I re-learned something I think I knew once. Journal-writing is good. Systematic sustained writing on a daily basis improves writing. It just does. I’m not going to look up the proof for this, * I’m just going to state it as a fact–in order to improve your writing you must write. Over the last five…
There is a man that goes to my neighborhood coffee shop. He is quite elderly. He is either bilingual or has a difficult time speaking. I think it might be both–a mix of a stroke and stilted English. He is there nearly every weekday morning that I am. Lately, he has been at the counter…
Earlier this week I told you about something I was going to try in my classroom–Storybirds. Well my caped friends, the birds they are a-flyin’. As the lovies finish their stories I’ll add them to the Student Story Bird page on this blog. In the meantime, here are two that made me smile or laugh…
Earlier this summer I was struck by a piece of brilliance. No jokes please…. I was watching the new Green Lantern movie and learning, for the first time, about the story of the Green Lanterns. Have you heard it? I will ‘splain. No. There is too much. I will sum up… There are tons of Green Lanterns in…
I discovered this link today while on a teacher networking site called Edmodo (more on that later). I’m still playing around with it, but will absolutely be using it this week. I’m going to use it in art class though, and sneak the writing in. Bwahahahaha. From what I can tell so far, the site…
I will tell you up front that this is, in part, a smoke screen. I have been staring at the “new post” page for more than two days* and don’t know where to start. This happened last year too. So, I am posting this to entertain you while I come up with a clear thought.…
I am quite certain I will have a new set of first day thoughts to share, but in the meantime I will shamelessly re-post from last year. I feel like this captures the first day for me. Originally posted August 17, 2010… Amid the hurley-burley of the new school year each little Lovie shakes out their feathers,…
I am not making this up. The word of the day on my word-of-the-day app is, indeed, glabrous*. Not only do I love-love-love new words, but check out this word map… I am just fascinated by this. So fascianted, in fact, that I just may pull all of my hair out and become glabrous. Won’t…
Well my caped friends, it’s nigh time to prepare for the return of my dear little poodle-heads. I have a fizzy energy about what this year might hold, but seem to be avoiding the classroom-preparation tasks ahead of me. My goal today? I actually stop by my room. That’s enough for a day, yes?
It is the wee hours of the night (only 2 hours before I’m supposed to be awake), and I’ve settled on some formatting changes. I typically go for the black backgrounds, so other than asking me to change that, if you have feedback, please leave a comment! I have lost all sense of reality and…
Wear The Cape 