CALLING ALL TEACHERS & LIBRARIANS!

I’m so happy that many of you have told me you are using my books in your classrooms... email me your lesson plans and project ideas and I will post them here on my web site.  If you would like your name, grade and school posted, please send that, along with a lo-res jpeg of you and your classroom, student projects, bulletin board, etc.

From Mrs. Rose Strohmaier, Fifth Grade Teacher, High Bridge Elementary School

Directions: Choose several sentences from I Love The Night by Dar Hosta.  Have the children imitate the sentence structure to write their own sentences.

BOOK SENTENCE:  It was a perfectly perfect time for becoming still and quiet, for making up a good dream and for floating off to sleep.

IMITATED SENTENCE: It was a wonderful time for becoming happy and glad, for playing hide and go seek, and for drifting off on a puffy cloud.

Directions: Imitate the unique juxtaposition of the same word in both adverb and adjective form that is used in sentences from I Love The Night by Dar Hosta.  Have the children use this technique in their own sentences.

Use this Adverbing-An-Adjective.pdf to do this activity with your students!

From Butler Elementary School, Chalfont, PA

Directions: During a study of Dar Hosta’s books, celebrate alliteration by having your students invent alliterative classroom jobs!

EXAMPLES:

“The Brilliant Blackboard Brigade” ~ Blackboard Cleaners

“The Wonderful Weather Watchers” ~ Weather Report

“The Awesome Attendance Advisors” ~ Attendance