The BJU Press Summer Reading Program has begun! In celebration of its launch, we spoke with Nancy Lohr, acquisitions editor for JourneyForth, about the Summer Reading Program and topics related to reading. Nancy, an avid reader herself, has also worked as a classroom teacher and a children’s librarian in the past. Below is a portion […]
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Publishing Student Writing
Each time we do a writing project, we follow the five steps taught in BJU Press curriculum. The students plan, draft, revise, proofread, and finally publish. I really like these steps. Using them helps the students break the project down into bite-sized chunks that are much easier to swallow. The tasks seem more doable, and […]
Quite a Character
In chapter 8 of our English textbook, the students learn the writing process for writing a book report. We have done this in the past by having the children read different books and then write about them. But I struggled with this because I was not familiar with all the books they chose. I didn’t […]
Celebrate Spring!
I’m not a big fan of winter. There are some aspects that I enjoy—things like homemade soup and big mugs of hot chocolate. But I don’t enjoy activities such as having to bundle up to go outside to pick up my mail or having to shovel snow out of my driveway. I find myself looking […]
Let’s RRRRead!
For years our school used a reading program promoted by the community to encourage our students develop a love for reading. Although I really appreciate the program and support from the community, sometimes the stories or characters promoted by the program do not line up with a biblical worldview. So last year some of our […]
Literacy Centers (Part 3)
For the final literacy center of this cycle, I decided to go with English. We had been studying nouns in that subject, and part of that study included singular and plural nouns. I asked the students once again to use the Educreations app. First, they were to go around the room and take photos of […]
Literacy Centers (Part 1)
I have been researching ideas on how I can use the iPads® in my learning centers to promote literacy. There’s lots of potential, but I needed a little help finding a good solution. And then I came across this post by Beth Holland from EdTechTeacher Inc. I thought she had some great ideas about using […]