Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Okay, confession time, this is what took me to the point of inattentiveness which led to the disasters in yesterday’s post — all of you will know instantly what I didn’t grasp until long after I ran my mouth: Fifth grade has compartmentalized and we are running the last semester [...]
Directions for writing a cinquain: 1st line: 1 noun 2nd line: 2 describing words 3rd line: 3 verbs 4th line: short descriptive phrase 5th line 1 noun, synonym of the first noun. I modeled the lesson using the first and last name of the school janitor, a favored staff member. [...]
Girls preppy, smart caring, sharing, shopping beautiful, long-haired, sporting, fast daring, rapping, rocking messy, hairy boys –RL ~ Summer hot, sunny watering, swimming, fishing warm, nice, cold, rainy snowing, icing, blowing white, cloudy winter –LM ~ Nice graceful, quiet pleasing, loving caring, pleasant, thoughtful, [...]
Some kind of weird dynamics are going on in my classroom. For instance, during reading today, there came a brief lull when everyone in every literature discussion group must have taken a breath at the same time. One of those strange quick moments when a crowd is momentarily silent for no [...]
Two — count them — one, two — birthday posts from O’Ceallaigh. (The placement of the second post may require retaliation of some kind.) One from a Dawg named Doug. Well, two, but he erased me from yesterday and replaced me with a dead Russian. Pft. (OC replaced me with [...]