Welcome to our weekly writing challenge! I’m delighted you’re here to link up your slice of life story!
The 14th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge will begin in less than a month! If you’re planning to participate, watch this space weekly this month for special announcements and links to relevant blog posts about the March challenge.
Announcements:
- The participant information form — for anyone who wants to participate in the March challenge — went live on January 29th. (Click here to fill it out now.) We’re asking participants to complete this form no later than 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, March 1st, 2021 in order to be in the running for prizes. This form will close on the morning of Tuesday, March 2nd. In keeping with the spirit of a month-long challenge, it is important to participate fully all thirty-one days.
- More importantly, we want all new Slicers to be partnered up with a Welcome Wagon volunteer by March 2nd. Closing down the participant information form at the end of the first day of the March Challenge means that we won’t be pairing people up for a week.
- Click here to sign up to be a member of our Welcome Wagon.
- If you have a friend, family member, or colleague who is planning to participate in the SOLSC for the first time, then please make sure they fill out the Participant Information Form between now and March 1st.
- Many potential new Slicers dip their toe into the water on Tuesdays in February.
- If you’re a first-time Slicer, please make note of that when you leave the permalink to your blog post.
- If you’re a longtime Slicer, please make an effort to commenting on at least one new blogger’s post today. If you don’t see anyone new when you link up, then click on someone’s link who is new to you!
Be Inspired:
ICYMI: Eight year-round Slicers, Betsy Hubbard, and I chatted about the upcoming month-long Slice of Life Story Challenge this past Sunday. If you know someone who’s thinking about joining the challenge, but isn’t quite sure, then please share the recording of our Facebook Live Session with them.
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Strolling through old photos…sometimes I’m interested in the people, sometimes I’m trying to figure out where the picture was taken.
https://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/2021/02/slice-of-life-photo-stories.html
Anyone else get a little too ambitious signing up for challenges?
https://nerdsbegetnerds.org/2021/02/02/no-more-challenges-challenge/
Another edition of the Tuesday Slice of Life:
https://sabeenabbasblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/tuesday-sol-sticking-to-the-plan-sort-of/
It’s an amazing experience to teach in an unconventional environment with people you think are different only to recognize how much you are the same. I’ve been both teacher and student in the company of amazing refugee women who kindly invited me in https://carlambrown.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/they-invited-me-in/
It’s amazing how teaching in an unconventional environment with people you think are different can remind you how much you are actually the same. I learned to be both the teacher and the student when these women from all over the world – invited me in.
https://carlambrown.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/they-invited-me-in/
My apologies for the double post – I thought it didn’t take! ~Carla Michelle
Sometimes I think my brother ended up with all the talent. Sometimes.
https://mardemeditaciones.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/in-search-of-more-color-sol/
A Fairly Uneventful Day, Until…
https://teacherreaderwriter.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-fairly-uneventful-day-until.html
We talked about the groundhog today: https://alotalot.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/slice-of-life-prognostication/
Hello Slicers,
What started out as a somewhat serious and kinda dull post took on a life of its own.
And that’s why I love to write! You never know where you’ll end up!
https://elisawaingort.com/2021/02/03/the-perfect-day/
Writing about snow.
https://arjeha.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/thoughts-about-snow/
Flit, flitting, flitted: what’s in a word? https://timgels.com/2021/02/02/to-flit/
When is it time to let a set of books go? What does it mean if we offer our readers tattered books? I think a lot about disrupting texts, but today’s dilemma was about something else. https://persistenceandpedagogy.com/2021/02/02/i-threw-them-out/
Strolling down winter’s memory lane: https://kathleenneaglesokolowski.weebly.com/courage-doesnt-always-roar–blog/sol21-winters-present-and-past
a poem about what really matters: https://voiceoftheuntethered.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/nothing-else-really-matters/
The Slice of LIfe LIve or Yikes, They’ll See My Face! 🙂
https://iowaconflictedteacher.com/2021/02/02/the-slice-of-life-live-or-yikes-theyll-see-my-face-sol21/
Celebrating a student who discovered his identity as a poet!
http://litcoachconnection.com/light-is-an-ice-fishing-poet/
I just finished reading The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson,
https://maureenyoungingram.blogspot.com/2021/02/others-as-us.html
Changing up the narrative a little in terms of what kids are learning: https://justwritemelanie.blogspot.com/2021/02/slice-of-life-celebrating-faces-on.html
A rare reflection on hope (I should do it more often!)
https://amyilene.home.blog/2021/02/02/excited-by-possibility/
2nd grader to me: “Princess, you is NOT dumb. Maybe you do dumb things, but Princess, you. is. not. dumb.”
https://multifacetedmusings.com/2021/02/02/slice-of-life-you-is-not-dumb/
I’m always learning new words from my students. Daily reminders I was born in the 1900s…
https://jenniebblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/sol2021-adding-to-my-vocabulary/
It’s ok to think of spring in mid-winter.
https://justforamonth.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-are-you-looking-forward-to-in.html
Procrastination – writing and art
https://wordsfromjl.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/procrastination-writing-and-art/
And the winner is…https://jumpofffindwings.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/not-so-super-bowl-and-yet/
It’s time to consider school board candidates. Here are my thoughts:
https://theapplesinmyorchard.com/2021/02/01/educational-leadership-on-the-line/
Do you read the obituaries? You can learn a lot-
https://pencilonmybackporch.home.blog/2021/02/02/have-you-heard-of-george-carruthers/
What happens when you find yourself becoming part of a familiar community? You embrace it.
https://thesassymightymissb.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/ties-that-bind/
A wonderful quote 🙂
https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/everyday-moments-sol-2020-43/
So much to learn from the chocolate stash in the copy room… https://edsoapbox.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/slice-of-life-tuesday-lessons-from-the-chocolate-stash/
What do spider monkeys and nicknames have in common?
https://talesinajar.blogspot.com/2021/02/spider-monkeys-slice-of-life.html
http://thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com/2021/02/slice-of-life-tuesday-mystery-gift.html
Yesterday I received a mystery gift.
I am addicted to the Kids Baking Championship on Food Network!
https://wahooliteracyteacher.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/the-kids-baking-championship-sol21/
What are the RIGHT tools for a task? Thinking through some outside tasks . . .
https://franmcveigh.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/sol21-tools/
Have you read Katherine Bomer’s, The Journey is Everything? It really opened my eyes about essays!
I thought I had an appointment. Apparently, I was mistaken.
https://booksandbassets.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/best-laid-plans/
I have learned so many life lessons from my snow blower. Here’s the newest lesson!
https://iblessings.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/language-barrier/
A growing class… https://standingtall47.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/6-14/
Thoughts about Black History Month – https://ebgriffin1119.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/im-in/#comments
We should all give ourselves some credit. A ta-da list helps: https://horizon51.blogspot.com/2021/02/tuesday-slice-ta-da-list.html
a teach issue had me flustered on FB live, so i turned to slicing….
https://dmsherriff.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/in-the-ear-feedback/
On memory, the power of moments, and a bowl of snow:
https://litbitsandpieces.com/2021/02/02/a-bowl-of-snow/
Losing a loved one is never easy . . .
https://lannyball.com/2021/02/02/tuesday-slice-of-life-story-challenge-2/
I needed a little jingle today!
https://msvictorreads.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/some-days-just-require-a-little-jingle/
Slice of Life: Highly Efficient But Suddenly Forgetful
https://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2021/02/02/slice-of-life-highly-efficient-but-suddenly-forgetful/
Kevin
I’m not up to writing everyday for a month but I will drop by to cheer the particpants along. here’s my slice for today.
https://obsessivemom.in/2021/02/making-time-to-write.html
Time to concede that this child is coming of age, capable of tackling the complex.
https://soansrezones.home.blog/2021/02/02/the-karmic-destiny/
This week, I sent one of my distance learners back to school and it made me realize just how attached to these kids I have become: https://wheresthejoy.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/attached/
As we approach the March SOL challenge, I’m reflecting on 10+ years of blogging and the ways I approach creating a post.
https://evolvingenglishteacher.blogspot.com/2021/02/more-than-decade-of-blogging-what-ive.html?m=1
I watched the evolution of SnowStorm 2021 today as it opened so gently and then roared: https://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2021/02/winter-snowblast-2021.html.
Oh, how we needed a real snow day! AND WE GOT IT!
https://raisealithuman.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/realsnowday/