“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Moment #6 – a limerick
We’ve recently wrapped up our poetry unit with a small group share activity. Students shared a favorite poem from the many they had written – haikus, concrete, free verse, limericks, and more. A limerick in honor of a student who was very nervous to share: A student once said to his peers, “Sharing aloud is…
Moment #5 – A Fun Follow-up
Yesterday I reflected on my classroom decoration; today I follow it up with a story about last night, where my classroom decoration came into play unexpectedly. Over a year ago, my boyfriend and I discovered Taskmaster, a British comedy show where comedians compete in hilariously stupid tasks (like painting a picture of a horse while…
Moment #4 – What makes a classroom welcoming?
One of the walls in my classroom isn’t a true wall, but a partition separating my classroom from the next. Students rarely notice or care, but there is a door between the two rooms and the occasional lucky student is allowed to pass through the “secret” opening if they have classes in both rooms back-to-back.…
Moment #3 – Walking Buddies
Two of my students walk to school together, rain or shine. At the end of the day, whoever gets to their locker first will ask me if I’ve seen the other one. I usually stand in my doorway to monitor lockers while also keeping an eye on the large windows in my room, through which…
Moment #2 – Apples & Oranges
Today in class we learned about text structures: cause and effect, problem and solution, description, sequence, cause and effect. Them: “Why are all of the examples about zebras?” Me: “I guess I was thinking about zebras when I wrote them.” Them: “Is ‘problem’ a signal word for problem and solution?” Me: “Well, what do you…
Moment #1 – Basketball
My hope for this challenge is to write about one conversation or moment that brought me joy during the school day (thanks to my teacher research cohort for this idea). Today was one of the rare and reassuring days that the activities I had planned for class took the exact right amount of time. In…
Midnight Surprise
This week already pained us with daylight savings and last night I had another aggravating interruption to my sleep schedule. Why do smoke alarms always need new batteries when you have the least amount of coordination and mental faculty? We had another one start the beeping process about a month ago, so luckily we had…
Ides of March
On a day associated with the word “beware,” I’m listing 15 things that make me feel fortunate in this moment: leftover key lime pie someone’s arm around me while we watch a movie said movie, Thor Ragnarok, which is making me giggle fuzzy slippers I will wear until summer the fact that two of my…
Lucky Numbers
It didn’t occur to me that today was “pi day” until my friend complained about the madhouse situation at Bakeshop. We get all excited about certain numbers (or at least, pie-sellers and pie-eaters do). We like to keep the same uniform numbers from year to year and team to team. As a collective, we acknowledge…
Into the Woods
This week’s weather has been so nice that we wanted to spend as much time as possible out of the living room/kitchen/office box that we exist in these days. I had never been to the National Arboretum, so we stuck some granola bars and a travel dog bowl in a backpack and made a day…
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