OH NOOOO!!!
I was all set to write about my last few days when I read about the Garden Gnome Liberation Front! I thought immediately about Weasley, but then I realized that he was in my yard, not on my front lawn, and he does a great job of disappearing! In fact I had a hard time finding him, but there he was,
hiding in the plumeria.
Yesterday I went to an all day district workshop for the remedial reading program I'm teaching (called Language!) It was really a good workshop, since we shared practical strategies for teaching these middle school below grade level (at least 2 years) students how to read. Many of them just missed qualifying for special ed, others missed too much time at school when reading was being taught, or went to several different elementary schools so there was no continuity in what they were learning. They've developed a variety of coping skills, none of which work in my class, since there are only a few (15 and 19) students in the room and all we are working on is reading. This in turn causes some of them to act out in very negative behavior. It's been a real challenge needless to say. But the workshop gave me some really good ideas and it's always encouraging to talk with other teachers who are dealing with the same issues.
Yesterday (it was today when I actually started this post) I went to the first follow up meeting from the Inland Area Writing Project Summer Institute I attended this summer at UCR. It was great to meet with the other fellows, catch up, and find out that I wasn't the only one who hadn't been writing very much. All of the fellows are teachers, elementary, middle, and high school and the beginning of the year has been busier than usual for everyone. I really do need to work on a few pieces I started. I am putting a few of them on my webpage (one or the other)
How about Meatloaf?! and the new iPod commercial!
I realize that this is a rather long entry. I actually started this last evening, but my dear h. insisted I shut the computer around midnight. Today I have been working on my site (the .mac site) and that is another story. Twenty minutes alone on trying to get a link to load correctly! Ah well, I just saw Russell Crowe's interview on CBS as I'm typing this. Oh yeah...
There's nothing else to say right now (of course there is, but for some reason I seem to be distracted)..............Do
hiding in the plumeria. Yesterday I went to an all day district workshop for the remedial reading program I'm teaching (called Language!) It was really a good workshop, since we shared practical strategies for teaching these middle school below grade level (at least 2 years) students how to read. Many of them just missed qualifying for special ed, others missed too much time at school when reading was being taught, or went to several different elementary schools so there was no continuity in what they were learning. They've developed a variety of coping skills, none of which work in my class, since there are only a few (15 and 19) students in the room and all we are working on is reading. This in turn causes some of them to act out in very negative behavior. It's been a real challenge needless to say. But the workshop gave me some really good ideas and it's always encouraging to talk with other teachers who are dealing with the same issues.
Yesterday (it was today when I actually started this post) I went to the first follow up meeting from the Inland Area Writing Project Summer Institute I attended this summer at UCR. It was great to meet with the other fellows, catch up, and find out that I wasn't the only one who hadn't been writing very much. All of the fellows are teachers, elementary, middle, and high school and the beginning of the year has been busier than usual for everyone. I really do need to work on a few pieces I started. I am putting a few of them on my webpage (one or the other)
How about Meatloaf?! and the new iPod commercial!
I realize that this is a rather long entry. I actually started this last evening, but my dear h. insisted I shut the computer around midnight. Today I have been working on my site (the .mac site) and that is another story. Twenty minutes alone on trying to get a link to load correctly! Ah well, I just saw Russell Crowe's interview on CBS as I'm typing this. Oh yeah...
There's nothing else to say right now (of course there is, but for some reason I seem to be distracted)..............Do
posted by Summer Writers at 12:04 AM
1 Comments:
Yummy yummy yummy Russell Crowe. Slurping noises...
Fi
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