A Regular Habit - Hopeful

          Slicing with the Two Writing Teachers community is a pleasure every week.  Thank you Stacey, Tara, Anna, Betsy, Dana, Kathleen, Beth, and Deb.

          Wallace Stevens wrote: "Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." I'm happy to say that I've started a new habit, morning walks. I'm not a morning person, so when I worked, I never found that getting up in the dark to exercise was particularly thrilling. These morning walks are usually about 9am or after. I tried to stay mobile at school, walked around the building, parked a long way away in any parking lot, and "sometimes" walked after work. It wasn't fun since I was tired, and certainly irregular. 

A Whoosh of A Week!

   Thanks to Ruth Ayres at Discover, Play, Build we celebrate the week of special moments.

 The time at school before the holidays fills and fills. It's like a holiday basket overflowing each and every day. Last week I celebrated family time during our time of Thanksgiving. This week I'm celebrating my week with students, working each day to complete projects for their units, read their books, preparing for different "events" that happen in the final week before winter break. 

         Students in my school study different topics independently, and here is what some of the students worked on this week: a blueprint of a house model that will soon be created, a report of the events in the 20th century that caused changes in fashion. an editorial about social media effects on friendships, models of energy-wasting parts of vehicles and possible 'fixes' for them, and plans for a public art piece to be painted in a school stairway. You can see why individual conferences, lists and lists of materials needed are on all of our minds. It was a good, settled week of work for most, including some reading, writing, and art as well.