Eagle Eyes

Ahoy, me Mateys. This be Mad Jenny Flint here for Mrs. G. – who is taking a long walk off a short plank …Aaargh! Today be the day of days, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day. If you be needin’ a break from the heartless ISTEP … visit Stuff for Junior Pirates. Nursery Rhyme with Pirattitude [with thanks to Talk Like a Pirate Day Classroom].Before:Little Miss MuffetSat on a tuffetEating her curds and wheyAlong came a spiderWho sat down beside herAnd frightened Miss Muffet awayWith Pirattitude: A proud beauty, Little Miss MuffetEmbarked with her matey on her tuffetMaking lubbers eat her foul curds and whey.Arrr!Avast! Along came a behemoth bilge ratWho smartly sat at her starboard sternAnd scared Miss Muffet all the way to the depths of Davey Jones’ Locker. Arrr!

Tags: humor, ISTEP, pirates

Madeleine L’Engle died last Thursday at the age of 88. She was probably best known for her book A Wrinkle in Time, part of the Time Quartet Series and winner of the 1963 John Newbery Medal. Madeleine L’Engle is remembered not only for the children’s classics that she wrote, but also for her poetry, plays and books on prayer. Madeleine L’Engle herself described why she wrote: ”Why does anybody tell a story?” she once asked, even though she knew the answer.”It does indeed have something to do with faith,” she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.” She will be missed. 

Tags: Authors, Newbery, obit