Literacy Learning Zone

Slice of Life is  hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ Choose kind. I've have tried to share that mantra in our home ever since I read the book Wonder when it was first published.  It's quite honestly a good reminder for us all.  Choose kind, always.  These are important words outside in the real world, but recently more so IN our home.  The girls are just about seven years old and they are sisters, so sometimes words or their tone of voice is, well, not-so-kind. My daughters' school is also encouraging kindness through their Kindness Campaign.  They ha

Slice of Life is  hosted  at the  Two Writing Teachers Join in and share a slice of your life.  _____________________________________________________ Each Tuesday of this new year has come and gone. All seven of them. I was able to squeeze in three slices in January. Life has been busy.  I've been living in all the BIG moments. Home and school consuming every moment. Life is good, but busy. Always on the go just being busy.   I thought about writing. I wanted to write. I would open up my laptop. Then my eyes would close. This whole balancing life is difficult.  And, therefore,  time, energy, and my story did not coincide.   "But here I come,"