[SDAWP Photo Voices] Yellow Link-up
I finished off my yellow week with a few pictures that I liked. Yellow was tough for me, for some reason, but I think I made friends with it.
[Life] The One Where I Compare Doodling, Jogging, and Beauty
I am a doodler. I like the word doodle when I say it over and over again in my head (because if I did it out loud I would appear crazy). I mostly doodle for free-motion quilting ideas, but I doodle for other reasons as well. I doodle to focus when I need to, I…
[SDAWP Photo Voices] A Yellow Walk
The theme for SDAWP Photo Voices this week is “yellow.” Last week was “red” and it was surprisingly easy to find interesting red things. Yellow… so far… not so much. So early this morning,, after being pounced on by the puppy at 5:34 A.M. precisely (every, single. morning. 5:34 A.M. ) I took my trusty…
[Books] Reading List
My “to-read” list of books has recently spilled over the edges. I’m carrying a couple of books in my work bag, storing a couple more next to my bed, one more on my desk at work, and three on the Kindle app on my tablet. I want to have read them all. I actually want…
[Photography] SDAWP Photo Voices–“Red”
This week for the SDAWP Photo Voices journey the theme was “red.” I think was my favorite week by far. I loved having one theme for the week, focusing (no pun intended) on something for more than one day or one moment (usually a moment during my early morning puppy walk), and watching the photos…
…and we’re back!
A year from my last post and here I am again–ready to resurrect Wear the Cape. Follow me! Tell your friends! Pressure me to post! Offer to guest post! Let’s share what we do in our (okay, your) classrooms!
[Mentor Text Monday] Word Envy
Those of you that follow me on Facebook may have seen a series of posts straight from my Kindle this weekend. I started reading The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and have incredible word envy. Here are some excerpts that I love love loved. Loved, I tells ya. Re: the Noise Re: …
[Lesson Ideas] Magically Delicious
Here is a presentation I made to help me introduce the concept of Magic Realism at Young Writers Camp. Feel free to use it, and all images and links should either go directly to the source, or have enough information to identify the source. Please also give appropriate credit to sources if you use this–it’s…
I Won!!!
I won a contest that I didn’t even know I signed up for!!! What did I win? That’s the best part! Guess… Nope, not that. Nooooo, not that either. Okay, I’ll tell you. Wait for it… Wait for it…. Wait for it… I get to jump off a building!!!! For FREE!!! Yes, jump. Yes, a…
[Friday Free-Day] Yo! Snaps
I’m puttering around this post trying to figure out how to describe what became, this Spring, a phenomenon in my classroom. It’s quite near indescribable, but it’s also amazing and worth sharing. Where to begin…? On a Tuesday I “threw a snap” to one of my students. It’s something I used to do with my…
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