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Tag Archives: my rows and piles of coins
Northern and southern seasons.
For our final day with My Rows and Piles of Coins, I asked Alex how she would explain an illustration in which Saruni is engulfed in a man’s overcoat handed down by his father “for these chilly July days.” July … Continue reading
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Reading, writing, and literary analysis.
We didn’t do a whole lot with our Five in a Row study today, because both kids were in studies at the Johns Hopkins Lab for Child Development, and that took a big chunk of our morning. (Alex got a … Continue reading
Playing with coins.
Every morning I make a list for Alex of what we’re going to do that day. (It helps make transitions much smoother when I can appeal to the impersonal authority of the whiteboard.) This morning as I wrote the list … Continue reading
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My Rows and Piles of Coins.
This week we’re studying one of the books I chose to expand Five in a Row to the southern hemisphere. My Rows and Piles of Coins is a lovely book set in 1960s-era Tanzania. Saruni saves the coins his mother … Continue reading
