September 2007 - Posts
When I tell people what I do for a living, I usually get one of three reactions. Reaction #1: “Oooooo…little kids are sooooo cuuuuuute!!! I am so jealous!! It must be so fun to color and sing all day.” This reaction tends to send me into a bit of a rage
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Is your school office the most chaotic, loud, semi-unprofessional space in the building?? Seriously, in the middle of the day, it’s a calm, air-conditioned utopia…free of crying children, without constant interruptions and there are no small puddles of
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Ok…I am sensing from the response to my last post (or lack thereof) that it was not my best. I’m no dummy – I’m picking up what you’re putting down, cyberspace. So, let me try to remedy the situation with something a little more in line with my usual
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This post will be short. Short like Mr. Big White Guitar’s attention span. Short like my fuse for many of the slackers who call themselves “educators.” Short like the half day we had in order to make time for meeting in cross-grade curricular teams. I’m
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Thanks to all of you who asked about my long weekend...it was lovely and restorative. Many cocktails with umbrellas in them were embibed and I'm am fabulously tan. All in all...perfect. But now, back to reality. Isn’t it inevitable that once the school
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This one will really warm your heart. Really. I think any story of mine that includes the Bacon Hunter is one that is guaranteed to inspire you to do great things. Am I shoveling it fast enough? Are you sensing the sarcasm? We have to do compile math
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Who Doesn’t Love a Good Sock Puppet?? Happy Monday everyone!! As I strolled into school today, I wondered what the week would bring, what new anecdotes I would have for my blog, juicy tidbits for my friends…and then I realized…it is time to introduce
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During our prep today we had our first meeting with the ELA staff developer at our school. She is lovely and efficient and very knowledgeable. Seriously. No sarcasm here for once. I swear. I know it's rare, but I actually think this woman works hard.
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So now that my little friends are big time second graders, I insist that they write both their first and last name at the top of their papers. It may not sound like a big deal, but boy did it rock their world!! It was like I asked them to write 500 pages
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Ha!! That’s the title of Bob Guiney’s book – remember the Bachelor?? Ahhh, the hours of mindlessness…I miss that. Now that school has OFFICIALLY started those hours (and days) are over. So, you ask, how was the first day of school? As many of you know,
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