Literacy Learning Zone

Slice of Life Stories hosted by the  Two Writing Teachers Today, another slice of life day, thoughts are floating in my head: Girls. Growing. 2 1/2. Too fast. Mom. Visit.  Helping hands. Extra love. Overnight. Getaway. Renewed. Fresh. Time. Up. Leaving. Today. School. To do. Never. Ending. Thinking about. Interventions. Choice. Reading love. For haters. Balance. Deep breath. One day. At a time. Life. Quickly. Into perspective. Sandy. Storm. Water. Terrifying. Outages. Flooding. Wild winds. Damage. Prayers. Thoughts. Safety. Calm. Today, as Sandy hovers and wreaks havoc, thoughts are swimming in my head.

Slice of Life Stories hosted by the  Two Writing Teachers just a day ever have that feeling when you just want a break -- from everything? a mental health sort-of-a-day. i'm tired, just oh-so-tired. between home and school between little ones and bigger ones oh, and cleaning and groceries and laundry and -- and -- and -- but to think of a day to wake up with no to-dos and no place to go nothing but me-time. to breath and smile -- and miss everything about my crazy, busy life.

Slice of Life Stories hosted by the  Two Writing Teachers As long as I can remember, I've always been a reader. My mom shares a story of the day she spotted me at about five years old reading aloud to a small group of children in Sunday school.  I regularly go through phases of can't-put-a-book-down to quick magazine reads to blogs and emails to professional reading and then back to my nose in a book.  I'm always reading something. I am hoping to instill this love of reading with my two girls. We have lots (and lots) of books in the house.   Books upstairs and books downstairs.  Books in a basket on the dining room floor.  Books st...

Slice of Life Stories hosted by the  Two Writing Teachers BEEP!  BEEP!  BEEP! Thump. Drag, drag. Press snooze. Ah, snuggle in. y   A   W  n. S  t   r  e  t  c   h  ---- Rub, rub. Blink.  Blink.  Blink. It's Tuesday.  Oh, it's Tuesday! After a long weekend getaway  to the middle of Wisconsin,  completely disconnected from  the fast-paced-real-world, it's difficult to get readjusted. And it was worth it.

Slice of Life Stories hosted by the  Two Writing Teachers We have been in school now for a month, and I just started meeting with small groups last week.  I'm sure you are wondering what took so long, but our literacy resource team has been busy! Trust me, it's hard not starting the year meeting with students.  Can I tell you a little secret?  Some days I'd rather be meeting with students than with teachers! Instead, from day one, the literacy team has . . . Administered the district "quick and dirty" universal screener for almost 500 students Scored assessments and entered data into the data system Encouraged and shared resources for classroom teachers to uti...