Poetry Friday: An Original Acrostic.
With the start of the year, I’ve noticed several teachers having students use their names to make acrostic poems. I was reminded of a post Stacey wrote * about encouraging meaning in acrostic… Read More
Category Archive: wn entry
WN Entry: I Am Amazed…
I Am Amazed is written and illustrated by Jodi Hills. It’s a book that pays tribute to the people in our everyday lives that we often look past and recognizes the beauty within… Read More
Ruth’s SOLS: October.
Here’s a Slice of Life that I can hardly wait to experience . . . (Is it a SOLS if it’s yet to come? I suppose, since I’ve experienced it in the past!)… Read More
Stacey’s Sleepless Slice
Sleepless SOLS Originally uploaded by teachergal Just a little picture of what the start of my day has been like…
fierce wonderings
Fierce wonderings is a term coined by Ralph Fletcher in his book A Writer’s Notebook, which if you don’t have, you need to go straight to Amazon.com & order it! I’ve been privileged to… Read More
Stacey’s SOLS
Click on the image above to read the text. It starts at the top right and finishes at the bottom left corner of the page.
Stacey’s Slice of Life from a Fantastic Day at Jacob’s Pillow
SOLSC for 081208 Originally uploaded by teachergal Anyone who participated in the March Slice of Life Story Challenge will likely remember the Golf Caddy/Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival ‘Bet.’ To that end, I finally… Read More
PHOTO FRIDAYS: NYY vs. SOX
I loved this guy’s shirt… so I took a photo! Originally uploaded by teachergal “You can take the girl out of NY, but you can’t take the NY out of the girl!” That’s… Read More
Ruth’s MM: A Safe Home
The light-hearted air that usually surrounded me during the first day of summer vacation was missing. My mom and I sat on the floor of my bedroom, surrounded by all of the collected… Read More
My Thoughts on Writing.
One of the initial writer’s notebook entries I ask that we create in the BWWT (I’m so sick of typing: Beginning Writing Workshop Training) is to think about our past writing experiences. Yesterday, here’s what… Read More
Stacey’s M.M. Post: Growing Up… Literally
(I’m using Ruth’s “I Remember” Memoir Post from last week to help me set up my post today. I figured this would be a nice way to show how other teachers’ writing can… Read More
Ruth’s Day in a Sentence.
Head spinning with ideas and plans and items to do, while attempting to balance my many roles.
Ruth’s SOLS: What’s your mom do?
Yesterday afternoon, my oldest daughter and I were driving home from school shopping. Our conversation was one in which I was asking questions regarding important info that she should know – things like telephone… Read More
Ruth’s Memoir Monday: I remember.
I remember lazy summer days with nothing to do but read a book cover-to-cover. I remember summers filled with professional development nearly every week. I remember dinner conversations that were entirely devoted to… Read More
Stacey’s M.M.: Teaching
I graduated from college with a B.A. in Communication and a minor in U.S. History. Even though I decided to move to NYC to work in the cosmetics industry, I secretly wanted to… Read More
Ruth’s MM: My Brother.
Last night I was looking through some of my original posts, trying to find the words to match a picture. Along the way, I ran across this post about when my brother and… Read More
Ruth’s SOLS: Giggles.
Tonight, while Andy cooked dinner and I continued my recovery, we sent the kids upstairs to play. The monitor was on and it was filling the entire downstairs with giggles. They were having… Read More
SOLS: Bedtime Ice Cream.
At twenty-eight minutes before bedtime last night, I decided to be one cool mom and offer ice cream cones. There were three takers. I scooped three cones and we headed outside to the… Read More
Ruth’s SOLSC: Moments.
Recently I uploaded 218 photos from the past nine days. (It’s a good thing I’m ruthless with the delete button, eh?) As I was looking through them, searching for a SOLS to share,… Read More
