Annie tackled a question many parents ask teachers at the end of the school year yesterday on her blog. Here's an excerpt of her post, which she has authorized me to reprint in this forum: Parents often ask me what they can do to make sure their children continue writing over the summer. Some children… Continue reading What Should A Child Write About Over the Summer?
Category: summer vacation
Where Do You Want to Go This Summer?
Professional Development can go hand-in-hand with a summer getaway! Think about seeing a new place and learning something too. Here's what other readers mentioned as great summertime p.d. opportunities to help you enhance your teaching of writing. Just click on the hyperlink to go straight to the website. ARIZONA NWP Professional Writing Retreat in mid-July.… Continue reading Where Do You Want to Go This Summer?
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Summer P.D.
I'm trying to compile a list of professional development opportunities for teachers. I posted about it last month and got a few responses (Thanks!). However, the list is short and certainly not comprehensive as it stands. Therefore, if you know of summer p.d. for teachers of writing, please post a comment on this post.
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Photo Fridays: An Opportunity to Write About Photographs
Late Sunset over Lake Winona Originally uploaded by teachergal I marveled, twice, about the fact that the sun sets later in Indiana than it does in Rhode Island (i.e. because it's on the western part of the Eastern Time Zone). Therefore, after Ruth, Christi, and I parted from Jen, Cathy, and Sarah, I detoured to… Continue reading Photo Fridays: An Opportunity to Write About Photographs
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Getting ready to send…
...handmade welcome cards to all of my students. This is what the backs of them look like: I kept it simple this year... a short note about me being their teacher and how I've been spending my summer. I also included a link to my class blog, which is a work in progress, to get… Continue reading Getting ready to send…
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Some are older… Some are newer…
My Summer (Professional) Reading Originally uploaded by teachergal These four books have been sitting in my bookshelf for the past year begging to be read. I've thumbed through Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction and Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum, but haven't read them with the careful, close reading they deserve. All four books are… Continue reading Some are older… Some are newer…
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Six Words: Day in a Sentence Challenge
Kevin challenged his blog readers to boil-down their day into one sentence. Since I'm heading into school today to box-up my stuff so that the cleaning crew has an easier time moving my furniture when they wax it later this summer, my sentiment is very simple: Packing up is hard to do. To learn more… Continue reading Six Words: Day in a Sentence Challenge
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Summer Challenge Packets Go Home W/My Kids Today
My students' Summer Literacy Challenge Packets are sitting in their mailboxes this morning, ready-to-go. I included a notebook, a pencil, a sticker, and two postage-paid, pre-addressed envelopes so that the kids will be able to send some of their responses to me over the summer if they decide to take-on the challenge. Keep your fingers… Continue reading Summer Challenge Packets Go Home W/My Kids Today
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Flipping My Schedule Upside Down
Today might be one of a handful of times I will ever teaching Writing Workshop after lunch when my kids come back from dance. (I LOVE teaching writing in the morning. When I was in NYC, my principal gave me special permission to do this since we were supposed to teach it in the afternoon.)… Continue reading Flipping My Schedule Upside Down
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WN Entry: How does one make sense of this statement: “He was his parents’ only child.”
A couple of weeks ago Ruth and I were on the phone when her husband came into the room and told her there was a tornado that touched down about 20 miles away. "Do you need to go?" I asked her. "No, it's okay," she replied in a cool, Midwestern way. 872 miles away, I… Continue reading WN Entry: How does one make sense of this statement: “He was his parents’ only child.”
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Summer Literacy Challenge for Kids
Jen Barney, of A Teacher's Life, posted a comment on a post I wrote a couple months ago about summer writing loss. Jen suggested that I give my students a Summer Adventure Packet. She graciously sent the one she used to me so that I could tweak it for my own use. This is what… Continue reading Summer Literacy Challenge for Kids
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There Isn’t Time… The Gates Are Closing… Teaching ’til the End…
Next Week: Agh!!!!!!!!!!! Originally uploaded by teachergal Farjeon wrote a poem called "There Isn't Time," which has always resonated with me since I try to multi-task all of the time -- sometimes successfully and sometimes I just don't get everything done. At the end of every school year, because I've got this demented idea that… Continue reading There Isn’t Time… The Gates Are Closing… Teaching ’til the End…
