As I have told you in person, I leave notes for myself on my phone–often while driving. It is illegal, I suppose, since I use the keyboard and type them, but I typically save it for stoplights, and don’t worry about spelling or anything. Nearly always they are ideas for school or quite close to…
I am going through my papers at school (ahem, 4 BOXES of papers) and found this page of emails and notes: The content is not that important. We were having technical difficulties that day and this was an email string trying to fix it. What I am trying to share here is this piece: …
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We started our photography unit last week. Today we took some photos, and this one made my heart smile. Thank you to fellow caped blogger, TM, for reminding me that I come to school for the pumpkin-heads. I needed the reminder today.
Hope Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And…
In a discussion about “texture” in photography. We* were listing common items and describing the texture. Us: How about a waterbed? J: Uh… pushily! I’d say that’s pretty much a perfect description. In fact, I just did say it. Just now. I said it. *Note–I am using the royal “we” here. I was not, actually,…
I am not entirely sure why, but according to Blogger, this post– this post right here–this post is only my 98th post. I think I deleted some one day. Or I can’t read. Or I can’t count. Who knows? What is important is that my 102th (pronounced one-hundred-tooth) post is still coming up. Mark your calendars!…
In our recent discussion of folktales, we listed the following components: 1. A powerful person 2. A not-so-powerful person 3. Twists and turns 4. A beautiful character 5. A problem or riddle 6. A Moral 7. The End After some practice the Sugar Pies were assigned the following task, and we created a rubric* for…
On days like today, I am quite certain that my little sweet-niks simply cannot hear me. It isn’t that they cannot hear (although one of them used to have a hearing loss), and it isn’t that they have an auditory processing deficit (although quite a percentage of them do), and it isn’t that they are…
The lesson of the day was “elaboration.” We talked for a while about the difference between elaboration, exaggeration, and lies. We talked about when elaboration is a good idea, and when it might not be (“when the police ask you questions?”). We then dug into my collection of interesting magazine photos (fifteen years in the…
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