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It’s okay, I’m a teacher

I’m reading The Lightning Thief for school – or at least, it started out that way. Now I’m reading it because it’s really good. I’m almost done, and I can’t put it down.
So I had it with me at the allergist’s office today, and was reading as I waited my 20 minutes [...]

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StoryWorks by Scholastic

Last year I bit the bullet and ordered one of those monthly magazines with my own money. I bought the minimum of 10 subscriptions. (Or was it 10 to get a prize? I don’t remember. ) We already received Time For Kids – which I love! – but we had to share it, and [...]

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Read Alouds

I’ve been reading a book to my class called All About Sam by Lois Lowry. It is hysterical!! It follows a little boy, Sam, from birth. The thing is, he can already think and reason, but when he tries to speak it comes out, “WAAAHHHH!” It is SO much fun to read, and the kids [...]

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Bonne Anniversaire!

Last summer I had this crazy idea to start a blog. I was tired of hearing people say how easy teaching is, and “you get three months off in the summer.” I knew I was working 45 to 50 hours a week, plus I did stuff in the summer. I was working just as much [...]

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25 Books

Two years ago there was a kid in my class, Lynyrd, who just refused to read anything. It was also the first year that we had to keep track of how many books the kids read because it was on the report card. The PA standard says 5th graders should read 25 books in a [...]

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Student Teaching Journal: Day 10

Warning, this is a long one!
Day 10:  Friday, August 20, 1999
We did the first book of the Leo Lionni author study today.  It was amazing.
This was a project my professor showed us in my Reading Practicum.  It had an art project to go with each story.  I bugged her so much for the [...]

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Student Teaching Journal: Day 9

Thursday, August 19, 1999
I brought The True Story of the Three Little Pigs for the story today to continue the 3 Little Pigs from yesterday. 

I love, love, love this book!  It started my “Fractured Fairy Tales” obsession.    Every year we would do a huge compare and contrast of all the Three Little Pigs [...]

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Student Teaching Journal: Day 8

Wednesday, August 18, 1999
Read-Aloud today was awesome.  Someone picked “The Three Little Pigs” and it was the version everyone knows.  Everyone said, “And I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.”  It was so great!    And then we had special effects – they huffed and puffed and almost blew me [...]

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Summer of Movies

Not doing so well with my summer reading pile. I’ve read quite a few fiction books, including some children’s novels. However, I have been catching up on my movies! So far I’ve seen Angels & Demons, The Proposal, Night at the Museum, Public Enemies, plus Twilight and Revolutionary Road on DVD. This may turn out [...]

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