100 Day Project – Day 31 – 8:57 p.m. Today I read Llama Llama Red Pajama – not once – but twice! Did you? As part of JumpStart’s Read for the Record Program, I enjoyed reading the book to a group of early childhood pre-service teachers, and a group of women who donated books and [...]
100 Day Project – Day 20 – 7:41 p.m. Today, my grasp of the craft of teaching was there for me in one of my classes. In a course – a 100 level class – with a focus on learning to bring creative experiences to the young child – I changed my plans completely 20 [...]
Day 100 Project – Day 19 – 7:53 p.m. The excuses, oh sorry, reasons, have begun. Why my reading response is late, and when I’ll get it in to you — okay? I’ve learned at community college that many excuses are reasons; and incredibly legitimate reasons. Just today a young woman called to tell me [...]
100 Days Project – Day 11 – 8:31 p.m. “Ten. At the end of the day, good teaching is about having fun, experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards … like locking eyes with a student in the back row and seeing the synapses and neurons connecting, thoughts being formed, the person becoming better, and a smile [...]
100 Days Project — Day 1 — 5:45 a.m. Well, I have to laugh this morning as I begin to write the first entry. I got up very early on this first day of school to do some online research and writing only to discover that my Internet is down. So the piece I was [...]
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In just a few days, I’ll be blogging again while hubby and I attend the annual Shaker Seminar. Before that, however, I want to post a little memory in honor of my father-in-law who passed this past week. I’d known him for the close to 40 years I’ve been married to his son. He was [...]
It’s a beautiful spring day here — after yesterday’s gloomy April showers. There’s just a tiny bit of snow pack left between houses. This morning’s smells make me think of the forsythia bush next to 20 New St where often when spring broke out my children could be found setting up house. It also [...]
Snow days and what do we do with them? I came across this blog posting about how to teach our students when we can’t be with them. This thought, I’m sure, was brought on by the fact that many of us in New England, and perhaps other places in the US, had two weather related [...]
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We had a great time presenting at SECA (Southern Early Childhood Conference) today in Savannah, Georgia. Preschool Players at SECA
As we walk back and forth each day to our bed and breakfast, actually depending on the cloud cover which so far (and we’re told is most times) is always there; we get peeks of the Chugach Mountains. This morning they were particularly majestic and bright in the bit of sun we were treated to [...]
