The Life and Times of a Fourth Grade Class at the Dalton School in New York City
On Tuesday after school the Dalton School will be celebrating Ashley Bryan. A former teacher at Dalton, Ashley is a remarkable artist, writer, performer, and person. Our party tomorrow is to celebrate the publication of Ashley’s autobiography, Words to My Life Song. And to honor him, at today’s Literary Salon, Edinger House did a reading of one of his most beautiful books, Beautiful Blackbird.
So give a listen!
Today for Literary Salon we did a class reading of Eve Bunting’s picture book, How Many Days to America? We had hoped to do this with our third grade buddies, but we weren’t able to coordinate our schedules. So instead we did a podcast for them. We hope they listen to it and them perhaps will do one for us! Then we can listen to theirs while looking at the whole book. It is a perfect book to read right before Thanksgiving, especially when studying immigration. Here is our podcast:
SH reads from Stuart Little: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download AP reads from Stuart Little: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download AR reads from Stuart Little: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download DW reads from Stuart Little: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download VSF reads from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download HF reads from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download ZT reads from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download SP reads from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAll from Trumpet of the Swan.
JL reading from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Another JL reading from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download NL reading from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download PM reading from Trumpet of the Swan: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAnd here are the other two!
The Dark Hills Divide Poem: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Edge Chronicles: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadToday seven members of Edinger House prepared readings for our Literary Salon. And here are five are for you to listen and enjoy (and the other two are in the next post)!
Inkheart: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download I Am Apache: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Dragonrider: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Whirlwind: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadLast week’s Literary Salon featured Edinger House students performing excerpts from the wonderful monologues and dialogues of Laura Amy Schlitz’s Newbery Award winner, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!. Just click on the links below to read the student posts where you will learn more and be able to listen to their excellent readings. Enjoy! (And for anyone wanting more, I have also written a post about this experience at my blog, “In the Classroom: Kid Podcasts of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!.”)
TAGGOT, the blacksmith’s daughter
JACOB BEN SALOMON, the moneylender’s son and PETRONELLA, the merchant’s daughter
PIERS, the glassblower’s apprentice
MARIOT and MAUD, the glassblower’s daughters
Today you are going to learn how to upload audio file to your post.
The first thing to do is to give your audience some information about what they will be hearing. In this case you should write a good paragraph explaining why we did this (hint — your teacher chose the book for a very special reason:), your particular monologue and why you chose it, how dressed for it (if you did), and so on. And be sure to give the title of the book and the author. You might also want to put an image of the book cover on your post. (I’m not going to go over how to do that — there is a place for you to get that information if you need it. Hint: the first letter is “F”.) Here’s a link to the amazon.com page about the book to help you.
The second thing to do is to upload the file. Go to the end of the Blogs FAQ where you will find directions answering the question, “ How do I upload an audio file (podcast) to a post?”
Here’s the podcast for yesterday’s Literary Salon: