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JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 6, 20213 min read
Art IS Everywhere
Art Theme Week 10 We have just one more week of school before we break for holidays. With Pratham’s One Day, one story, scheduled for the...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Sometimes misfortune can indeed be a blessing.
August, 2020 Sion, an excellent and well-respected fortune-teller, lives in a kingdom just along the Great Wall of China. Everyone went...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
The Great Kapok Tree...a classic.
28 July, 2019 When I first planned to post a review of The Great Kapok Tree’ by Lynne Cherry, I didn’t know that it was World Nature...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Sometimes a book needs children to work its magic...Ravi's Roar.
I have a self imposed rule of only reading aloud books or orally narrating stories that I connect with. Yet every once in a while, I come...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
MAY BOOKS INSPIRE YOU DEAR CHILDREN
14 NOVEMBER, 2019 A wish for all the children in my life, this Children’s Day…may books inspire you: To care… To be brave… Enough… To...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20213 min read
Magnificent Persistence
October, 2020 This term I planned a unit on books about people who created different things. I do not want to use the word inventor or...
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JoAnne Saldanha
May 23, 20212 min read
The Lion's Feast...a romp of a story, an absolute treat.
February, 2018 If an illustrator signs a copy of his book for my students at school, a bias is warranted isn't it? So at the outset, let...
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