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    Amazing Days
    Amazing Days
    Amazing Days
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    Amazing Days

    By E. Joan O'Callaghan

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    Are you a teacher, instructor, or educator? Amazing Days by Joan O'Callaghan (Carrick Publishing 2014) is a must-read for you! Filled with wonderful, fun facts, recommended reads and classroom activities, this exceptional guide is designed to offer your students a fresh look at the calendar.

    Joan O’Callaghan is a recipient of the Golden Apple Award from Queen’s University Faculty of Education for Excellence in Teaching; named Professor of the Year by OISE/UT Students Council, as well as Most Engaging English Instructor and Most Inspirational Instructor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherE. Joan O'Callaghan
    Release dateMay 19, 2014
    ISBN9781927114858
    Amazing Days
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    E. Joan O'Callaghan

    Joan O’Callaghan was born in Toronto, but grew up in Brantford, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours B.A. in English Language and Literature. She then attended York University where she earned an M.A. in English Literature, and then a B.Ed. from the University of Toronto.Joan has been an English teacher and department head at schools in both the Halton and York Region Boards of Education, and also served for eight years as Manager of Promotional and Educational Services for the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association.It was during this time that she met her husband, J. Patrick O’Callaghan, publisher of such newspapers as the Windsor Star, the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald, and Chairman of the Boards of the Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association and the Canadian Section of the International Press Institute. Patrick O’Callaghan died in 1996 but continues to be a major influence in Joan’s life.In 1994, Joan was invited to join the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and then the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, in 1996. Joan has been on faculty at OISE/UT since 1996, training high school English teachers.Joan has been the recipient of the Golden Apple Award from Queen’s University Faculty of Education for Excellence in Teaching; she has been named Professor of the Year by the OISE/UT Students Council, as well as Most Engaging English Instructor and Most Inspirational Instructor.In addition to her full-time position at OISE/UT, Joan has an active career in freelance writing, with over 30 publications to her credit. She is the author of three books, two published by Scholastic Canada and the most recent one by Rubicon.Her freelance clients have included the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Ottawa, Maclean’s Magazine, the Ontario Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Montreal Gazette, the Hamilton Spectator, the Windsor Star, B’nai Brith Canada, and the Toronto Star. She has published articles in the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, the Hamilton Spectator, the Simcoe Reformer, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Toronto Sun and the Jerusalem Post.Joan’s interests include reading, writing, live theatre, cooking and spending time with friends and family. All her activities are closely supervised by her cat Benny.

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      Amazing Days - E. Joan O'Callaghan

      SEPTEMBER 1

      On this day in 1968, a school for training circus clowns was established in Florida. It was the first school of its kind and offered a free eight-week course covering subjects such as slaps, falls, juggling, stilt-walking, make-up and pantomime.

      Clown Faces

      Materials needed:

      yellow, blue, pink, red, orange and green construction paper

      tape

      a stapler

      Directions

      Cut out the following:

      two blue star shapes

      one yellow circle, one red circle and four orange circles (5 cm in diameter)

      one green triangle

      one pink clown-shaped mouth

      How to put it all together

      Fold two large square sections of the newspaper like an accordion, using 5 cm folds. Fold each accordion in half to make fan shapes, then staple the flat sides of the fans together to form one big circle. Attach the yellow circle to the tip of the triangle to make the clown’s hat and cut the orange circles in continuous spirals to make the clown’s hair.

      Attach the mouth, the hat and the hair to the clown’s face. Then glue on the red circle for the clown’s nose and the star shapes for the eyes.

      Extended Activity

      Invite the children to choose names for their clowns, and have each write or tell a little story about what it must be like to be a circus clown. The stories can then be shared orally or written out and attached to each clown.

      Books

      Circus Time by Connie Klayer and Joanna Kuhn, Scholastic, 1979

      Jumbo, The Biggest Elephant in the Whole World, by Frances McLaughlin Burns. Scholastic, 1978.

      SEPTEMBER 4

      In 1876, Frederic Stupart issued the first Canadian-prepared storm warning from the headquarters of the new Meteorological Service of Canada in Toronto.

      Prior to this, trains used to carry large metal discs on their baggage cars or engines to provide weather forecasts for people living within sight of the railway. The shape of the disc indicated the nature of the forecast. A full moon predicted fine weather, a star meant rain and a crescent moon called for showers.

      Weather Discs

      Tell the children about the trains and the discs they used to carry, then invite them to design their own weather discs for today’s weather. Encourage them to share their completed discs with the rest of the class and ask them to explain their choice of symbols.

      Extended Activity

      Discuss the way we get our weather information from TV, radio and newspapers and let the children take turns being class meteorologist for a day.

      SEPTEMBER 8

      Today is International Literacy Day and it’s a good time to promote a love of reading in your classroom.

      I Want To Read About…

      Try some of the following with your class

      * Set aside some time each day for USSR (uninterrupted silent sustained reading).

      * Invite each child to bring his/her favourite book to class or

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