CCBC-Net Archives
Re: ccbc-net digest: August 03, 2013
- Contemporary messages sorted: [ by date ] [ by subject ] [ by author ]
From: Mary Louise Sanchez <marylouisesanchez_3_at_msn.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:57:30 -0600
In our 3rd grade class in southern Wyoming in the 1950s I had a teacher named Donna Duerre Tully (from Davenport, Iowa) who was extremely creative and impacted me to the point that I became an elementary teacher. Our curriculum must have included the Native Americans and I remember how she embedded the subject into reading and art. She took our class outside to the playground with a shovel where she had us scoop up the hard clay dirt. We then used it to make clay pinch and coiled pots. We also made a teepee with sheets and drew pictograms with native symbols on the structure. We got to read in the teepee too! For our reading groups, we were named for various Indian tribes. We all made headbands with our chosen Indian name and got to add a paper feather to the headband for every book we read and I think reported on. My headband looked like I was a chief by the time I finished 3rd grade.
Mary Louise Sanchez marylouisesanchez_3_at_msn.com
I have other teachers who were creative too and I'll write about them. I too was a creative teacher!
----- Original Message -----
From: CCBC-Net digest To: ccbc-net digest recipients Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2013 11:17 PM Subject: ccbc-net digest: August 03, 2013
CCBC-NET Digest for Saturday, August 03, 2013.
1. Thank you and Please
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Thank you and Please
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 13:55:44 -0400 X-Message-Number: 1
First, many thanks to those of you who answered my recent request for memorable school experiences. In your replies I've read about some inspired moments and some creative and spontaneous teachers, just what I was hoping for. But like the baby in Vera Williams' picture book, I want "More, more, more" and I am hoping that by reposting the request I can encourage a few more of you to search your memory for school occasions that made a lasting impression on you. I really would appreciate it. Here is my original posting:
I hope this is an okay thing to do on this list. I have a nonfiction project in mind. It's still not firmly organized in my mind, but I know it's something I want to do, that I have wanted to do for years, and with which I'll need help from many people. If you remember a particular incident during your school years when a teacher did a creative bit of teaching, something unique, special, surprising, that has stayed in your memory for years, would you be willing to share it with me? I'm particularly looking for ways in which one teacher's passion and originality resulted in a meaningful experience for students. It could be something as simple as starting each day or class with a different quote from his or her favorite book. I am particularly thinking of elementary school, but I'm flexible. If you want to share the teacher's name, that would be fine, but if you can't remember it or don't wish to share it, that's perfectly all right. You can respond to me privately through this list or send me your information
by mail: Sally Derby, 8737 Empire Court, Cincinnati, OH, 45231. Thanks in advance for your help.
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:57:30 -0600
In our 3rd grade class in southern Wyoming in the 1950s I had a teacher named Donna Duerre Tully (from Davenport, Iowa) who was extremely creative and impacted me to the point that I became an elementary teacher. Our curriculum must have included the Native Americans and I remember how she embedded the subject into reading and art. She took our class outside to the playground with a shovel where she had us scoop up the hard clay dirt. We then used it to make clay pinch and coiled pots. We also made a teepee with sheets and drew pictograms with native symbols on the structure. We got to read in the teepee too! For our reading groups, we were named for various Indian tribes. We all made headbands with our chosen Indian name and got to add a paper feather to the headband for every book we read and I think reported on. My headband looked like I was a chief by the time I finished 3rd grade.
Mary Louise Sanchez marylouisesanchez_3_at_msn.com
I have other teachers who were creative too and I'll write about them. I too was a creative teacher!
----- Original Message -----
From: CCBC-Net digest To: ccbc-net digest recipients Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2013 11:17 PM Subject: ccbc-net digest: August 03, 2013
CCBC-NET Digest for Saturday, August 03, 2013.
1. Thank you and Please
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Thank you and Please
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 13:55:44 -0400 X-Message-Number: 1
First, many thanks to those of you who answered my recent request for memorable school experiences. In your replies I've read about some inspired moments and some creative and spontaneous teachers, just what I was hoping for. But like the baby in Vera Williams' picture book, I want "More, more, more" and I am hoping that by reposting the request I can encourage a few more of you to search your memory for school occasions that made a lasting impression on you. I really would appreciate it. Here is my original posting:
I hope this is an okay thing to do on this list. I have a nonfiction project in mind. It's still not firmly organized in my mind, but I know it's something I want to do, that I have wanted to do for years, and with which I'll need help from many people. If you remember a particular incident during your school years when a teacher did a creative bit of teaching, something unique, special, surprising, that has stayed in your memory for years, would you be willing to share it with me? I'm particularly looking for ways in which one teacher's passion and originality resulted in a meaningful experience for students. It could be something as simple as starting each day or class with a different quote from his or her favorite book. I am particularly thinking of elementary school, but I'm flexible. If you want to share the teacher's name, that would be fine, but if you can't remember it or don't wish to share it, that's perfectly all right. You can respond to me privately through this list or send me your information
by mail: Sally Derby, 8737 Empire Court, Cincinnati, OH, 45231. Thanks in advance for your help.
--- END OF DIGEST ---Received on Sun 04 Aug 2013 07:57:30 PM CDT
