Those of you who visit the Reading Room often comment on the quiet music playing in the background and on the mood it creates for those of us working in the room. Music is funny like that — it sends a subtle, subliminal message about behavior, about stress levels, about emotions and about what’s [...]
June 3, 2008
New Classroom Organizing Book
This looks like a must-read!! Especially for those of us who really got into the whole Trading Spaces: Classroom Edition last summer.
Debbie Diller is doing some amazing classsroom makeovers. She’s written a book about the process. Right now, one chapter is available online at Stenhouse. You can read for free. [...]
June 3, 2008
Phonological Awareness: Music Downloads
You all know that I love Between the Lions from PBS for building phonological awareness and early reading skills. How great is this??? Between the Lions now has some free MP3 downloads that you can drop right onto your IPod or onto the school computer via ITunes (Itunes is already loaded in the applications on [...]
