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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Poetry Friday - Anticipation

Poetry Friday, with Sylvia Vardell at Poetry for Children this week! She, with Janet Wong, are celebrating a new poetry book for school leaders, helping them greet the day. It's Great Morning! Poems for School Leaders to Read Aloud and it, like all the other books from Sylvia and Janet, is filled with poets you know and their poems this time for the best greetings to the day. Thanks, Sylvia for hosting, and both of you for this new book.

My family and I leave for Costa Rica on Saturday! I'll try to visit as many posts as possible but may not make it to all this time.
Here's a poem of anticipation.

Mapping Vacation

I consider the photos

with inviting ocean blues,

Note the azure view! --

a roadmap to the days away
chooses me,

echoing sea waves of the past,

chasing a burst of family time

signaling days called slow.

Anticipate!

It’s nearly time to go.

Friday, July 31, 2015

Anticipation Celebration

I celebrate each Saturday with Ruth Ayres at Discover Play Build. There are many others who celebrate, too. Come join us! Tweet at #CelebrateLu

With a little humor thrown in: on my walk today, I imagined
that the rabbit was anticipating that I wouldn't see him at all.
But he did allow the picture!

My slice of life - Anticipating!

Thanks to those writers at Two Writing Teachers, we share parts of our lives on our Tuesday slices. Link up to add your own story.

Slicing this week is full of lists and planning. I'm off to my state reading conference on Thursday, early in the am.

Since I'm filled to the brim with anticipation, it makes me pause to wonder how much we as teachers take for granted that students will be excited about a new activity, assignment, or trip? What if we did something like producing a fun calendar or flier about something coming to the classroom? What if we created a special song or rhyme that invited a certain tradition that occurred every week? What if? I know with the catalog, the e-mails, and all the advertising my reading association is sharing, I am really excited! I am preparing for a positive experience! I'm hoping to learn and to bring back ideas for colleagues! We live in a world of marketing. Is there a way to use some of the ideas marketers use with our students? At least it's something to contemplate?

I Could Write...

Stacey and Ruth at Two Writing Teachers host the Slice of Life community each Tuesday. Read and enjoy!

I could write about...
The marvelous time I've had with my former assistant as my co-teacher this past month, until the end of school-this week! He will be taking this new position next year, so I will then begin working with him as a coach. He will be/already is a terrific teacher and I've been blessed to have this chance to work together one more time with him.