Colleen Politano

P&M Press author Colleen Politano is the keynote speaker at the The Early Childhood Education Council of Manitoba SAG conference. Colleen’s session, Using Retelling Activities to Strengthen Comprehension and Memory, will provide innovative, practical, easy-to-use ideas for your classroom.  For more information, please visit the Manitoba Teachers’ Society website at www.mbteach.org.  Colleen’s engaging and helpful session will fill up quickly so register early. Download the registration information by clicking here.

Please join David Alexander Robertson, Scott B. Henderson, HighWater Press (an imprint of P&M Press), and McNally Robinson Booksellers for a book launch of Scars, and the pre-publication launch of  Ends/Begins. Scars and Ends/Begins are book 2 and book 3 in the four-part graphic novel series, 7 Generations.

David will begin speaking at 7:30 pm with a reception and book signing to follow.
Location: McNally Robinson (Grant Park)
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Scars

Ends/Begins

To download your invitation click on Scars Invitations.

Kindergarten Plus! author Joni Bowman relates that it is essential that you build an effective partnership between home and school. As educators, we want children to receive the critical message that both home and school value learning. Studies show that children perform better in school if their parents are involved in their child’s education. Keeping parents involved and informed can be accomplished using a number of strategies. In Kindergarten Plus!, Joni includes many creative ways, such as the Ziploc Take-Home activities, that further enhance your kindergarten program and provide an enjoyable learning link between home and school.

The 50 Ziplock Take-Home activities are designed to reinforce a variety of mathematics, literacy, and fine-motor skills introduced throughout the program. Download for free a sample of the Kindergarten Plus! Ziploc Take-Home activities by clicking on the pdf file, kziplock.

Edwin

“The graphic novel Stone starts with an emergency. A suicide letter is positioned over frames of a mother rushing through traffic, leaving a car door ajar with the cell phone open on the seat.”

Continue reading the entire review at The Sheaf. Click here.

P&M Press publishes three books by Hetty van Gurp. If you would like more information about these titles please visit www.pandmpress.com.

978-1-55379-228-4

By Author David Alexander Robertson and Illustrator Scott B. Henderson
For Grades 9–12

Scars introduces White Cloud, a young Plains Cree boy, in the year 1870, when the last great smallpox epidemic swept through the prairies. After witnessing, one by one, the death of his entire family from the illness, he summons the strength to journey on to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. But will he make it? Scars follows White Cloud and the people he encounters, as he struggles to survive against impossible odds.

The book also reconnects readers to Edwin, a lost young man on his own quest who was introduced in book 1, Stone. By learning about the bravery and perseverance of his ancestor White Cloud, Edwin summons his own courage and travels to confront the main source of his despair: the father he barely knows.

Scars is the second book in the graphic novel series, 7 Generations. Books in the series:

Book 1: Stone (published) introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future.

Book 3: Ends/Begins (forthcoming) features the story of Edwin’s father and his residential-school experience.

Book 4: The Pact (forthcoming) a story of redemption, as father and his son reconcile their past and begin a new journey.

To place an order, please call toll free at 1-800-667-9673 or order online at www.pandmpress.com.

Scars, book 2 of 4 in the graphic novel series 7 Generations
by David Alexander Robertson, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson

About the book

White Cloud

White Cloud, a young Plains Cree boy aged 10, witnesses the death of his entire family from smallpox, victims of the great epidemic of 1870-1871. Alone and terrified, White Cloud summons the strength to journey across the prairies to start a new life and keep alive the legacy of his people. His bravery and perseverance inspires Edwin, first introduced in Stone (Book 1), to make his own journey to confront the main source of his despair: the father he barely knows.

The 7 Generations series also includes:

Stone (published)

Ends/Begins (forthcoming)

The Pact (forthcoming)

Scars is scheduled to be available the end of July, 2010. If you would like to receive an email announcing when the book is available, email pr@pandmpress.com. Please write “send me information about Scars” in the subject line of your email.

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Stone

Recently appearing in Grassroots News is a great article featuring the graphic novel, Stone. Please click on the following link to read.

grassrootsnews_article_stone

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The catalog includes our new, bestselling, and upcoming titles. For more information on these titles or to view our entire book selection, visit www.pandmpress.com.

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by Barbara Law and Mary Eckes

The More-Than-Just-Surviving Handbook is filled with practical, effective strategies for settling a new ELL student into the classroom. One strategy is assigning a student-buddy to the newcomer. However, rather than arbitrarily assigning a buddy to help a newcomer and leaving the buddy undirected and to his or her own devices, it is wise to be more systematic. One school the authors are familiar with has instituted a carefully planned and executed buddy system that has seen great success. This system, as with most successful programs, has strong administrative support. It involves the careful selection and training of ELL buddies, as well as parental involvement and the use of contracts. Here are some tips for creating a successful buddy program.

Tip 1:
Only good students, who are patient, mature, tolerant of differences, and wise enough to know when to help and when to let the ELL students work on their own, are selected as student-buddies.

Tip 2:
A training workshop is given at the beginning of the year to sensitize all student-buddies to the challenges ELL students face and to help them learn ways to assist the newcomers. Parents of student-buddies are given a form to sign, giving permission for their children to be buddies.

Tip 3:
Buddies are matched with newcomers in their class and given a list of fun and friend-making things to do. Students sign contracts, which detail things they will do with the newcomer-buddies. Some suggestions include going to McDonald’s together, phoning their newcomer-buddies every day, inviting them home once a week.

Tip 4:
Special recognition is given to student-buddies for their services. There is a friendship picnic at the end of the year, and a “buddies poster” (photographs of each student-buddies with his/her newcomer friend) is displayed in a prominent place in the school.

This program makes everyone in the school aware that ELL students do not create problems that need to be overcome, but provide special opportunities for learning and friendship. Being appointed a student-buddy is seen as an honour. The program is a well-planned way to ease the transition for new students.

More information about The More-Than-Just Surviving Handbook is available at www.pandmpress.com