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'Wordy' reads...Books about Words
Wednesday a ‘W’ word, seems the perfect day to share three books I’ve been poring over the last week. All three centre around...
JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 4, 20242 min read
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An Exhibition of Bookish Art
This banner features titles beginning with the coordinating alphabet from our collection in the library As a Library Educator, I am...
JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 1, 20243 min read
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Pairing and Comparing Wedding Baraat Picture Books
Tuesday’s are ‘twosday’s’ on my Instagram account @mythaunty , when I share a pair of books. When we received the PHL Book Box, from...
JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 21, 20232 min read
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Library Love during Valentine's Week
With commercial Valentine’s day messages bombarding us all across different media, it is only natural for the children to want to...
JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 19, 20232 min read
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Nurturing Writers in the Library
When I shared author Jerry Pinto’s reel on Instagram yesterday, I remembered that I had brought home a new ‘book’ from school, one that I...
JoAnne Saldanha
Nov 7, 20222 min read
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Library Fun...Six Word Memoirs
Last week in the library, we had fun with ‘six word memoirs’, which have popularly been attributed to Hemingway. Hemingway, as you know...
JoAnne Saldanha
Nov 4, 20221 min read
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Using a Pair of Books to explore the story of Noah's Ark
Tuesday's are TWOSDAYS here at Myth Aunty, where I explore pairing books in different ways. By pairing books, we not only extend a book...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jul 5, 20223 min read
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Wilderness Card Game...Educational and Fun!!
I was waiting for this to arrive, following the updates from it's creators on social media . This one is for the school library…A...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 2, 20222 min read
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'Twosday' Pairings...Kiss the Cow & Lakshmi the Water Buffalo Who Would'nt.
‘TWOSDAY PAIRS' Making connections is how we comprehend what we are reading, helping us get a deeper understanding, scaffolding our...
JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 15, 20223 min read
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The Nameless God
As I began reading Savie Karnel‘s The Nameless God, published by Red Panda, I was sucked into the book. Right from the names of the two...
JoAnne Saldanha
Dec 22, 20213 min read
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Voting for the Jarul Book Awards 2021
There was a wonderful buzz around the library this past week. We had read the 3 books shortlisted for the Jarul Book awards over the...
JoAnne Saldanha
Dec 14, 20212 min read
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A Journey into our imagination with Morris Lessmore
September 2020 The last online library sessions of the term this week, and I wanted to leave my students thinking about books, reading...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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Encouraging browsing with Book Spine Poetry.
One of the big complaints in the school library is ‘We don’t have any books to read!’ Yet, I look at the shelves and see them groaning...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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Story Fun
25th March 2021 My students thoroughly enjoy participatory activities in the school library. With online fatigue rather strong, the fun...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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Valentines Day Demands in the Library
February 2020 I was requested...rather firmly by my 'Phoenix’s', my oldest group at Redwood Montessori, to please plan a Valentine’s Day...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20211 min read
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