Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
All fifth grade students at our school keep check registers. They earn “credits” for good behavior and are assessed “debits” for bad behavior. Today as we came in from lunch I asked the class to get ready for Science. Most of them were so excited about the idea (not) that [...]
Some days you’re the windshield; Some days you’re the bug. I went to work this morning without my lunch. That wouldn’t have been too bad, but I’d elected to skip breakfast and was rather hungry by lunch time. I decided that my forgetfulness deserved rewarding, so I hopped in the [...]
I have 20 kids in my reading class. Everyday I try to read one-on-one with 4 or 5 of them. While I am listening to their peers read, the remainder of the class has assignments to complete. They should be busy and productive, but it doesn’t always happen. There was [...]
After reading my, Cruella, story on, The Grownups Wanted Us Dead, my sister Caryl commented that the Cruella head worked fine during the day, but it didn’t keep the kids from coming into my room at night to sleep with me. Actually, the only kid that came into my room [...]
For those that do not know: my sister, Caryl, has “rules.” One of her rules is, If I call you, you don’t say ‘what?’ or ‘coming.’ You show up — now. She also, always, had a house full of kids — her own, the neighbor’s, and a whole twittering Blue [...]