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From: edie.ching at verizon.net <edie.ching>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:20:47 -0600 (CST)
The Cindy Post books about manners really resonate with my students and their parents and are on a list I prepare for my parents regarding the physical, ethical and emotional life of their sons (I teach at an all boys' school). Cindy has come to my school several times now and done a workshop with our fourth graders about where manners come from, why we need them and how they work. What this does is gives us a vocabulary to talk about ill mannered behavior and sets a certain standard that we can then hold our students, teachers and parents too. I wish you could have seen the boys working on their thank you notes to Cindy, trying to incorporate all of her suggestions. Our families have used these books for at home discussions too. In regard to the Dangerous Boys books it has been suggested by one of our teachers that our students read it in common this summer as part of their summer reading program and that their "report" be some evidence of a project that they did from the book--they can take a photography, bring it in (if it's not too big), make a video, etc. Edie Ching St. Albans School Megan
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:20:47 -0600 (CST)
The Cindy Post books about manners really resonate with my students and their parents and are on a list I prepare for my parents regarding the physical, ethical and emotional life of their sons (I teach at an all boys' school). Cindy has come to my school several times now and done a workshop with our fourth graders about where manners come from, why we need them and how they work. What this does is gives us a vocabulary to talk about ill mannered behavior and sets a certain standard that we can then hold our students, teachers and parents too. I wish you could have seen the boys working on their thank you notes to Cindy, trying to incorporate all of her suggestions. Our families have used these books for at home discussions too. In regard to the Dangerous Boys books it has been suggested by one of our teachers that our students read it in common this summer as part of their summer reading program and that their "report" be some evidence of a project that they did from the book--they can take a photography, bring it in (if it's not too big), make a video, etc. Edie Ching St. Albans School Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 608/262-9503 schliesman at education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net Edith Ching Washington Children's Book Guild President Librarian, St. Albans School If she...had known how long he first haf-inch beginning to let go would take--and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight--would she have begun? Annie DillardReceived on Thu 14 Feb 2008 01:20:47 PM CST
