Today we started to write memoirs. While I’m glad to share the steps leading up to these very-first-inkling drafts, I’d rather just show y’all what they came up with. Here is the mentor text we used. It’s from Knots in My Yo-yo String by Jerry Spinelli. We are using his memoirs as our mentor text…
If you are old like me, or like I’m fixin’ to be soon, you might remember this commercial: Rather than launch into a discussion about how this irritated me when it came out, how it’s a tag phrase I remember now, and how it is possible they were making a joke (I hope), I will…
The lovies are playing board games, dressing up from the costume bin, and challenging me to various card games. They’ve earned some free-choice time at the end of the day on a Friday. J. observes B. is not paying attention during our game of Uno and is causing our game to go more slowly than…
One of my caped friends sent this blog to me. It is enough to simply repost here… Reposted from http://heygirlteacher.tumblr.com/
This caped teacher and one of her caped friends watched Chicago a while back on the television box. We intended to watch something else, but this caped teacher made an error in planning. Good news though, Rule #5 has revealed itself (see the rest of the rules here). Roxie Hart has quite shocking language in…
Wear The Cape 