The Teacher Toolbox

Whilst I’m not with Gary Stager on Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future being the worst book written in the 21st C, I was distinctly underwhelmed by it to say the least.

That said, it is now time to set Pink free to roam the planet and have people take from him what they will.

What I envisage is:

- you read the book and add your thoughts to the comment section of this post being sure to let me know where the book is located at the moment
- you write your first name, the date & your location somewhere in the book
- you throw it out to your Personal Learning Network, ‘Who would like to read Pink?’
- you send the book to the first cap off the rank but let them know they can’t hang onto it for more than a month
- they then repeat the process.

Let’s see where Daniel Pink ends up or how many times he is sent on before someone steals him

cheers

Adrian

FYI IMHO – The honour of worst book I’ve read in the 21C goes to Zombie Bums from Uranus by Andy Griffith. hehehehehe

Today when I was sorting through some photos and this one brought a smile.

A few months ago when I was doing the washing up Miss Emily was on the floor behind me and then the next moment she was gone. My heart was in my mouth for just a second. I called to her and she replied with this gem. I’ve recorded her words using the PC version of Comic Life.

The book she was in love with at the time was Looking for Crabs. We now MUST look for crabs every time we go to the beach.

Here are some of her more recent favourites.

In Australia books are rather expensive e.g for me to buy my son a paperback copy of Rowan of Rin for his birthday it will cost c.$14 US here, yet through Amazon it only costs $5.99 + postage. Needless to say I do a bit of shopping through Amazon

In the last couple of years I’ve added an Amazon Wishlist to my site. In that time I’ve probably received one ‘wish’ in return for every 500 000 educational resources I give away.

Today was another one of those nice moments when a delivery truck pulled up and I had to sign for an Amazon parcel. Sue B in the UK gifted me this woodwork book for all the resources she uses with her students.

The message read, “To Adrian, I think your resources are amazing. Thank you so much. Sue B, Arleseey, UK.’

So Sue, just to let you know that this book is going in the cupboard until my son’s birthday on March 28th. He is going through a phase where he loves to build stuff with wood. Thank you soooo much for your generosity. It is truly appreciated!
Cheers

Adrian

Here is a book report exercise that utilises drama and play building big time as a learning strategy. Essentially two pretentious people review a book that the class might like to read. The book review has many challenges that expand the children’s awareness of vocabulary so make sure you have some dictionaries and thesauruses on hand

Discuss ‘rising to a challenge’ and enjoy the task.

Adrian
http://www.adrianbruce.com

Oh… and just for the blog readers… as an added challenge you might like to add the line, ‘ must include something clever in the use of language that will cause an adult to laugh’.