This past week end, I started teaching my arts integration grad course through the district in which I work. 16 teachers from grades Pre K-12 gathered together and worked hard getting started on the track of Arts Integration. It was wonderful! We talked, we listened, we created, we collaborated, we connected. What else can you [...]
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I love to tell my students that it’s my job to push them. I want them to work hard and not settle for ok. I have so many smart kids in my class who just have a natural gift to do well in school, but I like to push them. The same is true with [...]
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My last post RE-Assigning Work is a tangent thought to the thoughts in this one. There I spoke of how sometimes the assignments we give need to be given back to our students so that they can try again and do better work. (It’s part of the process, after all of becoming better at something.) [...]
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I sat correcting journals this week end and was reflecting on the quality of the work that lay in front of me. Honestly, it wasn’t very good. There were missing capitals and end marks, sentences that were vague and penmanship that seemed rushed. As I sat at my kitchen table, aware of the fact that [...]
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The end of 2011 has me really thinking about life, work, parenthood, and teacherhood. I’m trying to put things into perspective. What are the tops of my lists? At home – quality time with my family. At school – time to invest in the learning of my students. This vacation break, I’ve decided to really [...]
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Music does bring us joy. We listen to it, sing it, perform it, stand in awe of it. Whether we are musicians or not, there is a place in our hearts for music. The holidays are no different. I love using music in many ways during the holidays: as we decorate our tree I like [...]
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Ever feel like your muse has let you down? Ever need a little inspiration? That’s where I am right about now. Uninspired. There’s a long list of things to do and no good place to start them. The holidays are bogging me down, not lifting me up. My students, as much as I love them, [...]
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Sarah Morris, from Primrose preschools, shares a post with us today about how to cultivate a great love of literacy with children. ~EMP Young children love to imitate what the adults in their lives are doing. They will happily “clean” the house while Mom performs her chores or “mow” the lawn in imitation of Dad. [...]
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I’m completing a online wellness challenge through my school’s health insurance. Overall, I’m logging in my time exercising each day and weight each week, but each week there is also some other challenge. One week it was to eat up to 9 servings of fruits and veggies, the next it was to keep a food [...]
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