Sara Holbrook author/poet/educator
May 29, 2005
“Listen to the Mockingbird” is a song I remember singing in grade school forty years ago growing up in Michigan, not a mockingbird travel destination. Arriving at Kelly’s outside of Leesburg, VA on Friday night around 11:30 PM, I heard mockingbirds for the first time. They are loud – singing their brains out
May 25, 2005
flowers are for picking
May 25, 2005
Like a weekend at home with Stephanie and Scottie. Katie, their mom lent them to me for Friday night. We went swimming (indoors, it’s still in the 40s in OH), poked around in the garden and rode bikes. And did a little science experiment with leather and static electricity (see pic).
May 21, 2005
Truism: Leather sofas make your hair stand up.
May 19, 2005
This is a big, old school in Warren, OH scheduled for rennovation. It will be cool for the kids to get a new building, but the antique lover in me feels sad that it is going down. It is the kind of building that would withstand centuries. Even the concrete floors in the
May 19, 2005
Warren G. Harding High School
May 13, 2005
This is a healthy, well-planned conference on the green, rolling campus of Bloomsburg State University. Lots of selections for teachers of kids of all ages.
Separate from my two presentations, I had three extensive conversations with teachers — all on the topic of assessment and guided writing. (is there such
May 12, 2005
Big smiles at Sunbeam School, Cleveland, OH
May 12, 2005
The first thing you notice about Sunbeam is how friendly everyone is. Not that other schools are unfriendly, it’s just that EVERYONE makes an effort to shake hands and say “hi.” With 2 of the four classes I talked to we wrote poems, What’s So Big About Sunbeam School, where I found out the
May 12, 2005
What’s so big about Bay Village? Looks like it’s the ice cream shop, the lake, the city pool, soccer and Normandy School and dozens of other places. Students at Normandy made individual pictures of what they think is big about their own town after reading What’s So Big About Cleveland. Their illustrations