6Traits Digest #165 - Saturday, March 25, 2000

  Langston Hughes
          by "Barbara D. Martin" 
  Re: 6Traits- Langston Hughes
          by "sandra Doughman" 
  Re: Kid Pix
          by 


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Subject: Langston Hughes
From: "Barbara D. Martin" 
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:00:48 -0800

Dear Susan,
    Thanks so much for sharing the poetry sites on Langston Hughes.  He
is an author I have long loved, and on Thursday when I took my class to
the library I noticed one of his books had only been checked out 4 times
in the last 8 years.  I checked it out, then instead of giving my
students  the SSR time they usually get after going to the library I
leafed through the book and read some of his poems.  I then put his book
up for classroom check out, and there's a waiting list!  I am so pleased
with my student's response to poetry this year!  The sites will be
posted for our next visit to the computer lab.
    Thanks again!!!
Barbara


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Subject: Re: 6Traits- Langston Hughes
From: "sandra Doughman" 
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 17:21:07 -0500

When I checked out this site, I also found that there are GREAT plans for
numerous famous people - bt going back to the home page.  You might want =
to
check it out!!

THANKS SUSAN!

Sandy/4/FL
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From: "Barbara D. Martin" 
To: "SixTraitsMailring" <6Traits@>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:00 AM
Subject: 6Traits- Langston Hughes


> Dear Susan,
>     Thanks so much for sharing the poetry sites on Langston Hughes.  He
> is an author I have long loved, and on Thursday when I took my class to
> the library I noticed one of his books had only been checked out 4 times
> in the last 8 years.  I checked it out, then instead of giving my
> students  the SSR time they usually get after going to the library I
> leafed through the book and read some of his poems.  I then put his book
> up for classroom check out, and there's a waiting list!  I am so pleased
> with my student's response to poetry this year!  The sites will be
> posted for our next visit to the computer lab.
>     Thanks again!!!
> Barbara
>
>
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Subject: Re: Kid Pix
From: 
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:30:40 EST

Hi clatour.  
    This is simple, however, so it goes.
    My kids liked it.
    We used Kid Pix to create a visual presentation of the rock cycle.  It =

was a "test" and the kids had fun as well. I gave them a spec sheet on the =

overhead to follow.  
    We make blank books into class books using the illustrative abilities =
of 
kid pix. We made, for example, a dictionary of "Neologisms."  We had had a =

spelling list of words made from Greek roots (e.g., sub-,  meter- etc.) =
and 
we created our own new words using a big list of Greek roots.  We did the 
correct dictionary format including a sample sentence, and we did an 
illustration using the graphics of kid pix.
      Great program, particularly as it gets revised and updated.  There =
are 
many more uses than the "blow it up" and erase a picture aspects.
Have  fun, Ann

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