Monthly Archives: October 2014

Focus – making little changes to make big steps

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Joanne Toft

I have been working on two blogs over the last few years. One that is named Garden Learning: Learning in a Wild Garden      ( http://gardenlearning.net/) and this one Words from JL (https://wordsfromjl.wordpress.com/). They have been great fun but I … Continue reading →

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Boots are made for walking

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Joanne Toft

I just sat down next to the first inside fire of the fall season. I sit and unlace my hiking boots. The good old trusted boots that seem to signal the change of seasons. These are the boots I wear … Continue reading →

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It’s Monday! What are you reading? stories connection to stories

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Joanne Toft

I just finished I Killed the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora. (May 2014) I love how authors are connecting old stories to new stories. The old reader in me loves that I can think back to these old classics and see … Continue reading →

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Beginning writers

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Joanne Toft

They are all beginners and there are so many things they do not know or have words for but they are all writers. Yesterday I had the delight to sit in the back of a classroom watching a third year … Continue reading →

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It’s Monday! What are you reading? Deborah Wiles

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Joanne Toft

I have been doing my own little author study the last few weeks. Deborah Wiles has taken over my reading time. I have used and loved her picture book Freedom Summer for years but now have picked up her middle … Continue reading →

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Testing – a struggle to grow up quickly

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Joanne Toft

Testing and testing on the computer is a part of our children’s lives. It is something that happens I am guessing in most schools across the country. We know our children are considered computer natives. They know computers, smart phone … Continue reading →

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It’s Monday! What are your reading? – documentary novel

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Joanne Toft

Sometime you find a MG book that is great but you realize it is great for you. You being an adult who was a kid in 1960’s. That is just what I found in Deborah Wiles book Countdown, the first … Continue reading →

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