Literacy Learning Zone

The Slice of Life is hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ I'm having a hard time today with writing a slice of life.  I start writing.  Then delete.  I write more.  And then delete.  The stories are just not ready to be shared.  I'm still finding the moments, the words, and the messages. My brain is full of so much more.  You know what I'm talking about.  There is a lot going on during the end of the year.   End of the year benchmarking.  Team meetings.  Documentation of instruction and learning.  Celebrations.  To do lists.  All the while I try not to count down the days. And

This is our fifth annual #cyberPD summer learning event and we are more excited than ever!   Our #cyberPD group has a new meeting place --  #cyberPD Google Community   --  and  Cathy Mere ,   Laura Komos , and I are anticipating  YOU  joining our community and conversations. _______________________________________________________________ It's almost that time of year.  School is quickly coming to a close.  A little extra free time is in the near future.  There will be time for sleeping in.  There will be time for vacations and get-a-ways.  There will be time to just sit and chat.  There will be time to slow down life.   And there will be lots of time to read.    Early in the morning.  The whole afternoon.  Late into the night.   Whether it's picture books, MG books, YA books, or even a PD book or two.   Uninterrupted time to just read.     I know you.  You will be reading a PD book over the summer.   That book that will make you think differently about your class

The Slice of Life is hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ How is it that I am counting down the days in panic? There is still so much to do before that last day when we wave goodbye for summer.  Praying that I helped hook my readers into reading to continue throughout the long, hot days of "There's nothing to do ..." Yet, I was able to smile amid these last stressful days. You see, a fourth grade student that I work with during intervention time wanted to share a book. Jaden sat down and immediately opened his book. "What are you reading?" I inquired. "

The Slice of Life is hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ This Mother's Day I received two special gifts. One.  The BIG gift of time.  My husband took our now five year old daughters for a couple hours in the afternoon so that I could have some time for me.  In a moment like that, it's quite sad to say that I almost didn't know what to do with myself!  My initial thought was to open up my school bag that I drag home every day but rarely touch.  But I didn't.  Then I thought I should just start a load of laundry, do the dishes and clean off the counter.  Nope, I walked away. I found myself on the couch.  I learned more abou

The Slice of Life is hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ Birthday Celebrations My baby girls, who will always be my baby girls, were born on May first.  We celebrated their fifth birthday last Friday.  I now have five year olds daughters. And I cried the night before their birthday. I sobbed in my husband's arms.  I cried asking him to pray together for them.  The more I thought about it, the more tears that streamed down my cheeks wetting the pillow.  I may have cried myself to sleep the night before ... But by morning, the tears dried up, and it was all celebrations!  A joyo