Welcome to Slice of Life Story Challenge Tuesday! I wanted to share Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s quote with you today for a couple of reasons. One reason is writing our slice of life posts is a way we can pay attention to our lives and notice what topics and issues keep coming up for us. It’s a way to “pay attention to what you pay attention to.” The other reason is because this week, on April 29th, many people are honoring Amy Krouse Rosenthal on what would have been her birthday by engaging in random acts of kindness. Amy passed away in March after a battle with cancer, but her life and her writing inspire so many of us to keep alive her message of spreading loveliness and kindness. I am planning to have my class write letters to children in hospitals and mail them on Amy’s birthday. There is a Facebook group called MoreforAKR and you can see other beautiful ideas that people have planned for this day.
How will your writing beckon more loveliness into our world?
TWO WRITING TEACHERS 
A wonderful way to celebrate Amy’s life, thanks for sharing. People like Amy make this world a special place.
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EGADS!!!!! I’m a day late! 😦 http://briankissel.weebly.com/brians-blog.
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deciding what is important and worth keeping, and what gets in the way:
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http://vcvaile.blogspot.com/2017/04/yellow-umbrellas-and-paying-attention.html
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Cranky to have missed out on a fun evening. http://wp.me/pb2Ea-2om
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Impulse shopping…and one irrestible bin that gets me every time.
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it’s been a very busy day… http://redemma1991.blogspot.com/2017/04/sol-tuesday-busy-busy-busy.html
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Love Tuesdays! I get to share my slice with this great community!
http://ateachersruminations.blogspot.com/2017/04/pd-concerns.html
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Test week… so here’s a poem from a few days ago…hard to be creative today…
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There is joy in the process of creating:
http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2017/04/joy-in-creating.html
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Happy birthday Judy!
https://wordpress.com/post/middlemusingsblog.wordpress.com/1941
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Soooo, yesterday was my birthday… 🙂
http://blogs.ksbe.edu/legerboc/2017/04/25/birthday-reflection/
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I was invited to a city planning meeting because of my efforts as a volunteer, who is active in public transportation. https://bohemiotx.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/sol-17-city-planning-meeting/?iframe=true&theme_preview=true
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I liked the lesson gone awry slice. It looked like a good lesson to me. Actually, I’ve gotten worse reviews speaking in public than at school, probably because I got longer-winded, controversial, and not WASP enough!
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A lesson reflection. When things don’t work out. https://jarhartz.com/2017/04/25/slice-of-life-a-lesson-gone-awry/
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A soft place to land
https://thesassymightymissb.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/a-soft-place-to-land/
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Joy and Sorrow
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Awesome video turned out to be a theme lesson I needed to remember today.
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This is a testimony to my husband’s selflessness.
http://travelinma.blogspot.com/2017/04/forgive-me.html
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A poem made from song lyrics! (All about MONEY) I had fun connecting them together 🙂
(also a reflection afterwards)
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Stuck???
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Coming a little late to the dance. Slow Down! https://exploringwonderingwriting.wordpress.com/
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Discovering cologne:)
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Spring has me reflect on new beginnings. https://romeolitcoach.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/sadness-joy-and-hope/
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A little appreciation goes a long way: https://teachingwithmrsclark.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/spread-the-love/.
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Puppies, puppies, puppies!
http://joodlesnowandthen.blogspot.com/2017/04/sol-tuesday-puppies.html
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First Face
https://pelicansandprose.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/april-25-2017/
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https://literacywithlisa.com/
Got Grit? In teaching and in life…
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A piece in Spanish I wrote feeling a bit on the outside of culture in Colombia, ‘Ser Gringa’
https://strasskt.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/ser-gringa/
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In those moments…
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Written as a response to a student’s blog…..
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End of year teacher struggles https://teachworkoutlove.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/sol-testing-uploading/
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Pajamas mean different things to little girls than they do to me! https://timgels.com/2017/04/23/pajama-shopping/
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https://everythingineedtoknowilearnedinkindergarten.wordpress.com/
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Life got in the way and I forgot to write an enticing title……
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It’s testing season:
https://ateachinglifedotcom.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/slice-of-life-tuesday-testing-testing-testing/
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Continuing my alphabetic stroll through poetry. Who knew I would need two days for the letter V? Yesterday, it was verse novels, today it’s Sylvia Vardell. (Don’t worry, Amy Ludwig Vanderwater was featured for the letter Q!)
http://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/2017/04/slice-of-life-npm-day-26-letter-v-day-2.html
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Tanka Tuesday: bold Jumping Spider: https://deowriter.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/napowrimo-04252017/
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What I’ve learned about being a teacher who reads
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“Picking Daisies”
Yesterday I found a daisy in my classroom…
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We can stand together https://ureadiread.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/standing-up-slice-of-life/
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My student teaching is about over, and I’m bored.
https://midwesternamerican.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/closing-thoughts-on-student-teaching-or-a-journal-entry/
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How to Find a Writing Topic (Reluctant Writers on the Autism Spectrum), https://aileenhower.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/how-to-find-a-writing-topic-reluctant-writers-on-the-autism-spectrum/
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I got back Saturday from Texas Library Association Conference. I learned so much and had so much fun! http://mrstaylorstales.blogspot.com/2017/04/txla17.html
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Even though there are 24 hours in each day, time seems to pass by so quickly.
http://myreadingblog-jac.blogspot.com/2017/04/tuesday-sol-42517-thinking-about-how.html
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A final poem for April – inspiration from Billy Collins and Mary Oliver
https://imaginethepossibilitiesblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/in-the-card-store
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It’s moving week.
UGONANY
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What I’ve learned about procrastination
https://theapplesinmyorchard.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/what-ive-learned-about-procrastination/
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‘Twas the day before state testing….and I thought I was going to lose it-my class sure was.
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https://tammysreadinglife.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/ten-on-tuesday/
Trying to be more consistent with my blog posts – 10 for Tuesday!!!
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Here is a slice about a classroom mystery I had to solve.
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I try out a Golden Shovel poem after being inspired by Nikki Grimes’s ONE LAST WORD…http://hollymueller.blogspot.com/2017/04/slice-of-life-golden-shovel-poem.html
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Reading in a teepee
http://drferreri.blogspot.com/2017/04/sol17-to-read.html
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Life has been pretty crappy lately. My uncle died from cancer Saturday and my best friend was diagnosed with cancer yesterday (she’s 35). I don’t have much writing stamina at the moment, but I wrote a poem about how I’m feeling today.
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Here’s my spring break ten for Tuesday! https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/spring-break-ten-for-tuesday-sol/
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The rainy season keeps going on!
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Pondering about my electronic writing – seeking tips on keeping it.
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A limerick for a kind neighbor. https://reflectionsontheteche.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/slice-of-life-good-neighbor-limerick/
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I offer a list of suggestions for revision work from Barry Lane.
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Life
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Wondering why
https://dianeandlynne.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/why-not/
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April is Poetry month and I got a new bike!
http://coachbsreflections.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-cinquain-celebrating-new-bicycle.html
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On not aging
http://maryannreilly.blogspot.com/2017/04/sol17-on-not-aging.html?m=1
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We’re one week into Book Madness! Here’s how this experience is going so far…
https://themagicofreflection.blogspot.com/2017/04/5th-grade-book-madness-week-2.html?m=1
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Asking questions and looking for answers… http://1gratefulteacher.blogspot.com/2017/04/questions-and-answers.html
Thanks for the AKR quote! Hope to see lots more slicers join the Facebook group!
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We are finally listening to the radio in the car… and I couldn’t be happier!
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Sometimes certain scents take me back in time. Does this ever happen to you too?
http://sweetwritinglife.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-scents-of-life-sol-42517.html
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Sharing and cherishing the signs from above…
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If you are looking for cheery inspiration, scroll on past. Musings on painful realities:
http://couragedoesnotroar.blogspot.com/2017/04/reality-bites-sol17.html
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Missed photo op… or was it?
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Musings about my spring break at home
http://myiearlychildhoodreflections.blogspot.com/2017/04/tuesday-sol-is-it-already-past.html
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, Erika! Food has a way of bubbling up memories! I hope to use this one as an inspiration for Monday writing in a second grade classroom or, selfishly, my own writing!!
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It’s a complete coincidence that my writing today was inspired by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I had no idea that her birthday was this week of that TWT would be celebrating her this week. Pretty cool.
https://poonam1.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/food-from-my-childhood/
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Living with two educators — it ain’t easy
http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2017/04/25/slice-of-life-check-your-spelling-chalkboy/
Kevin
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Writing poems with first graders:
https://readingtothecore.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/slice-of-life-song-of-the-butterflies/
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Amazing story of your collaborative work! The imprint you are leaving on teachers is changing how teachers see children, children’s work, and the expectations! Let’s keep sprinkling!
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What happens when we raise the bar? https://wheresthejoy.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/what-happens-when-we-raise-the-bar/
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Saying good-bye…sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes not so much.
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Encouraging teachers . . . Advice for new teachers and veteran teachers . . . What would you add?
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A slice of science from yesterday or why you shouldn’t tell your child that babies grow in their mothers’ stomachs
https://mbhmaine.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/science-reading/
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Making connections in my second grade class.
http://juliettesgifts.blogspot.com/2017/04/connectionsmade-inmy-second-grade-class.html
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It’s important to encourage young writers to step into the unknown, by going there yourself.
http://livinglifetwice-alwrite.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/slice-of-life-tuesday-stepping-into.html
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My earliest post ever; a poem: http://horizon51.blogspot.com/2017/04/tuesday-slice-earliest-post-ever.html
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Love the prompt. I’m inspired to do a little more than usual. And for the slice today? One last poetic slice for the time being. I like this one; http://iheartpurplestuff.blogspot.com/2017/04/needs.html
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One more poem this final week of April, and the why: http://www.teacherdance.org/2017/04/sol17-npm17-poem-25-of-30-back-to-nature.html
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If it moves me, it moves me…
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Back roads and a lingering town, a glimpse of yesteryear. http://alicenine.net/greenwood-texas/
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I paid attention to reading two things in the last week. Then, I wrote a third thing. http://cast-of-characters.blogspot.com/2017/04/worship-testify.html
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My post today is about paying attention/not paying attention to things. It’s not in the serious vein quoted above, but a more humorous comment on the things we gain and lose.
(P.S. I try to do as many random acts of kindness as I can; cancer teaches you how important it is to do that for yourself and for others.)
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First? YES!!!! https://digitalbonnie.me/2017/04/24/letters-to-tuvia-y2-still-in-the-weeds-4-24-17sol17/
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