Sophie and Sadie's Scholarly Site

It's International Blog Hopping Day, and I haven't blogged or  hopped anywhere really. However,  I have been making some new graphics and art for school and experimenting with my Flip video by adding effects from befunky.com. I've spent most of a sometimes dreary day creating collages with objects that I have photographed, and I've become inspired enough to realize that this would be a great activity for the kids to get to know me and make some inferences  about me based on what I include in my collage. Sometimes the right amount of coffee just helps things CLICK!

I'm keeping up with my professional reading for the summer, I  also started reading Igniting A Passion for Reading by Steven Layne, and it has already moved me as much The Book Whisperer did two years ago. I'm not trying to sound like something from a nursery rhyme calling "The sky is falling!" about the lack of reading that goes on with both adults and children, but we are in the midst of a crisis,  folks, and I guess I'm glad to see that there are some folks who have a plan on getting us out of the mess we are in. When Layne shuddered about what may happen if we continue to get our news "from other sources," I nearly cheered because I also think it is scary that some ADULTS never read any news but rely on word of mouth from a talking head on TV. I don't want this for the kids I teach. I am going to enjoy reading this book.

Because it is a day to blog and hop, I will share some of the A+ Blogs over at Teaching Blog Addict. I will make it easy and share a link:
Teaching Blog Addict: A-Plus Blogs

Enjoy!