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The eleventh annual Slice of Life Challenge starts up on March 1. For an overview of how this great event works, please link up to Stacey’s post that she published yesterday. Also, we are looking for experienced slicers to be part of the Welcome Wagon. Please link to Deb’s post in order to fill out the form and help us welcome newcomers to our community.
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Love being on the water sailing!
moonsnailsdaisiesmarmots.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/sailing-in-the-bay/
A day late and a dollar short, but here it is anyway: my #olw18
iowaconflictedteacher.com/2018/01/24/my-olw2018-perseverance-sol18/
winder crochet: https://deowriter.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/sol18-crochet-meditation/
Made it and right at the last minute!
https://elisawaingort.com/2018/01/24/10-minutes-of-uninterrupted-writing/
Making a joyful noise with my OLW…
https://insiderecessagain.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/choir-connections/
Reflections: Life at 🏠 in #YumaCO 🚜 & online 💻 #sol18 ☀️. Name and header changed, still the same blog, https://vcvaile.blogspot.com/2018/01/life-at-in-yumaco-online-sol18.html
If only we could follow the trail of our thoughts. It would be an interesting observation. Somehow a cold day led me to a Kramer moment.
http://imlivingmywords.blogspot.com/2018/01/train-of-thought-cold-to-kramer.html
Have you ever made maple taffy? We did today.
We had a small snag though. We lost the pan. Do you see the pan?
http://trivediziemba.edublogs.org/2018/01/23/doucthepan/
Reminded tonight, of the importance of our first amendment rights.
https://middlemusingsblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/the-post/
Reminded tonight, the importance of our first amendment rights.
middlemusingsblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/the-post/
https://pelicansandprose.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/january-23-2018/
A small offering
Looking for the beauty in our incessant rain!
https://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/2018/01/slice-of-life-delighting-in-rain.html
Have you ever been to Manhattan? It is a lively place as evidenced by my Sunday stroll. http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-manhattan-winter-day.html
A Little Bit of Winter
https://wordsfromjl.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/a-little-bit-of-winter/
I loved the essays in Time Magazine from Matt de la Peña and Kate DiCamillo.
http://tworeflectiveteachers.blogspot.com/2018/01/slice-of-life-picture-books-and.html
Glad my phone call didn’t squelch your slice!
I don’t like my ending. That’s okay though because it will be revised when it comes to me. Tonight’s post is inspired by my students-Revising-What’s That? https://fallhugs.blogspot.com/2018/01/revision-whats-that.html
http://simplylearningtogether.blogspot.com/2018/01/slice-of-life-writing-like-9-year-old.html
I wrote my 9 year old’s assignment with him tonight.
This one is a bit of a downer – sorry!!
https://myiearlychildhoodreflections.blogspot.com/2018/01/tuesday-sol-why-does-it-have-to-be-like.html
A short piece from the blog today: Share the Book Love! https://stephanieaffinito.blogspot.com/2018/01/share-book-love.html
More lessons learned and heart strings pulled…
https://aromasofmylife.com/2018/01/21/one-of-the-best-nights-of-my-life/
In just a (scary) second. . . https://onathought.com/2018/01/23/a-slice-of-a-second/
Are you facing the same daily challenge as me?
https://wp.me/p2fY1t-1do
The challenges of getting a new computer.
https://myreadingblog-jac.blogspot.com/2018/01/tuesday-sol-12318-new-computer-and.html
Playing to learn with Literacy Unbound: http://portable-teacher.blogspot.sg/2018/01/literacy-unbound.html
There’s only one thing I uncomfortable about going back and subbing. https://deb-day.blogspot.com/2018/01/not-my-room-anymore.html
a little chat about cookies and chandeliers
https://readingteachsu.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/pov-sol18/
SNOW SNOW SNOW! You might think after 15 years in Canada I’d understand it better.
Sorry…forgot the link. https://alotalot.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/slice-of-snowy-life/
I love listening to my students-they always put a smile on my face!
https://wahooliteracyteacher.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/random-conversations-sol18/
This slice was exciting to write, but I ended up crying and wanting to write more, but I am out of time. I hope you enjoy it: https://iheartpurplestuff.blogspot.com/2018/01/nothings-wrong.html
I love visiting classrooms and listening to the students. Yesterday I had a short unplanned visit to first grade.
https://justforamonth.blogspot.com.ee/2018/01/the-best-part-of-being-principal.html
Bluebonnet Book voting failure. http://mrstaylorstales.blogspot.com/2018/01/bluebonnet-voting-gone-wrong.html
Decided to change it up, after my last couple of slices have been loonnggg. Today, here are my six word stories.
http://blogs.ksbe.edu/legerboc/2018/01/23/six-word-stories/
Even though it is January, some summer plans are already made.
https://arjeha.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/broadway-here-we-come/
The storm found me. https://couragedoesnotroar.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-storm-sol18.html
A little word play on the loss of a favorite pair of shoes. https://mrspalmerponders.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/wounded-soles/
An earthquake can ruin your whole day.
http://klabonte.net/sol18-an-earthquake-can-ruin-your-whole-day/
Blogging Challenges, Prompts, and Patterns
https://theapplesinmyorchard.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/share-your-world-syw-1-23-18-for-a-slice-of-life-sol18-post/
A difficult day.
http://kfilewych.edublogs.org/
Still struggling to “transition” to new digital devices.” Read about my Digital Distress in today’s post!
https://barbarasut.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/digital-distress/
My journey…retirement has not been an easy one for me…but this is new how I’m feeling today. xo nanc
https://wordpress.com/post/twoyearsandfinishingstrong.wordpress.com/1316
wrong link — use this one, https://twoyearsandfinishingstrong.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/working-from-home/
I’ll leave a note on your blog post
Back to basics: https://teachingwithmrsclark.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/sentence-boot-camp/
Movie Season 🙂
https://wp.me/p3Gehh-4yY
I am an observer at the park. https://lcinmo.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/at-the-park/
The PS Brothers – https://itsallaboutkidsandliteracy.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/the-melancholy-of-reading-a-lli-book-for-the-last-time/
My life with eczema
https://booksandbassets.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/eczemania/
An idea I am very excited about! I hope to write more about this topic!
Magic is a wonderful thing!
https://tammysreadinglife.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/its-not-magic-but-it-feels-like-it-sometimes-sol18/
Grateful for a place to share my winter malaise and… it’s antedote
https://vanessaw2007.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/winter-malaise-an-antedote/
A sick day helps me think about what it takes to write
https://coachbsreflections.blogspot.com/2018/01/writing-takes-energy.html
Ahhhh. Right link is https://franmcveigh.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/sol18-process-product/
What to write? Stuck? How to “Get it down. Take a chance.” Some days the struggles are real. How do we respond?
franmcveigh.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/sol18-process-product/
Getting the hang of this daily writing thing! https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/its-working-sol18/
“Half-Way Reader” http://evolvingenglishteacher.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-half-way-sol18-aplitchat.html?m=1
Do you start books you never finish? I do, and that’s the subject of this week’s post.
Quite Obsessed: https://aileenhower.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/quite-obsessed/
My sleeping dog dreams, and I chase the rabbits … a journey of thought: https://litbitsandpieces.com/2018/01/23/to-dream-to-write-perchance-to-connect/
I was an ILL (Italian language learner) who didn’t master the language. Is it holding me back now? http://horizon51.blogspot.com/2018/01/tuesday-slice-then-and-now.html
The Change in Challenge
https://msvictorreads.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/the-change-in-challenge-a-short-reflection/
Nothing deep here. A truly thin slice…https://humbleswede.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/keyless-in-bethesda
I’m rethinking how I give feedback – https://ebgriffin1119.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/rethinking-feedback/
Joining SOL to keep my commitment to write consistently this year! http://www.texasschoolmarm.com/leweybody/
A slice of my writing life and its meandering trajectory from nature walks to mystery pods to rabbit holes –creative procrastination! https://mbhmaine.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/nature-walks-mystery-pods-rabbit-holes-and-procrastination/
To teach or not to teach — is it okay to simply respond to a writer?
http://assessmentinperspective.com/?p=5267
Collaboration with the Kid (my son and I record a song)
http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/01/23/slice-of-life-collaboration-with-the-kid/
Kevin
runner, reader, writer, teacher – they all pulled this one together
https://dmsherriff.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/it-always-comes-back-to-balance/
Some Musings from the cyclone bomb: https://wheresthejoy.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/bomb-cyclone-musings/
I don’t know where I’d be — as a parent or as an educator — if it weren’t for my PLN.
https://raisealithuman.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/writinggrowth/
Laundry lands on slice night! https://cast-of-characters.blogspot.com/2018/01/unmentionables-allegory-maybe.html
I haven’t written for ages, but am happy to be back contributing to the Slice of Life section of your inspirational website. It’s interesting how right out of left field you can be moved by a word, an image or a movie to consider it in a new and personal light as an inspiration for your teaching practice. This is what happened to me the other night … http://writing4me.edublogs.org/2018/01/23/the-dressmaker-and-the-teacher/