Paula Greene

Pencils Down!: a Forty-five Year Teaching Odyssey: a Teacher's Manual for Educating for Life. Paula Greene

Welcome to Pencils Down! This book, written for all educators, is packed with lessons that work, enrichment activities based on beloved children's books, school humor, and sage advice ready to be used by anyone who desires to instill a love of learning in a child. It is hoped that by sharing classroom experiences the reader will be educated, enlightened, and entertained, and that by engaging in the activities, every child can learn to love books and appreciate the extended benefits of lifelong literacy. Some parts of the book will cause you to laugh aloud, while others will bring tears to your eyes. Join me on a teaching odyssey whose itinerary begins in elementary school and spans more than four decades. I have taken that journey at the head of the class.