April Pulley Sayre Author Photo illustrator
Website for April Pulley Sayre, Award-winning Children's Book Author / Illustrator
Last summer we visited the Jean-Talon Market in Montréal. Don’t go too early, as we did, because most of the farmers arrive a bit later than our farmers here in the Midwest. But wow, the displays are amazing.
Next to the boxes of lychees, were Cape gooseberries, which come in husks like tomatillos. It is related to the tomatillo and tomato.
Here’s the wikipedia on this fruit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis
Also, enjoy a few more photos from the market:
A little bit of my sound art, related to nonfiction.
It is going to take me quite a while to process all the great teaching techniques I witnessed at Indian Hill Elementary and Indian Hill Primary, two schools in Cincinnati. Just look at what Mrs. Bauer and her class were doing with nonfiction. This is a classroom full of words. You can see their process on the walls. Continue reading “The Dynamic Nonfiction Classroom: a Visit to Indian Hill Elementary in Ohio”