It’s not quite the end of the week – but it is nearly the end of term. And you can bet that, come mid August, all those bright wee things will have sprouted extra inches of leg and new hairstyles and far more in-depth knowledge of whatever it is they’re keen on. So maybe it’s …
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Making: reusing fabric
I don’t know if the moment has passed, but there seemed to be a stage at which you were besieged with eco bags at every turn. Supermarkets sold them to you; conferences pressed them on you (to hold all the paper that you then didn’t need anyway. Hmm.) I started into eco bags a while …
Friday phrase: I said them but I lied them
Dr Seuss seems to be going round my head at the moment. And really, why not? For all of the famous restricted vocabulary, to help beginning readers, he also worked incredibly hard at making the stories effective. Even when they seem unlikely choices. Some time back now (lost in the mists of parenting time), Junior …
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Making: a teeny tiny quilt
Long long ago, it seems, I acquired a book on quilting. It’s a good one, including a mix of photos of the real thing, and lots of projects to try out. Even further ago, I found myself teaching in Poland (second time around), again at a point where my hands needed something to do in …
Lit Kid: folk tales from around the world
I’ve written about folk tales before. Mostly in the ‘fill the gap between chapter books‘ kind of way. And that’s good. But with Junior Reader somewhat more of a seasoned traveller than before, and a bit more aware of different countries (thank you, Olympics and Commonwealth Games), folk tales from around the world now have …
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