April Pulley Sayre Children’s Book Author: Writing Process

If I Were a Dust Particle . . . More from Indian Hill Elementary!

March 29th, 2009

Here are some more great educational ideas from Indian Hill Elementary in Cincinnati, Ohio. These are from a school visit week in Feb, 2009. The first ones extend STARS BENEATH YOUR BED: THE SURPRISING STORY OF DUST.

: A student imagines where dust goes!

: Students imagine fiction based on Stars Beneath Your Bed

: Each classroom had a welcome board outside the door with that day’s special message to students.

: I visited with so many great educators at Indian Ridge. This teacher had her students write buggy poems. For another project they made masks related to the characters in books.

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The Writing On the Wall: Divine Writing!

March 11th, 2009

Here’s a school honoring writing. Sandhills Elementary in Swansea, SC. A beautiful framed board where teachers can honor the greatest recent writing by their students. Bravo!

The Divine Writing Wall!

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Analyzing and Honoring Writing at Sandhills Elem in Swansea, SC

March 11th, 2009

See how the teachers at Sandhills Elementary honor writing and analyze books.

Vultures and Science Soar in Middletown, OH

February 18th, 2009

Thanks to super science teacher Bobette Owen (on the right in the photo), I visited Miller Ridge Elementary on Feb 12, 2009. The students were great! I love that they have so much science in this school. Just look at how Ms. Owen combined science with writing and poetry. In honor of my book Vulture View (illustrated by Steve Jenkins and published by Henry Holt) her students wrote vulture list poems!