Aug 15
Its truly hard to believe that I’ve been teaching for 32 years. First days still feel like those first days with the crazy school dream the night before and the excitement and apprehension before classes begin. I’m sure this year will be no different. You’d also think that, after 32 years, I’d have this first …
Sep 10
Ok… I’ve fallen off the “one blog post a week” bandwagon but hope to jump back on this weekend! In the meantime, I’ve had several folks ask for these so I thought would go ahead and post them. These were definitely a collaborative effort between several teachers at my school over several years (including Kate …
Aug 22
Our pre-week activities ended this Tuesday and kids came back on Wednesday! Yes, finally kids on Wednesday! We run a mixed schedule of blocks and singles so this week we came back to two blocks with a singleton day on Friday. The blocks allow us to run an “advisory” of sorts that we call “Black …
