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Thomas Ward has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins.

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Two Points: This is MY method, and not necessarily right for you, your teaching or care philosophy, your set-up, or your students. Curriculum participation by my students is VOLUNTARY. I invite them to participate, but if they choose not to, then that is fine. I usually offer them a choice of a few of the activities and let them decide where we start and where we go. An engaged child learns, a dis-engaged child rebels. The 3-year rotating curriculum is theme based. Some times we stick to the plan, but usually I observe what they are interested in learning about, what they are asking questions about, and suggest up to three different themes they can choose from for us to study. I make my own 3-year rotating curriculum for many reasons: Packaged curriculum is often only one year. Since I teach for 3 years, this would be redundant. Most packaged curriculum focuses on skills my students master early. My 2s count to 20, know 11 colors, know most of their phonics, uppercase and lowercase letters, 10 shapes and some of their numbers and I still have 3 years of curriculum to teach them. They often are worksheet intensive. My students usually are cognitively advanced from their fine motor skills. I have 4 year olds that still can't write well. If I had relied on worksheets for the last 2 years, there is no way they would have the skill sets they have. Worksheets are also not considered Developmentally Appropriate Practice [DAP] for children under the age of 8. We use them here for writing practice starting at age 4. [Yes, worksheet-intensive public schools are not using DAP for kindy through 3rd grade!] They can be expensive. If you are purchasing worksheets, why would you spend even $1 a week/$52 a year when you can purchase a 400 page Scholastic preschool workbook from Sam's Club for $8 that covers probably more material, is most likely aligned with the public school expectations, and is colorful. Colored copies are NOT affordable to make from packaged curriculum. Most [ALL!] preschool learning should be interactive. Pinterest is a better source for ideas. My students change every time I do a theme. I have to be able to tweak it to the interests and capabilities of those currently in my care. Plus, I'll find more interesting activities on Pinterest, have an idea for a new game, etc. It's a constant evolution to keep my curriculum relevant to our current group, situation and resources. However, curriculum planning and creation is very time consuming. Even with older curriculum I spend several hours going over it prior to teaching - updating, creating new materials, purchasing and setting new classroom decorations. While I have had my 3 year curriculum, this year I found myself wanting a more specific schedule to focus on specific skill sets for this particular group of children. Most of these skills can be incorporated into our themed curriculum, or they take 5 minute sessions to pop into our day. I have two groups, the younger preschoolers are 2-3 years old and the older ones are 4-5 years old, all at the same developmental and skill set level within their group. This makes it easier, as I can tailor everything to just 2 groups. If I were to have additional levels of children, then it would be tailored to each level. Children here are taught at their developmental level, not age. Asychronastic development is normal, so I may be teaching a child at various levels depending upon the subject matter. For the younger preschoolers, I came up with this structure. For the older pre-k students, I came up with this one. For instance, both of them have Measurement & Comparison on Friday for Reasoning. However, for the younger students, this would be a more/less, longer/shorter, big/little, etc. activity, while the older students would be measuring with rulers, yardsticks, tape measures, measuring cups, unit blocks, foot steps or themed units, and graphing the measurements to compare. Same skill set, differentiated at vastly different levels. Even this needs conditional tweaking. All the pre-k's know how to spell their last names now, so that is no longer a relevant skill activity for music and will be changed out. In another post I'll get into the curriculum components and the importance of each. For instance, how counting on Friday teaches 1-to-1 correspondence and creating method processes for counting groups of objects. CLICK PICTURES TO VIEW LARGER I use this MS Word template, available for FREE on TPT, for curriculum planning. Often, the daily skill sets above are either already incorporated, or can easily be incorporated, into the theme planning. For an example of a completed curriculum unit, check out our Owls Theme. Each monthly theme is broken down into 4 sub-themes. For instance: SPACE Astronauts & Rockets The Universe Our Solar System Aliens & Robots We also have a musical component, often classical, and an art component, often a master, and Spanish vocabulary component that we incorporate. This planning form may not include all games, file folder games, manipulatives, room-set up, etc. that I utilize. For those of you trained in curriculum creation, I do NOT do a full curriculum development for each activity. With having these children usually from infant to school-age, I keep an internal evaluation of progression and plan out only weekly learning objectives. Since I am creating the activities for my personal use, I do not need to create written procedures and evaluations. My curriculum is stored currently in file folders in a large office bookcase unit. I would like to get it into boxes so that I could have EVERY theme-related item, including dress-up, room set-up, manipulatives, etc. together for an easy pull. File boxes will most likely be the easiest, but they do take up a lot of space. In each file some of the things I probably have: Completed planning sheets All the books I own for that theme Flannel board Sentence and word walls File folder games Samples of previous crafts DVDs CDs Coloring pages Mini-book(s) Build-a-[theme item] game Curriculum creation is one of my great joys. I love the research and compilation, the creativity and excitement of bringing something fun and educational to my students. Learning is rarely linear. Children take developmental leaps, sometimes in odd directions. As a teacher, it is important that I keep each one challenged without pushing or inhibiting their growth, and that takes constant evaluation and a good eye for when those leaps happen so that we can move on to a higher level of instruction. When we do an activity, I constantly question if they WANT to do another round, another activity, and I usually cut them off while they are still engaged. I want them wanting more, and they will usually ask if they can continue. One of the most important desires and abilities I can instill in them is that of self-directed learning. So as they choose to go off with their rulers after we've spent several minutes doing a measuring activity, conferring between themselves as to procedures and what to measure next, I step back and let them. They know I am here as a resource, rather than an intrusive director. It is my job to ensure that when I invite my students to learn, they glow with excitement and anticipation of a fun, interactive, playful time. The results, so far, have been astounding. A few of my complete curriculum units are available through my TPT store. Apples Dental Ice Cream Penguins Rainbows St. Patrick's Day Valentine's Follow Connie -'s board Classroom on Pinterest. Tags: preschool, child care, pre-k, curriculum, development, teaching, education, homeschooling, homeschool, home, school, preschool curriculum development, planning

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Help our Octonauts explore, rescue and protect the undersea creatures with these great Octonauts Coloring Pages. Hop on board with Captain Barnacles, Professor Inkles, Lt. Kwazii, Dr. Shellington, Tweak, Sauci and Peso. We have some wonderful sea adventures to color. Octonauts to your stations for a wonderful undersea adventure! Octonauts Coloring Pages

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Ed. Fábrica 231, 2015 - 416 páginas: O que levaria alguém a golpear outra pessoa na cabeça e, na sequência, esfaqueá-la 77 vezes? O garoto de programa Daniel Graydon jamais imaginaria que encontraria tamanha perversão nos clientes com quem saía. Mas viu seu fim se aproximar ao ir contra sua regra de ouro: nunca levar os homens para casa. Seu parceiro sexual e algoz, porém, tinha algo de sedutor e era difícil recusar a proposta de uma noite regada a sexo, e muito bem paga. Daniel tornara-se apenas uma das vítimas de um personagem sombrio, cuja pulsão pela morte o levava a matar com regularidade e método. Cada morte representando um passo adiante no aperfeiçoamento da macabra arte de tirar vidas: cruel, dolorosa, limpa e sem pistas. Um desafio para a polícia de Londres e sua divisão de Crimes Graves do Grupo Sul, liderada pelo atormentado detetive-investigador Sean Corrigan. Onde comprar: Submarino, Saraiva, Travessa, Cultura Como bom amante de um thriller policial, foi fácil escolher esse livro entre as opções para resenha. Assim que bati os olhos nele, a capa, as frases de impacto impressas nela e na contracapa, e a sinopse, acabaram me convencendo por sua escolha. Como já diz na sinopse, podemos ver que não há nada de novo nessa trama. Segue aquele padrão do gênero: Duas mentes brilhantes (assassino x detetive), “digladiando” para saber quem é o mais esperto e vence ao final da jornada. E, por ter essa essência clichê, podemos ver muitas ouras características típicas de um bom thriller: Cenas descritas com riquezas de detalhes (principalmente as dos assassinatos); Todas as etapas de um trabalho investigativo bem definidas; Corrida contra o tempo para prender o assassino; E umas boas pitadas da vida pessoal do Sean, o detetive principal responsável por essa força tarefa. A Estrutura narrativa é bastante interessante, pois temos duas formas de narração: Uma é em terceira pessoa, acompanhando a perspectiva dos detetives envolvidos na investigação, Sally, Donnovan e Sean (sendo esse último responsável por aproximadamente 90% dessa parte), e narração em primeira pessoa, narrada completamente pelo serial killer. Mas, como nem tudo são flores, duas coisas me incomodaram bastante durante a leitura. Vamos a elas: A primeira diz respeito a “facilidade” com a qual os detetives fizeram as ligações entre os assassinatos. Explicando melhor: Cada morte foi realizada de uma forma diferente da outra (facada, enforcamento, etc.), aparentemente não se observava uma ligação entre elas, a não ser pela violência adotada, e pela total falta de provas nas cenas dos crimes. Então, para mim, ficou um pouco difícil de engolir a “intuição” dos detetives ao liga-los. Em meio a uma pilha de arquivos de assassinatos brutais, bateram os olhos em um deles, e logo trataram de fazer a conexão entre eles. Vamos combinar, sabemos muito bem que serial killer, geralmente, segue um padrão determinado por ele, seja na escolha do tipo de vítima, a forma com a qual ele mata, ou até a região a qual atua. Nesse caso, cada morte tinha um método/tipo de vítima/região completamente diferente do outro. A segunda coisa que me incomodou foi o tamanho de alguns capítulos. Acho que, para livros desse gênero, capítulos entre 15 ou 20 páginas são de bom tamanho, mas, capítulos com aproximadamente 50 páginas (um chegou a ter 64), são excessivamente grandes. Em alguns momentos, fiquei com a sensação de que a trama não evoluía. Não sei dizer se foi porque a narrativa dava uma esfriada mesmo, ou se era porque, por mais que lesse, o capítulo não terminava. Voltando a falar das qualidades, achei que a grande sacada do autor foi o motivo ao qual o serial matava suas vítimas. Sei que muitos leitores poderão não concordar comigo, pois sempre tendem a tecer respostas mirabolantes para explicar uma mente doentia, mas achei que o autor acertou ao não recorrer a teorias extravagantes, ou ate certo ponto clichês, para humanizar sua personagem. E, falando em humanizar personagens, também gostei de ver o autor dando um ar de normalidade a dois dos detetives da trama. Deixando claro que eles são incorruptíveis, mas também se utilizam de umas tramoiazinhas. (risos) Em relação a edição em si, gostei bastante do trabalho realizado pela Fábrica 231. A capa está muito bonita e a diagramação simples, mas bem-feita. Encontrei pouquíssimos erros de digitação, mas que não atrapalham em nada na leitura. Enfim, prós e contras apresentados, faço um balanço final dando quatro estrelas ao livro, e indicando a todas as pessoas que gostam de livros do gênero. http://www.skoob.com.br/brutal-434314ed492064.html Cortesia da Editora Rocco Pernambucano, formado em Artes Cênicas e apaixonado por teatro e livros. Descobriu-se leitor depois de um empurrãozinho de uma amiga. Virginiano, pé no chão e que adora a calmaria. Leitor de quase todos os gêneros literários. Afinal, quando a trama é boa, o gênero é o que menos importa. *Sua compra através dos links deste post geram comissão ao blog!

Less than a week before Ella’s birthday party, she told me that she thought we needed a craft. Normally, I would have had a moment of sheer panic, but since the party was already geared to be super low-key, I felt sure we could pull it together in the nick of time. I took to...Read More »

Matharu, Taran The Novice (The Summoner #1), 368 pages. Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan), 2015. $19. Language: PG (3 swears); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG-13 (lots of fighting). Fletcher has a raw deal. Abandoned as a brand new baby, he has spent his life working hard as a blacksmith’s apprentice because no one else in town would take him in; he is also the main target for the bullies in the small town. Then he discovers that he has the talent of summoning demons, a talent that is sorely needed in his country’s fight against their orc enemies. Fletcher is an orphan, hiever, which complicates manners considerably. And the magic of summoning used to only belong to the aristocrats, and they are not happy to now be sharing with commoners and bastards. Fletcher and others are needed so desperately, however, that they are being fast-tracked to the front lines – as soon as the final round robin testing, pitting them all against each other to see who will win the best assignments. Matharu has created a splendid new series for kids who enjoy Flanagan’s or Delaney’s series. I wish this first book had ended at a slightly different place, hoever, instead of at such an obvious “by the way this is a series, so stay tuned” point. MS, HS – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS.

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