Like Patricia Polacco’s classic Thank You, Mr. Falker, this funny, touching picture book celebrates the difference a good teacher can make. Written as a thank-you note to a special teacher from the st
"Hi! I'm Katie Woo. My teacher Miss Winkle asked us to write a thank you letter to a special classroom visitor. Well, once I got started writing letters, I didn't want to stop. From the greeting to th
Dear Parents, Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. The writing system is called fid l (ፊደል) in Ethiopian Semitic languages. Fid l means "script", "alphabet", "letter", or "character". The writing system is also called abugida (አቡጊዳ), from the first four symbols; from this the modern term abugida is derived.Each character represents a consonant+vowel sequence, but the basic shape of each character is determined by the consonant, which is modified for the vowel. Some consonant phonemes are written by more than one series of characters: /ʔ/, /s/, /Sʼ/, and /h/ (the last one has four distinct letter forms). This is because these fidel originally represented distinct sounds, but phonological changes merged them.The language is a basic characteristic which constitutes one's own representation of who you are.Children and Parents may feel that using English as a common language, it won't matter whether they learn Amharic or not.It happens that your
A sensitive coming-of-age tale by the award-winning author of Letter to My Daughter finds 14-year-old Alan Broussard swept up by his geeky science teacher father's community-wide comet-watching activi
WHO SENT AMBER LEE AN ANONYMOUS LETTER? Everyone loves the new teacher, Mr. Merlin. Mr. Merlin used to be a spy, and he knows all about secret codes and the strange and gross ways the police solve my
