100 Day Project – Day 42 – 8:16 p.m. (If you’re paying attention I skipped Days 40 and 41 over the weekend.) An interesting internet road happened today: First my usual email newsletter blast from Child Care Exchange about Creativity. From there I decided to follow their link to The 99% website that seems to [...]
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100 Days Project – Day 2 – 9:15 a.m. I hesitated for several weeks while I thought about whether I should pursue this project; time, busy live, family, time, homework to read, time – well you get the idea. Already this morning, although I’m working at home for a couple of hours, I’ve had to [...]
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 [...]
Tags: 100 days·first day of school·joy·learning·school·teaching
It’s taken me a few days to get to the blog; but last weekend I enjoyed what has become a yearly reunion of some great women who once taught and worked together at a school called the Learning Community (no website, but if you Google it, you will find descriptions and location for today). It’s [...]
Tags: Books·Cape Cod·Learning Community·NAEYC·No Child Left Behind·Obama·school
Today I can’t blame difficulty accessing the Internet (I might have said this before, but access to wireless is very hard to find and very pricey in Spain – we Americans clearly take it for granted!) for not posting for three days! Today is our fifth day of classes in Spanish and we are exhausted [...]
Tags: Alhambra·school·Spanish language
Hola from Granada! This past Saturday we enjoyed our last day in Seville with souvenir hunting (can’t tell you what we bought until the recipients receive them!), but thank goodness we left some extra room in our luggage. We also, after some reading, choose a flamenco show to go to as our send off to [...]
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