Wednesday, August 7, 2013.

Magazine, as well as a poem in the September issue of. I am thrilled and honored to have won. Thank you, SCBWI! I am a member of the SCBWI and. I hang out on my blog. On a semi-regular basis, so please stop by! .

Monday, September 12, 2016. Is a story about building, planning, teamwork and problem-solving. It takes a team to build a tree house. But what if that team includes one very bossy moose who is not a good team-player? Read the story and then challenge your students to work as a team to build a pyramid out of cups. The catch? No one is allowed to touch the cups directly with their hands or any part of their body. You can find a formal lesson plan here.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018. On and off for nearly a decade, I had the extraordinary pleasure of digging through school library closets for class sets of titles deemed relevant to a state curriculum for teenage students. Sometimes I got a choice. The Lord of the Flies.

Used to engage early learners in the promotion of expressive language and vocabulary building skills. Friday, October 31, 2014.

Hi and welcome to my Friday series The Hairbag Poet. In the blogging world Fridays are known as Poetry Friday. You can read about Poetry Friday here. I will plan on posting The Hairbag Poet each Friday. You can read about the history of this series here.

Continuing the celebration of poetry for National Poetry Month. Poem in Your Pocket Day. org website and checked out their 30 ways to celebrate national poetry month. A Rainbow in My Pocket.