Speech with Lisa

Hello!! Happy New Year! It's been way too long since I've updated this blog, so let's get caught up! I hope your holidays were splendid and that 2008 is treating you well. And I hope you've started off the year with a great book! Here are a few titles I've read and LOVEd this year: The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Marie Pope A great fairy tale with an interesting twist at the end. Helps you want to delve into the history of Elizabethan England as well. Cheaper by the Dozen Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey This book made me laugh out loud more than once. Tells about life in a family with 12 children in the 1920's. Times haven't changed as much as one might think. Guys Write for Guys Read Multiple Authors, edited by John Sciezka This book has also made me laugh out loud, even, perhaps, to guffaw. If you've ever been a boy or wondered how boys think, this is the book for you. It tells some delightful tales of boyhood many of which ...

Here are some words that we liked from 'Island of the Blue Dolphins:' league = 3 miles canyon = a deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it. omen=it meansa sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"

chiste! chistoso!! Humor is a great way to work on language skills! For example, here is a joke: What's black and white and read all over? A newspaper! This is funny because the word 'read' has different meanings, depending on how it is spelled. Do you know any good jokes with word play? Post them here!!!!

Synonyms are words that mean the same thing. Can you think of synonyms for the following words? little smart strange above gift rich below annoy correct scared hare ill repair sleepy tidy skinny giggle simple

How was your summer? I can't wait to hear. Mine was great! I went camping and hiking, helped at my sister's wedding, visited Southland and Altara Elementaries in Utah and PS 154 in Harlem (other schools where I have worked), helped a friend make a movie, and spent some time at the beach! Here I am, hiking near Pawling, NY, at Camp Liahona. Have you ever been camping? What was your favorite part about it? (I liked canoeing, building fires, cooking, swimming, and sleeping in a tent!) This is an island near Santa Barbara, CA, where the characters in the book 'Island of the Blue Dolphins' lived! I was excited to find it, and decided I need to re-read the book this year. Have you ever read 'Island of the Blue Dolphins?' I'd love to know what you thought.

Hi there friends, It's summertime! I hope you are having a great one! Get some rest, enjoy family and friends, AND improve your speech and language skills by: playing sports or scrapbooking (sports are great for social skills and scrapbooking is fabulous for improving memory and recall...), re-connecting with old friends, reading a good book, or two, or three!! So far this summer I've been reading Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, and of course, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling!!!!!!! What books (or plays) have you been reading this summer?

We had our first letters from Robert Munsch!! He sent some great behind-the-scenes stories about the writing of 'Paper Bag Princess' as well as an UNPUBLISHED story just for us!!!!!! We learned that Robert Munsch likes to write down the stories he tells children, often after he has told the stories aloud many times. Sometimes he changes the endings depending on the feedback he gets!