Kids will surely find Jen Stark’s colorful art exciting and inspiring. Have each student contribute one or a few, then glue them to a Styrofoam form to make a sweet little tree. Yarn pom-poms are easy to make and are also an excellent way to use up scraps of yarn. Finally, assemble them into a rainbow collage and frame the impressive results. Embellish your thumbprintsĪrt projects like this one are so cute and simple yet so impressive! Each child simply makes a thumbprint on a small piece of paper, then turns it into a face with black marker. These collaborative art projects work for kids, teens, and adults alike while providing results everyone can be proud of! 1. Some art ideas incorporate nature while others are messy enough to warrant a little outdoor time. Regardless of whether you are into painting, sculpture, doodling, or mosaics, there is truly something for everyone on this list. (Picture book.Art is about expressing your individuality, but you can also make something pretty incredible when people pool their talents. This is a gentle introduction to the fact that Native Americans are an important part of our history-and of our present. ….”A three-page author’s note about the Lenni Lenape is informative and useful. The traditions live, we adapt what sustained us then, sustains now.” ‹Doris Seale (Dakota, Cree, and Abenaki), poet, and editor/author of Through Indian Eyes and A Broken Flute. “Over and against the plethora of “multicultural” writing for young children, this is the one I would choose to show them our pre-conquest lives: the balance of life, the belonging to the land and to each other, and how, for the fortunate among us, it still is that way. Instead, we see both then and now side by side, deeply connected, flowing into each other.” ‹Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki storyteller and writer. it does not imbed a Native nation in the distant past. “Both text and pictures invite you in, not as a stranger viewing a different culture, but a welcome guest…. The language is crystalline, pure and sparkling, nothing wasted nothing more needed.” ‹ Karen Cody Cooper (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Museum Training Coordinator, National Museum of the American Indian. “The book captures so much that is Native: cycles, the particular roles and joys of people of different ages, plants and animals as integral parts of life, the richness of lives lived simply, and our connection to the past, and thus to the future. Then and now are not so very different when the shadbush blooms. Told by Traditional Sister and Contemporary Sister, each from her own time, this is a book about tradition and about change. Through the cycle of the seasons, what is important has remained: being with family, knowing when berries are ripe for picking, listening to stories in a warm home. Recommended to teachers by the National Museum of the American Indian, Spring 2008 Education E-Newsletter Recommended on National Public Radio’s “Tell Me More” November 2007 Featured in Kirkus Reviews’ BEA/ALA Big Book Guide 2007.Įxcerpts- “My grandparent’s grandparents walked beside the same stream where I walk with my brother, and we can see what they saw.” Today when a Lenape Indian girl ventures to the stream to fish for shad, she knows that another girl did the same generations before. We have won the CCBC Choice 2008, Children’s Cooperative Book Center Award & 2008 Notable Children’s Book in the Language Arts. It chooses the best 600 books, both fiction and nonfiction, which it lists according to age and category. National Children’s Choice Book Award Finalist!When the Shadbush Blooms has been named to this year’s list of Best Children’s Books by the Bank Street College Children’s Book Committee! The Committee reviews over 4000 titles each year for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. The winners are featured in the summer issue and also on 5/15/08 Reading books is another way to explore cultures, places and even other time periods. The selection promotes cooperation, nonviolence, respect for differing viewpoints and close relationships in human societies. Together, they encourage an understanding of the world’s diverse cultures, as well as nature and ecological richness. We have won the 15th Annual Skipping Stones Honor Awards! The Skipping Stones Honor Awards recognize 26 exceptional books and teaching resources. Look for the Shadbush Activity Page and the Children’s Page and for the book reviews page. Yard’s office from When the Shadbush Blooms, 4/ 2015.You will find awards, what people said, excerpts and artwork on this page. Nancy Yard Holland Township School District & Carla with mural in Dr.
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