Gems of Art and the Section 5 Project
Campfire Tip #7: Encourage Creativity If you give a mouse a cookie, he’ll want some syrup to go with it—but if you give a girl an octopus book and some thread, she just might make the most gorgeous pillow you’ve…
Print Shop for Elementary and Middle School
Campfire Tip #6: Offer Independent Writing Skills Practice Print Shop is a Blackbird & Company New Year Resolution! Print Shop downloads offers an awesome opportunity to set your students into independent writing activities. We are building a collection of downloadable…
Print Shop for Primary
Campfire Tip #5: Inspire Independence Print Shop is a Blackbird & Company New Year Resolution! So what is Print Shop for Primary? It’s an awesome collection of downloadable Discovery activities designed to engage students, Kindergarten through 2nd grade, in focused,…
Blasting-off an IDEA
Tip #4 IDEAS Motivate Writers Writing is an art form achieved via a series of steps: 1) It all begins with an IDEA. Without an idea, the writer will simply stare at the blank page. 2) Once there is an…
Why We Publish Student Work
Campfire Tip #3: Writing is a Gift Hopefully you’ve heard about Reveal by now, Blackbird & Company’s annual anthology of student work. But do you know why Reveal is so important? Why we talk about it every chance we get? It…
Revealing a Giveaway
Campfire Giveaway What would make our annual virtual campfire gathering even more wonderful? An actual campfire, of course! Enlist your students to choose a favorite polished draft from this year’s work from Blackbird & Company curriculum, submit the work to…
New Year / New View
Campfire Tip #2: Be on the lookout for wonder! When my oldest son was a toddler, I watched him make his way toward our back yard fence toward a knothole. I watched to see what he would do. Funny thing,…
Editing Student Writing
Campfire Tip #1: Empower Students to SELF-Edit We’ve got you! Head over to Print Shop to download for FREE our student self-editing checklists—Writer’s ChecklistLevel 1, Writer’s Checklist Level 2, and Writer’s Checklist Level 3. These resources are designed for use…
Welcome to the Campfire
It’s that time of year again. A new year is dawning and the long stretch of educating looms ahead! I love that word “loom” because it is a very specific verb. Of course, the noun is a machine for weaving, but…
Join a Pages Online Class this Winter
“So many things have gone out of date. But after all these years, words are still important. Words are still needed by everyone. Words are still needed to think with, to write with, to dream with, to hope and pray…