Picture Book of the Day
Earth Day Every Day
by Lisa Bullard (Author) and Xiao Xin (Illustrator)
Booktalk: On Earth Day, we find ways to help the Earth. Trina plants trees with her class. She forms an Earth Day club with her friends. What can you do to make every day Earth Day? Do your part to be a planet protector!
Snippet:
Mom says people should clean up their own messes.
Earthlings made this Earth a mess.
So we Earthlings should fix it.
It’s a job for everyone.
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Chapter Book of the Day
Scheduling Smarts: How to Get Organized, Prioritize, Manage Your Time, and More
by Sandy Donovan (Author)
64 pages
Booktalk: Time management. It’s a challenge for everyone. Between homework, family life, friendships, and after-school activities, most teens feel overscheduled and stressed out. But did you know you can create a ‘time budget’ to help you manage your list of to-dos? Or that identifying your priorities is a great first step toward getting your crazy schedule under control?
Snippet: Ever heard the expression, “Time is money?” People use this phrase to describe how valuable time is. What they’re really saying is, “Treat your time like money, because you’ll never feel as if you have enough of it.” In fact, this saying is true in more ways than one. Time is valuable, and you do need to budget it just like you budget money.
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Nonfiction Monday
This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up host is Ana’s NonFiction Blog
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Nonfiction Book Blast 2012
Deborah Hopkinson booktalks Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
on the Nonfiction Book Blast blog today…
Save the date! June 23, 2012 Nonfiction Book Blast 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
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STEM Haiku
In honor of National Poetry Month, we invite you to share an original STEM haiku.
(STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
Share your original STEM haiku at the new STEM Friday blog.
pruning the roses
I cut the old canes
away, and new ones grew back
fuller and stronger.
© 2012 Anastasia Suen
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Read and Write Sports: Readers Theatre and Writing Activities for Grades 3-8
Copyright © 2012 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
“Scheduling Smarts” is a book I desperately need…thank you for posting about it!