Yesterday I received a note in snail mail from a former student who graduated this year. Here is what it said, typed as closely as possible to the original:
Thank you Mrs. Ayres,
you tought me alot you always were there for me to help me through the ruff times. you Believed in me when no one [...]
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Regular readers of this blog might remember how impressed I was with one of my students who artfully mentored her memoir after Cynthia Rylant last month. She’s also been writing some amazing poems this month. So, this is what I just got finished writing on her report card (and I’m all chocked-up):
Molly listens [...]
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On Thursday afternoon my students counted the photocopies of the book covers that I have hanging on clotheslines all around our classroom. Nearly every book I’ve read (save a few whose covers I never hung) to my students has it’s cover posted around the room (laminated on mounted construction paper). They counted, with [...]
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Ever do something that you look back on and think, “What was I thinking?” Well, when I came across this photo of my feet (Sorry, but I have to post it for you to get the full effect!) from 2001, I was horrified at what I allowed someone to do to my feet:
You know [...]
