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Monday, March 29th, 2010Trout Are Made of Trees has been nominated for the 2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award so lots of AZ schoolchildren will be reading it next school year. Hooray!
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Food Chain, Food Web Activity for Trout Are Made of Trees
Monday, April 13th, 2009Shirley Duke recently presented this food web and food chain activity at the Texas Library Association Convention. She’s generously letting me post the entire activity for download here.
Trout Are Made of Trees, by April Pulley Sayre. Illustrated by Kate Endle
ISBN: 978-1-58089-137-0 Charlesbridge
Grade Level: 3-5
Subject: Science: Food Chain, System Interactions, Processes Within Systems, Consequences of Removing Vital Components
Prepared by: Shirley Duke www.simplyscience.wordpress.com; www.shirleysmithduke.com
Ants, Vultures, and Compost Curricula, Lexington SC Schools
Monday, March 30th, 2009A few more photos from Lexington School District in SC. I was there for 9 days of talks including a weekend READ Fest, a community event put on by the extraordinary school librarians of this district.
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- Librarian Val Byrd Fort at New Providence Elem came up with this fish craft to go with my books.
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- Uh, oh, Clemson Crab at New Providence Elem
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- Gilbert Primary Welcome
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- Office staff borrowed ants from local classroom for our picnic!
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- Vulture Trees Gilbert Primary
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- What to do with books retired from the library! This was at Midway Elem
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- Lexington Intermediate students examine compost contents before and after the process. Great science is happening here thanks to teacher Mrs. A!
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- Read Fest signing with Lexington High’s Elizabeth Harrill. A wonderful librarian and a terrific event.
Trout Are Made of Trees Illustrator
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Here’s a link to a blog that asks Kate Endle about her art, including the art she did for our book, Trout Are Made of Trees. Hooray, Kate!
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Trout Are Made of Trees Activities and Fish Chant Art
Sunday, December 14th, 2008From Hamilton School, some extraordinary art and thought!
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- Trout Are Made of Trees Steps Study
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- Trout/Trees Sequences Writing
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- Trout Are Made of Trees Art
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- Fun with trout art and color!
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- More rainbows of trout!
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- celebrating color and movement
What’s New 2008
Monday, December 1st, 2008This has been a great year. VULTURE VIEW was named a Theodor Geisel Honor book by the American Library Association.
See the lovely Geisel Honor Sticker?
This relatively new award is named after Dr. Seuss and it honors both the text and illustrations of books geared for children beginning to read. I am thrilled and so happy for my work to be paired with the great illustrations done by Steve Jenkins. I attended the ALA national conference in Anaheim to accept the Honor Award. (more…)
Contest Flyer For Trout Are Made of Trees
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Here is the Be a Stream Hero Contest Flyer for grades K-2.
Deadline is December 31, 2008.
Winner receives a huge collection of new books and a school visit by April Pulley Sayre
anywhere in the U. S.
Fish Activities for Trout, Trout, Trout and Trout Are Made of Trees
Thursday, September 25th, 2008-
- Fish Poetry at Nappanee Elem
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- Nappanee educators created this fish hallway with language activities
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- Swimming in Poetry
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- Stuffed fish art at Nappanee
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- Graphic/ Comic book format to learn story structure at Waynesville, OH school
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- More multi-dimensional fish art in Waynesville, OH!
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- Wow, Waynesville. I love this green fish. Looks like a young trunkfish.
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- Research fish using library forms to organize thoughts
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- These library activities were created by a media specialist, Columbus, OH
Trout Are Made of Trees Activities
Monday, September 8th, 2008
I have teamed up with Charlesbridge publishing, the publisher of this book, and created the Be a Stream Hero contest. The winner of the contest wins a school visit from me.
In fact, in honor of Trout Are Made of Trees, Charlesbridge publishing staff spent a day cleaning up the Charles river! (more…)
