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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20214 min read
The Unboy Boy...examining gender roles through a picture book.
Gagan is a happy, gentle little boy who loves observing ants, colouring, collecting stamps and other comparably gentle pursuits, with his...
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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
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Story Fun
25th March 2021 My students thoroughly enjoy participatory activities in the school library. With online fatigue rather strong, the fun...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20211 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20211 min read
Eliciting some library love with display boards.
February 2020 It was all about love in the school library last year. Children shared some library love during the Valentine's week. Now...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 6, 20212 min read
Jewels under the saddle...a story.
As an old Irish saying goes.... "Three apples fell from the tree. One for he who tells the story, one for he who reads/listens to the...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 6, 20217 min read
Do we need Children's Books on Domestic Violence?
This article first appeared on The Bookwallis, a Facebook page I write on with 2 other educators, we covered themes by 'Voicing the...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 6, 20213 min read
When Hardwork and Dedication prove their might.
9 November, 2019 So what can I say about this evening? It all started in the first week of September, when author Aparna Jain, who...
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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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