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Published by Lanny Ball
For more than 30 years, Lanny has taught, coached, presented, staff developed, and consulted within the exciting and enigmatic world of literacy. With unyielding passion and belief in the possibility of workshop teaching, Lanny has worked to support students, teachers, and school administrators around the country in outgrowing themselves as both writers and readers. Working first as a classroom teacher, then as a coach and TCRWP Staff Developer, Lanny is now a literacy specialist, working and living in the great state of Connecticut. Outside of literacy, he enjoys raising his three ambitious young daughters with his wife, and playing the piano. Find him on this blog, as well as on Twitter @LannyBall. Lanny is also a former co-author of a blog dedicated to supporting writing teachers and coaches that maintain classroom writing workshops, twowritingteachers.org.
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I’m glad to be here today, remembering to post a Slice of Life on Tuesday. Today was an uncommonly busy day of work, but the great team I work with made it end on a happy note.
Thank you to my slicer friend Terje Akke from Estonia for always being such an inspiration through her words and photographs. I’m sharing one of her photos that led me to write #poemsofhope. Also, I’m announcing an annual global chat, “Poetry Soothes Souls during Troubled Times”. https://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2020/04/from-estonia-to-ny-nature-nurtures.html
Yesterday was a hard day: between miserable weather, trying to “master” distance teaching, and exhaustion due to lack of routine… but there was still joy. https://kouellette.com/choose-joy/
A zoom party 🙂
https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/everyday-moments-sol-2020-6/
A zoom party 🙂
https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/everyday-moments-sol-2020-6/
This is definitely harder than I thought it would be….
https://livinglife816287820.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/like-a-dreamy-ethereal-silken-scarf-time-just-floats-by/
What world do you want to live in?
http://iowaconflictedteacher.com/2020/04/14/what-world-do-you-want-sol20/
Read aloud by zoom. Different, but in many ways, still the best teaching moments.https://jarhartz.com/2020/04/15/read-aloud-reimagined/
Giving up
https://raivenne.com/2020/04/14/its-no-sacrifice/
Thanks to you all for my learning.
https://missivesfrommissouri.blogspot.com/2020/04/slice-of-life-4142020.html
So many things to write – I carry those seeds everywhere, don’t I? https://edsoapbox.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/emptying-my-pockets/
Lanny, what a perfect opening quote for today – thank you! Here are my uncamouflaged and very raw thoughts:
https://writingandlaughing.com/2020/04/14/so-what-is-this-experience-that-im-offering-my-students-soltuesday/
Home Alone https://gooddeids1.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/home-alone/
Leaning on William Carlos Williams today: https://tendingbulbs.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/the-forsythia-bush/
Let’s talk about nursery rhymes! 🙂
https://joodlesnowandthen.blogspot.com/2020/04/sol-tuesday-nursery-rhymes.html
Struggled to get anything written today…finally pushed through and talked about balancing my view
https://nixthecomfortzone.com/2020/04/14/balancing-the-view/
A small poem in Scottish Gaelic: https://deowriter.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/national-poetry-month-14-30-uisge-beatha/
Inspired by an infographic, I wrote a slice AND a poem about doodling.
https://ejohnson.school.blog/2020/04/14/npm-doodling-writing/
Am I nosy? Am I a stalker? Nah, just presiding over the neighborhood. https://mythmakersunite.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/presiding-over-the-neighborhood-sol-april-14-2020/
My slice today attempts to capture an amazing moment of connection in this time of social distancing: https://amyellerman.blog/2020/04/14/parade/.
Beautiful words 🙂
Passing It On
https://mashockn.wixsite.com/mysite/post/passing-it-on
I’ve been thinking a lot about creativity after starting a new book.
https://wahooliteracyteacher.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/thinking-about-creativity-sol20/
remembering my mother today – and perhaps she is thinking of me, too:
https://fireflytrails.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/years-upon-years/
What I remember…
https://justgiftslife.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/can-i-call-this-a-dream/
Because amidst the sadness that I’ve been feeling – I want to sing a new song…
https://carlambrown.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/my-melody/
Not a scam exactly, but I’d call it a shady business practice.
https://redemma1991.blogspot.com/2020/04/sol-tuesday-beware.html
Offering a poem for those in grief…
https://dailyscribbles.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/always-there/
It’s my spring break week
https://maureenyoungingram.blogspot.com/2020/04/spring-break.html
How lucky to see two dynamic birds in one walk?
https://moonsnailsdaisiesmarmots.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/mr-bluebird-and-ms-scissortail/
I’m glad to be here today, remembering to post a Slice of Life on Tuesday. Today was an uncommonly busy day of work, but the great team I work with made it end on a happy note.
https://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/2020/04/14/sweet-conversation-today/
Today I slice a memory poem (my first) inspired by the word I selected from Thoreau’s journal for today’s installment of my NPM project, #ThoreaulyInspired — Checkerberry. https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/checkerberry-thoreaulyinspired-npm-napowrimo-nationalpoetrymonth-progressivepoem-sol20/
I’ve been thinking of the Spanish Flu images that popped up as we started to finally wear masks in this era.
http://drferreri.blogspot.com/2020/04/sol20-april-14-lesson-learned.html
A recent journaling exercise revealed a mix(ed)tape memory.
https://seasonsofmccormick.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/mixtape-memory/
A fun poem inspired by Rita K. on Nurturing Literacy. Thanks, Rita.
Please stop by and read my poem, “Joy!”
And the link is…. https://one-writers-journey.com/2020/04/14/joy/
A fun poem inspired by Rita K. on Nurturing Literacy. Thanks, Rita.
Please stop by and read my poem, “Joy!”
I’ve be writing haikus most days of our isolation. Here are three. https://djvichos.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/poem-a-day/
Thank you to my slicer friend Terje Akke from Estonia for always being such an inspiration through her words and photographs. I’m sharing one of her photos that led me to write #poemsofhope. Also, I’m announcing an annual global chat, “Poetry Soothes Souls during Troubled Times”. https://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2020/04/from-estonia-to-ny-nature-nurtures.html
I wrote about how I am currently choosing books to read: https://thedirigibleplum.com/2020/04/14/a-new-kind-of-reading-challenge-slice-of-life-sol20/
Popular Past Posts…..why do we read what we read?https://theapplesinmyorchard.com/2020/04/14/slice-of-life-tuesday-popular-past-posts/
Thinking about how remote learning is going….http://kathleenneaglesokolowski.weebly.com/courage-doesnt-always-roar–blog/sol20-remote-learning-thoughts
Used an online video prompt by Jason Reynolds today to inspire my SOL.
https://readandwritebysally.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/inspired-by-jason/
A tornado memory from college, Friday, June 13th, 1975!
https://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/2020/04/slice-of-life-52stories-1552-tornado.html
With a Name Like “Funk”
Thinking about the many uses of my last name.
https://evolvingenglishteacher.blogspot.com/2020/04/with-name-like-funk-sol20.html?m=1
I’ve been AWOL for a long time, but I’ve been writing for poetry month… https://iheartpurplestuff.blogspot.com/2020/04/all.html
I mine the depths of the meaning of rebuke and my reactions to it in my life
https://friendswithoutid.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/rebuke/
Spring brings about many wonderful sights, but not all are welcome.
https://arjeha.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/spring-beauties/
Education and Analytics
https://wordsfromjl.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/education-and-analytics/
Eyes wide-open…again! https://jumpofffindwings.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/building-a-better-metaphor/
We are experiencing world wide remember whens in real time! Right now!!!
https://writintime.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/remember-whens/
I’m one frustrated fourth grade teacher…
https://thesassymightymissb.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/venting-frustrations/
Here’s the best advice I have heard about online teaching
https://booksandbassets.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/learning-to-navigate/
What I need most is to see a few more smiling faces…
https://readingteachsu.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/what-we-need-sol20/
A reflection on notebooks and writing partners
https://tammysreadinglife.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/notebooks-and-partners-sol20/
Inspiration for ways of thinking while teaching during COVID-19 developed while out on a run: https://reflectingonrecreation.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/thinking-like-a-scientist/
https://lgrainger125.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/invisible/
Worried about one soul
My messy work space inspired a poem / small moment
https://iblessings.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/sign-of-the-times-day-14-30-national-poetry-project-sol20/
How pushing play on the CD took me back in time…
https://oneblessedblock.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/a-piece-of-living-history/
Two versions of the view from my window
https://dianedou.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/the-view-from-my-window/
Yesterday was a hard day: between miserable weather, trying to “master” distance teaching, and exhaustion due to lack of routine… but there was still joy.
https://kouellette.com/choose-joy/
Take the time to find beauty in the everyday.https://writing4me.edublogs.org/2020/04/14/swimming-at-flinders/
It’s been a long time.
https://murphyslawblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/our-messy-middle/
Sunday was an especially hard day across the south. Easter celebrations were tempered by weather that didn’t recognize the holiday. https://timgels.com/2020/04/13/days-like-yesterday/
Birthday… https://standingtall47.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/where-in-the-world-birthday/
I am hosting the Kidlit Progressive Poem and have the next line choices up for Leigh Anne Eck to choose from. https://reflectionsontheteche.com/2020/04/14/progressive-poem-day-14-is-here/
April flowers fill my gardens!
https://lynnedorfmanblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/april-blooms/
I told you so….
https://sunshineovergreyskies.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-told-you-so.html
A benefit of being a rookie during this distance learning time – https://ebgriffin1119.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/side-by-side/
Have you experienced “sticker shock” lately? I was at the “cheap” grocery store . . .
https://franmcveigh.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/sol20-changes/
Poetry inspired by a friend’s purging of reference books; I won’t be doing the same: https://horizon51.blogspot.com/2020/04/tuesday-slice-not-just-words.html
Our family experienced a loss this week . . .
https://lannyball.com/2020/04/14/solsc-4-14-20/
I attempt to record the remote birthday moments…https://humbleswede.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/being-here-not-there/
A six-word story and an idea to connect students through writing virtually…
http://www.clarelandrigan.com/blog/every-writer-needs-a-reader-designing-virtual-response-spaces-for-writers-sol20-twtblog
An April 2020 Birthday
https://pushtowrite2020.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/april-8-2020/
I watched the rain, I sketched the rain, I found a poem…
https://dmsherriff.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/rain-worms/
I am trying to start healthier habits, what?!
https://msvictorreads.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/strange-times-indeed-when-i-voluntarily-exercise/
Snowing during the spring break.
https://justforamonth.blogspot.com/2020/04/winter-during-spring-break.html
Experimenting with different types of poetry – or maybe the poetry is experimenting with me. Here’s a blitz:
https://litbitsandpieces.com/2020/04/14/blitz-poem-track-the-love/
My oldest daughter is slicing this month for the student slice of life challenge. This makes it feel like March never ended! https://wheresthejoy.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-challenge-continues/
Have you ever wondered how things would change at dinnertime if you weren’t around for weeks on end? I got to find out: https://raisealithuman.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/what-is-he-doing-with-that-drumstick-sol20/.