After reading The Terrible Two Get Worse, the second in the series by authors Jory John and Mac Barnett with their signature witty and whimsical illustrations, I offered The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm…
Month: April 2021
Braces & Burlington with Mom
I covered the last two class periods of the day for my friend and colleague a couple of weeks ago. She needed to take her teen daughter to the orthodontist, a little over an hour…
New Kid
I was so excited to take a deep dive into middle grade literature as I prepared for my new teaching role at NCS. Jerry Craft’s graphic novel, New Kid, won both the Newbery Medal and…
Letter to the Letter O
One of the better writing prompts Adirondack Center for Writing released during the pandemic was “write a letter to your favorite letter”; my mother-in-law responded with a sweet and funny ode to the letter E.…
Chirp
People who climb all 46 High Peaks – mountains over 4,000 feet – in the Adirondacks are called 46ers. While we do a fair amount of hiking at North Country School, we also do a…