy.
Finally, I wanted to find out what the One Book, One Philadelphia was for 2009 on the FLP site. No luck, but they do have some authors of interest to students coming in the fall. Among them are Cornelia Funke, Toni Morrison, a panel of graphic novelists, David Macauley. Those are the few this fried brain can recall, but if you're interested you can go online and check out these events. Some of them are free; some there is a charge. The FLP offers Teen author events and children's author events, but as I so sadly learned when I missed Jeff McKinney's visit (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, et al), if you aren't on their list, they don't call you or send you stuff. So I must have been on the list for teens, but not children. These events are usually on a school day afternoon and are free. The liason from the FLP comes to your school a few weeks prior to the event and delivers a class set of the author's book. I don't have the telephone number of the woman in charge here at home, but I'm sure you could just call the main library and ask about children's author events or teen author events. B the Book Lady
The presentations today were so engaging and provoked a lot of thought.
Also, an early P.S. to our (Group 5) CI: the Library of Congress website (loc.gov) is an useful resource for researching different countries, also historical projects post-sixties (particularly primary sources) and a photo file that contains many free use photos. I have used this site for units on the Great Depression, African American history, and the Gilded Age. The archive also includes some oral narratives, so if you have access to speakers, the students can actually hear a clip of a farmer who lived in the Dust Bowl or a song from long ago.
Does every other person who goes through Philwp feel that his/her group had the best people?
I don't know you very well at all, but just from listening to what each person shared in our discussions, reading what each person wrote, witnessing each person's presentation, I believe each of you are such fine individuals or as Brenda so aptly put it when the Institute first started, "You all are some kind of people." I am awed by your insight and expertise, and proud to call you, my colleague. Best wishes for a great school beginning!
I think our learning at the Institute is one for constructivism. Though sometimes I felt a little unsure when I was doing my assignments, I think in hindsight our facilitators' loose-ness in directions was an effective strategy. The learning came from us engaging in the activity and thinking so hard instead of being imposed from the teacher (facilitator) and following specific steps which requires little thinking. Now that could be a CI, right?
Some of your ideas I think some library journals may be interested in. Here are some addresses if you wish to submit your work for publication:
BookLinks 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611(www.ala.org/booklinks/)
VOYA (Voice of the Youth Advocate) -library magazine serving young adults--(www.voya.com)
Scarecrow Press,Inc., 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706
Also, there are School Library Journal and others but I don't have the addresses handy.
Finally, I wanted to find out what the One Book, One Philadelphia was for 2009 on the FLP site. No luck, but they do have some authors of interest to students coming in the fall. Among them are Cornelia Funke, Toni Morrison, a panel of graphic novelists, David Macauley. Those are the few this fried brain can recall, but if you're interested you can go online and check out these events. Some of them are free; some there is a charge. The FLP offers Teen author events and children's author events, but as I so sadly learned when I missed Jeff McKinney's visit (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, et al), if you aren't on their list, they don't call you or send you stuff. So I must have been on the list for teens, but not children. These events are usually on a school day afternoon and are free. The liason from the FLP comes to your school a few weeks prior to the event and delivers a class set of the author's book. I don't have the telephone number of the woman in charge here at home, but I'm sure you could just call the main library and ask about children's author events or teen author events. B the Book Lady
Bibliography for Group 5's CI
Hi, all. Here is our bibliography for our collaborative inquiry.
Inquiry Question: How can our students celebrate culture through researching foods and gardening?
Collaborative Inquiry Amodei, Cook, Kearney, Saxton 3
Additional Readings:
Demi. One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. NY: Scholastic Press, 1997.
Retelling of this folktale set in India shows the multiplication of food when one is shared.
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. City Green. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
A young girl explores the development of a community garden. DiSalvo-Ryan used Philadelphia Green as the inspiration for this picture book.
Dooley, Norah. Everybody Bakes Bread. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Press, 1993.
Fleischman, Paul. Seedfolks.Illustrations by Judy Pederson. NY: Harper Collins, 1997.
Slim novel offering vignettes of people from a city neighborhood (Cleveland) who
farm a community garden.
Gelman, Rita Golden. Rice Is Life. Paintings by Yangsook Choi. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1999.
Shows growth of rice plant in Indonesia. Coupled with poetry.
Hill, Lee Sullivan. Farms Feed the World. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1997.
Illustrated book describing how foods are grown around the world.
Kindersley, Barnabas and Anabel. Children Just Like Me. NY: DK Publishing, Inc., 1995.
Oversized book featuring brief facts about culture and customs of children around
the world.
Priceman, Marjorie. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World. NY: Alfred A. Knopf,
1994.
A closed market does not daunt the desire of a girl to bake an apple pie. She travels
the world to obtain the necessary ingredients. Also a Reading Rainbow video/DVD.
Regguinti, Gordon. The Sacred Harvest: Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering. Photographs by
Dale Kakkak. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992.
Photographs enhance this nonfiction work telling of the history and modern production
of rice among the Ojibway people in the Great Lakes region.
Rendon, Marcie R., and Cheryl Walsh Bellville. Farmer’s Market: Families Working Together.
Photographs by Cheryl Walsh Bellville. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc, 2001.Photographs show how different cultures grow food and sell it at the market.
Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia. Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice. Illustrated by Robert Roh.
NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997.
Main character collects different ingredients for pot of rice from neighbors of different cultures.
Solheim, James. It’s Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts Around the World and
Throughout History. Illustrated by Eric Brace. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.
Illustrated in a cartoonish style, this book takes a breezy, comical approach to
identifying foods we may have in common with other people and times as well as how our culinary tastes may differ.
Zamorano, Ana.Let’s Eat! Illustrated by Julie Vivas.NY: Scholastic Press, 1996.
Expressive illustrations lead the reader through a family’s food preparation.
References to garden as a source of food and Spanish words included.
Inquiry Question: How can our students celebrate culture through researching foods and gardening?
Collaborative Inquiry Amodei, Cook, Kearney, Saxton 3
Additional Readings:
Demi. One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. NY: Scholastic Press, 1997.
Retelling of this folktale set in India shows the multiplication of food when one is shared.
DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne. City Green. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
A young girl explores the development of a community garden. DiSalvo-Ryan used Philadelphia Green as the inspiration for this picture book.
Dooley, Norah. Everybody Bakes Bread. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Press, 1993.
Fleischman, Paul. Seedfolks.Illustrations by Judy Pederson. NY: Harper Collins, 1997.
Slim novel offering vignettes of people from a city neighborhood (Cleveland) who
farm a community garden.
Gelman, Rita Golden. Rice Is Life. Paintings by Yangsook Choi. NY: Henry Holt and Co., 1999.
Shows growth of rice plant in Indonesia. Coupled with poetry.
Hill, Lee Sullivan. Farms Feed the World. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1997.
Illustrated book describing how foods are grown around the world.
Kindersley, Barnabas and Anabel. Children Just Like Me. NY: DK Publishing, Inc., 1995.
Oversized book featuring brief facts about culture and customs of children around
the world.
Priceman, Marjorie. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World. NY: Alfred A. Knopf,
1994.
A closed market does not daunt the desire of a girl to bake an apple pie. She travels
the world to obtain the necessary ingredients. Also a Reading Rainbow video/DVD.
Regguinti, Gordon. The Sacred Harvest: Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering. Photographs by
Dale Kakkak. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1992.
Photographs enhance this nonfiction work telling of the history and modern production
of rice among the Ojibway people in the Great Lakes region.
Rendon, Marcie R., and Cheryl Walsh Bellville. Farmer’s Market: Families Working Together.
Photographs by Cheryl Walsh Bellville. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc, 2001.Photographs show how different cultures grow food and sell it at the market.
Rosa-Casanova, Sylvia. Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice. Illustrated by Robert Roh.
NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997.
Main character collects different ingredients for pot of rice from neighbors of different cultures.
Solheim, James. It’s Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts Around the World and
Throughout History. Illustrated by Eric Brace. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.
Illustrated in a cartoonish style, this book takes a breezy, comical approach to
identifying foods we may have in common with other people and times as well as how our culinary tastes may differ.
Zamorano, Ana.Let’s Eat! Illustrated by Julie Vivas.NY: Scholastic Press, 1996.
Expressive illustrations lead the reader through a family’s food preparation.
References to garden as a source of food and Spanish words included.
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