Tuesday, the sun shone brightly on the hills around the school. The snow blanketing the highest points sparkled like diamonds while the brown of the lower elevations looked like a … Continue Reading Slice of Life #sol16 Elevation
I stumbled upon another Slice of Life blogger today: Carol Varsalona whose Just for Fun post explains her iMovie Photo Gallery technique. Such beautiful images. I love to create movies in iMovie — … Continue Reading Slice of Life #sol16 Just for Fun
“How do you group the images?” Student runs across the room and demonstrates. “I can’t get the color to change.” Teacher demonstrates. “Enibe knows how to change the color … Continue Reading Slice of Life Heard in Class
A3: I love that students catch a vision for learning w/o the threat or reward of grades hanging over their heads. #geniushour #SoFLEdChat — Denise Krebs (@mrsdkrebs) February 12, … Continue Reading Slice of Life SOL Friend’s Quote
Today I watched Part 1 of FRed Talks [Find Real Education] after the amazing presentation by Eric Curts at Classroom Live 2.0 about Google Drawings. Every one of those links helped … Continue Reading Slice of Life Blended Learning
SOL Friday It’s Friday. Kids are glad school is done for the week, and teachers are glad for a break. But is it a break? Papers to grade, lessons to … Continue Reading Slice of Life SOL Fridays
March 2nd Buttercups With every Spring Creator brings A yellow bright Chasing fright as petals of hopefulness bring smiles of happiness Signs of Spring Joy will bring. Every year when … Continue Reading SOL Buttercups Spring Memories
What’s your favorite breakfast? I like to break my fast with scrambled eggs. I don’t want any fluff for breakfast, not that silly rabbit’s Trix in it’s bright pink package … Continue Reading Scrambled Secrets #sol
Thanks to Two Writing Teachers for an engaging month of stories, slices of our lives shares, read, and discussed. Internet is down, and may not get this posted. Now it … Continue Reading #sol15 thanks
Home. 9:55 PM Grading. Projects for grade eight. Projects for grade seven. Ongoing feedback and student revision. √ Check √ Check Elaboration grade 6 √ Details, dialogue, description, simile, action … Continue Reading #sol15 Bummer Missed Slice Again
Parent Information is so important. We’ve added this station to our foyer and plan to enlarge it. Schedules, handbooks, health brochures, testing information all have a place for easy discovery. … Continue Reading #sol15 Parent Information
I love forget-me-nots. Five tiny skyblue petals Tiny beautiful Reminders To Stop Sigh At the little things. Found flourishing in the governor’s garden, they are but small clumps on our … Continue Reading #sol15 West side rain
I love trees. I hate it when they are chopped down or topped, cropped off to stumped branches– I believe the trees feel pain then, as I cringe when I … Continue Reading #sol15 a tree grows
Governor Jay Inslee hosted a dinner at the Governor’s mansion in Olympia for newspaper publishers. From Eastern Washington as my husband [newspaper publisher] and I are, he cheers for EWU Eagles! … Continue Reading #sol15 Dinner with the Gov
Spring sends mornings Still clutching winter; A pause in hope to prick our thanks of sun, A hope that spreads, Still with warmth Spring sends afternoons. Image: Photo and poetry by … Continue Reading #sol15 Frost
Regional Volleyball tournaments in Spokane brought a busy weekend for my granddaughter and because it’s so close — we got to go too. It was awesome watching all the games … Continue Reading #sol15 Gramma’s Weekend