I took my Nyquil at 10 and woke up at 4:30 coughing, so I'm killing time waiting for the second dose to kick in. (Thank goodness it's summer, so I can sleep all morning if I need to ( Read more... )

After hearing an NPR story on people writing their own versions of This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams, I had my students do their own. These are my favorites ( Read more... )

It's HOT. My students have this lovely, lovely aroma rising from them. And there's just heat coming off them like from steaming pavement.

I've had my Kindle for almost a week. And I ADORE it.

It's pleasant to actually read, which is the most important thing. Within 20 minutes I didn't notice I was using an e-book reader anymore. Downloading is ridiculously easy. There are TONS of free books available.

( Read more )

Yay!

My munchkins are watching "Newsies" after analyzing Lewis Hine photos and discussing child labor at the turn of the 20th century. I just had to stop the movie because one of them wanted to know if the newsies sang and danced EVERY morning. (5th grade, folks.) Anyway, I had told them that the guy who plays Jack (Christian Bale) plays Batman, and ( Read more... )

My 5th graders are reading and analyzing 8 poems of their choice this week, and I decided to do the project along with them. I ran across this poem on the Bill Moyers "Fooling with Words" site and I kept forgetting to breathe as I was rereading it. So I wanted to share ( Read more... )

I watched the Kate Beckinsale Emma the other day, finally (I've got all of the JA Masterpieces on Tivo). I'd never seen it before. It was fine-- she was less annoying than Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma, but I can't decide if that's a good thing or not. Isn't Emma supposed to be a little obnoxious ( Read more... )

I am often overly honest with my superiors ( Read more... )

This is LibraryThing's Most Unread book Meme, which I copied from everybody. It's a list of books people own but have tagged as unread on LibraryThing. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, strike through the ones you couldn't stand ( Read more... )