The Daily Post on WordPress, Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of December 13th is Ascend. Here are my interpretations of the word through my photographs. Inspired by the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend.
Feedback on Writing
What kind of feedback do you offer your students on their writing? Are you red pen crazy? Do you mark up the paragraph, page, or essay with slashes, carots, and circles every where there is an error? Do you do this with another color pen – trying to conceal your zeal for marking the page?…
Holiday Haiku
Snow, Softly Falling White Blankets Sleeping Green Grass Wondrous Winter World Twinkling Lights Shine Bouncing Off Dark Wet Pavement Leads Us Into Night Wrapping, Baking, Fun Music Festively Playing Christmastime is Here Friends Remember Us Told Through Open Greeting Cards Peace, Love, and Kindness
Five Days to a Tailspin
This is a story about my intensity as a person and why I cannot make a run for a seat on the school board. You need to know that I wish I did not notice every little thing or have the intense desire to want change and educational reform. It is a story about letting…
Poinsettias: An Enrichment Post
Between yesterday and today I taught five classrooms of students about poinsettias. They ranged from second to fifth grade. What follows is some of what I shared with them. The poinsettia is named after Dr. Joel Poinsett, the first American ambassador to Mexico. Dr. Poinsett, whose hobby was botany, saw the plant while on a…
Slice of Life Tuesday: My Last 24 Hours
List style posts are not really my thing but today, I thought I would share my last 24 hours in such a style. I have written more substantial posts in the last week and if you need more “meat” for a slice of life post, you can check out my post on Nutcrackers from yesterday, 12/4/2017,…
Nutcrackers
Growing up I was fascinated by the story of the Nutcracker. It seemed so magical that one could come to life! The story still holds some of that Christmas magic for me. Over the years, I have collected many different Nutcrackers. It started innocently enough; I think by my mom giving me one or two…
Silent Sunday: Winter Is Coming! Right?
Have You Ever??? Shopped Consignments
When my boys were very young, I took their gently used clothes and baby equipment after we were sure we were done having kids to a couple of consignment stores in our area. I was able to receive a few small checks for our items. This turned out to be instead of hosting a garage…
Drinks of Bermuda
This is not my first blog piece for today, but I guess I am just not ready to post what I wrote earlier. Now, it is late in the day and I am do not feel like posting a heavy piece of writing (>1,000 words). So, in celebration of 5 o’clock on a Friday, I…