Owl Ninja

Week 3 of the Student Blogging Challenge is  free choice and Week 4 is “About Your World”. Some of my students are doing Activity 7 “The Place I Would Like to Visit Most”. That sounded like fun so I’ve joined in. Anyone who knows even a little about me knows the answer to that question. I want…

I’ve heard it said you shouldn’t count the words. Write what you want to. Let the story do the driving. Don’t be distracted by the numbers. In a perfect Utopian literary world – and we all know there’s no such thing – that might work for some. I always count the words. I think the…

I’ve always been interested in ninjas. I have a collection of reference books and there are ninjas in two of the Samurai Kids series books – Owl Ninja has Japanese ninjas and Monkey Fist introduces ninjas from China. So this made me smile. I found it via a friend ,on the FaceBook Page of Life,…

“What if you had to write another Samurai Kids book and you couldn’t think of anything?” a Year 6 boy asked. “Oh that could never happen,” I said. Or could it? I’ve always had a safety net to protect me from worrying about this. Samurai Kids White Crane began with just one sentence: “My name…

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