

Choose Your Own Adventure
We all have choices to make. All. As parents, students, friends, mothers and sons and daughters, husbands, wives and teachers. What does...


What You Don't See
I have been able to contact most of the parents with children in my class in the last two weeks. Everyone has been very positive. I enjoy...


Done!
We made it. The first full week of school is over and now we can settle into a routine. We have learned so much about how our classroom...


Call Them In
I have to ask you to call them in now. Call them in from swings and skinned knees and freckles. Call them in from water hoses and fishing...


Off to Great Places
They left. They checked out early. They didn't come at all. They got on buses. They asked me one more time if I could go to third grade...


The Beauty of Spring
I know you think I am going to talk about the mild weather, flowers, and the trills of birds but you'd be wrong, my friend. I am talking...


Always Winter but Never Christmas
Well, the dreary drearies are here. Sniffles, chapped lips, fevers and coat wrangling seem to be the four horsemen that Old Man Winter,...


A Grateful Heart
I had a hard time letting them go Friday...I always do but this time a parent witnessed my stalling. I wonder what she thought as I...


BAM!
Just like that. How did nine weeks go by already? We have been extraordinarily busy, that’s how! Here is the highlight reel: We have...