Brag about your awesome class. Then it's full moon. Even when they drove me crazy today, I still saw plenty of sweet. A weekend will make things better.

It is possible that there is electrical going wrong in our house. I wish it would magically go away.

The weekend, it pleases me.

Winter break has begun and I'm all off-balance from craziness, but ready to relax. My current frustrations include far too much time in front of a screen of one sort or another and a lack of discipline to actually use those reading glasses my eye doctor told me to start using last spring. So there's some stuff to work on. I've also rejoined the ( Read more... )

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I have two grant proposals at DonorsChoose.org that are going to expire in three weeks so I'm trying to get the word out in case someone is looking for a good cause ( Read more... )

We are home an so happy to be here. Eventually I'll post a picture, but the computer is not nearly so interesting these days as my beautiful son, born June 29th in an emergency c-section after 48 hours of labor at home. Turned out he flipped at the last minute and wanted to leave butt-first. Locke Magnus Brillig is amazing and beautiful.

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Generous donors have been plugging away at my grant projects at donorschoose.org. I have one that is expiring at the beginning of August and really hope it makes it. It's called Read to Me For Fluency and is for seven cd walkmen that my students can use to listen to audio books as they follow along with a text. It really encourages my low ( Read more... )

My cd player grant expires in August, which is going to be here before you know it. These cd players will make listening centers in the classroom possible and build literacy skills. They replace ones I've purchased myself that have lived good lives and served my students for two years. Want to donate a dollar or fund the entire project? Any amount ( Read more... )

I'm working on several non-fiction book grants as summer rolls along. Here is one that recently was approved on donorschoose.org:
Research This!Any size donation is accepted and appreciated -$5 to complete funding -so if you want to help, don't worry about it not being enough. It all adds up. If you think you know someone who might be interested ( Read more... )

Today over $200 has been donated to my book grant on DonorsChoose. I'm not sure what the trigger was, but I'm thrilled and excited. At this point I only need $30 more to have the funds for nonfiction book sets. You can follow my progress hereIf you get there too late but still want to help, you're welcome to contribute to my document camera ( Read more... )

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