I love teaching. I especially enjoy building the foundations of life long reading in my students. As the end of the year approaches some teachers sit the kids down in front of a DVD so that deadlines for paper filing and bulletin board clearing can be met. I bring 2 large bins of my favourite children's stories out of hiding. Books that have not made it onto my many classroom bookshelves. The bins contain old favourites and newer series books, comics and magazines, novels, short stories and jokes. The kids huddle around those 'new ' books and read and read and read...a couple of hours a day for 3 or 4 days. I get my crap under control. The kids think they have hit the jackpot. DVDs can wait until rainy July days when boredom sets in. My students all seem to have DVD players but far too many of them don't have a collection of well loved books.
And today? I also love that summer break is 4 school days away.
I am accepting suggestions for my own summer reading. Do you have an adoption or Vietnam read that I must not miss? I have 8 cottage lounge chair days to fill up the week after next.
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2 comments:
No adoption books, but I just finished Water for Elephants. Great read! Also Eat, Pray, Love.
I loved teaching too!
You need to read the Dana Sachs novels if you haven't already. I've read the book "if you lived here" loved it. Now I'm trying to get my hands on her other novel, but it seems to be sold out everywhere. You can't even find it online (atleast I can't). Let me know if you come across any other great finds.
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