Saturday, January 14, 2017

Celebrate This Week: Friends, Bloggers, and Finding Neverland

                             Join us each weekend for Celebrate This Week with Ruth Ayres. 
                                                      When we pause to celebrate, we find the joy.
Discover. Play. Build. 
A week filled with moments to celebrate and remember!

I celebrate time with two good friends at an independent bookstore.
I touted the merits of recent middle grade books I've read in preparation for the upcoming announcement of the Newbery award.
And I snapped pics of titles that caught my eye.  






I celebrate finding new blogging friends.
This morning I read Kate Kraushaar's post on TWT.   While I don't read all the TWT posts anymore, anytime a middle school teacher is featured I'm compelled to read it.  At the end of her post, I clicked on the link to Kate's blog and scrolled through her posts, stopping to read more if something caught my eye.  And I found one I simply must share.   Check out Kate's post which provides some questions to guide students as they reflect on their progress in reaching this goal:  
"Students will be able to select and comprehend good-fit books, build their reading stamina,
and show their thinking in writing and conversation."  
If you're looking for a way to have your students write authentically about their reading lives, then this post is a great starting place.   

I celebrate that my daughter and I are headed to the theater today
to see "Finding Neverland."

11 comments:

  1. Katie is great! I was excited to see her post this morning too. Have a great weekend, Ramona!

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  2. Enjoy your play today! I have not yet read the TWT post, but it is in my plans for today. Thanks for the heads-up on it.

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  3. It always intrigues me how one link leads me down a path of learning. Enjoy your time with your daughter that is a celebration!

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  4. Your books entice, Ramona. Oh, my list is very long! Have a great time at the theater!

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  5. Have a wonderful time and the theater, Ramona - and thanks for the peek at your reading life.

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  6. Oh, thank you for sharing that link! One of the many reasons I love the blogging community so much is that I'm always learning, and there's always so much creativity and inspiration to discover!

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  7. Your celebration includes time with others and meeting others - people enrich our lives.

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  8. The book titles look interesting, Ramona. Thanks for sharing Kate's post.

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  9. Books and people, and some theatre - my kind of list. I hope you enjoyed the theater evening.

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  10. Thanks for sharing the books and Kate's post. Love the bookends to your piece, Ramona: an independent bookstore with two good friends and a daughter-date at the theater. Such lovely times to celebrate.

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  11. Thank you for sharing the link to Katie's post. I'm off to read it. I love your images from the book store! Heaven!

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