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Summer Reading II: For the Love of Libraries
“With a library card and our library books, we can take our school anywhere.” ~ Maura Muller Wherever you go this summer (or winter!), making reading a part of your everyday activities can help your...
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Summer Reading III: Keeping Teen Readers Engaged & Connected
Wherever you go this summer (or winter!), making reading a part of your everyday activities can help your family stay connected, stimulated, and engaged. In Part I, we introduced some fun ways to...
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Plagiarism
I received this well written essay on plagiarism from one of my students. I asked her if I could share it on the Middle of the Meadow blog so that other students could read it. I’m so glad she gave me...
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Enchanted
It seems as though every library shelf or bookstore shelf I see in the youth section these days is a retelling of a fairy tale. I LOVE THEM! Maybe you’ve read Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine,...
View ArticleThe Great Depression and Children’s Literature
In the 1930s an economic depression took hold of the world. It started in the United States, but soon spread throughout the world. Those of you using the 7th grade social studies with Oak Meadow study...
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Summertime and the Listening is Easy!
SYNC is once again offering free downloadable books for teens! SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+ The 2016 season is May 5th – August 17th 2016. SYNC 2016 will give away 30 titles –...
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Dig It!
Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are heading into summer and many are looking forward to growing vegetables in their own gardens. In my state we have a Cooperative Extension Service that provides...
View ArticleSummertime Challenge!
A Summer Challenge! (For my Northern Hemisphere Friends!) When I was in kindergarten, my school had one requirement in order to move on to first grade. Each child had to memorize ten nursery rhymes...
View ArticleNew MLA Guidelines for Citing Sources
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann” The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but...
View ArticleAn Oak Meadow Homeroom!
If you are enrolled in the Oak Meadow 7th or 8th grade and you have an Oak Meadow email address, you can join the Oak Meadow Homeroom Group. A “homeroom” is a place where students in schools gather...
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Read for the fun of it!
“Teen Read Week™ is a national adolescent literacy initiative created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). It began in 1998 and is held annually in October the same week as Columbus...
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What’s In the News?
“Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai and India’s Kailash Satyarthi Win Nobel Peace Prize” “A Peek Inside The World’s First Carbon Neutral City” “Google’s Young Scientists Are Out To Change The World” These...
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Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Velociraptors, and Turkeys? HUH?
I’ve been thinking a lot about turkeys lately! If you are in the United States, you might be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. It is a celebration of thanks commemorating the first...
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Genre?
The Stonekeeper book #1 of the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi I was at the public library the other day when I overheard a librarian ask a student what genre she had to read for an assignment....
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Iditarod
Iditarod public domain photo The 2017 IDITAROD will start on March 4 in Alaska. If you haven’t yet heard of the Iditarod Race, let me tell you it is one very exciting 1,150 miles! Men and women race...
View ArticleWomen’s History Month
In the United States, March has been designated as Women’s History Month, and it can be a great time to spend time learning about important women who have made, and are making, contributions to our...
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Where’d Ya See That?
Photo credit: Lucy Enge(Oak Meadow Archives) Recently one of my students found it interesting to support her ideas about music by submitting some examples in YouTube videos that she found on the...
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