I used to be the kid who got lost in dozens of books in the summertime. I used any time or place I could to open up my latest Judy Blume or Babysitters Club book: backyard, beach, bedroom, a visit to Gramma’s, the waiting room at the doctor’s office… I loved to read, to get [...]
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Just yesterday, my 4th grade team got together to discuss the end of the year events and found ourselves overwhelmed with everything that needs to get done. Now here is the irony – we have steadily complained about the late end to the school year (June 27), often joking about how we will have so [...]
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The Flame has long been an image I hold dear. It is a symbol of creativity to me. Months ago I wrote a post about how I found that flame. It is called Feed Your Flame. In it I describe how painting the image and ultimately dancing the image of a flame helped me to [...]
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Practice what I preach…that has been a saying in the back of my head for the last few weeks. Our state testing for math starts today and it has been a real challenge balancing test prep with innovative, meaningful teaching. In the past few weeks, I’ve had to squeeze in math topics we hadn’t gotten [...]
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Before I begin, I want you to know that I hear you rapping the title of this post to the line in Bust a Move by Young MC, “No fine girls, just ugly faces…” Ok, I know that’s bad, but stick with me! There is an actual post coming… I was rereading a post from [...]
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I am SO looking forward to today!!! I love it when our wonderful PTA provides us with a Teacher Appreciation lunch. It is truly lovely, relaxing and, well, leaves me very full of great food! (I remember blogging about this luncheon last year! ;-p) But to top it off, they cover our duties so that [...]
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I love the idea of going paperless. I’m all for saving trees. And what better time to think about the implications of working towards being paperless than during the week and month of Earth Day? But, oh, boy, do we have a long way to go. In fact I cringe at how much paper [...]
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There are so many natural connections between the MI theory and Arts Integration. Some of them are obvious when you consider some of the Smarts that are identified: music, kinesthetic, visual/spacial, linguistic. But the MI theory goes even further with the other Smarts: logical, naturalistic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. However, even these smarts are based in [...]
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How do you approach teaching? When you are with students, how do you act? What do you say? Are you engaging and encouraging? Are you curt and sarcastic? Are you somewhere in between? (These are questions I ask of you and of myself…we’re in this together, after all. ) In the book I am currently [...]
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