Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Today the Librarian provided pizza for my class — their reward for reading 325 books during Nevada Reading Week. Five pizzas were delivered. Each pizza was cut in 8 pieces. That is 40 pieces of pizza for 24 children. Do you detect a problem? Despite the foul up, every child [...]
Every time I think I ‘ve had it and could easily kiss teaching good-bye, something happens to remind me why I do what I do. The other day the mother of a former student stopped by to tell me she’d checked into enrolling her daughter in my class next year, [...]
My elderly neighbor had her great granddaughters over today. They kept playing Britney Spears’, Oops! I Did It Again. About the second dozen times I listened to it, I wondered if the grownups in the house had gone deaf, and almost immediately I heard the little old lady query, “Honey, [...]
Now appearing at, The Grownups Wanted Us Dead: Shiny, Bright Red, part two in the saga of Quilly and Rumble, cousins with cause to kill. Every evening before dinner, Rumble would stretch out on the living-room floor and take a nap. Often, to use as little floor space as possible, [...]
January’s Test: Today we received our scores from the 5th grade writing profeciency exam we took in January, and 76 of the 118 fifth graders who took the test passed. We needed 53% to meet federal mandates, and we achieved 67%. That is pretty dang good for a school whose [...]