Author School Visit
Happy Birthday “Princess Shayna”: My Children’s Book That Teaches, Kindness, Understanding, and Respect!
Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift On this coming Friday, February 2/2/24, Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift will be 27 years of age. The fictional princess and I were born the the “second day of the second month of the new year”. My Family Fairy Tale is a chapter book that children can color in the…
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Join an Exciting Global Education Chat for Students, Teachers and Parents – Building and Keeping Virtual Relationships!
GlobalEdSsChat My Orange Brain is excited to be a guest panelist for the GlobalEdSsChat for December 2020. The Topic will be: Building and Keeping Virtual Relationships. My friend and colleague, Leigh Cassel, who is the founder of the Digital Human Library, asked me to share my Brain Color concepts with the students. Chat questions The…
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Students Love Learning and Sharing their Personality Discoveries!
Last Friday, I enjoyed a color-filled Princess Shayna Author Visit with a group of 3rd graders, who read my Brain Color fairy tale this past semester for their enrichment program. My friend Laura Newcomer, who is an Instructional Coach, and her colleague Kim Miller, who is the Information Literacy & Enrichment Teacher, arranged a grand…
Read morePrincess Shayna Celebration and 7th Author School Visit with 5th Grade Enrichment Students
On March 12th, I enjoyed my 7th visit and final Author School Visit with Laura Newcomer’s 5th grade Enrichment Class for our Princes Shayna Celebration Class. The children’ played Princess Shayna Bingo with Bingo cards that included the fairytale characters’ names, villages, and Brain Colors. The students also enjoyed selecting prizes from a large gift…
Read moreEditing Skills, Q & A Time, and Princess Shayna Book Questionnaire with Enrichment Class Students During 6th Author School Visit
Today, I enjoyed my 6th Author School Visit with Laura Newcomer’s 5th Grade Enrichment Students at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elementary School. My Orange Brain was not surprised when Max immediately showed me another example of his Green Brain Editing of Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift . Max had written his edit on a piece of paper showing…
Read more5th Grade Enrichment Student’s Share Their Praiseworthy Gifts, Book Edits, and “Surprise” Birthday Cards during my 4th Author School Visit
WOW! I was speechless, which is extremely unusual for a Blue Brainer, when I walked into the library at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elementary School for my 4th Author School Visit with Laura Newcomer’s 5th Grade Enrichment Students. Each student had created a colorful birthday card for my 69th birthday and for the 17th birthday publishing…
Read more5th Grade Enrichment Student’s Discover their “Praiseworthy Gifts” during my 3rd Author School Visit
Last Friday, January 24th, I enjoyed my 3rd Author School Visit to the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elementary School in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. I was looking forward to working Laura Newcomer’s 5th grade Skills Block (Enrichment) class because they have read the first third of my children’s Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift for their novel/book study…
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