Reading Camp - Week 2

Today I begin my second reading camp for the summer and I can't wait! I have two children that are going into 1st grade and five heading into second (one of which has special needs and is reading on a K level). What a wonderful mixture of students and abilities!
What a delight! I hope your summer teaching and adventures are as exciting as mine!!

Getting to Know You

What a wonderful idea for a 'getting to know you' project at the beginning of the school year. Young students could take this project home to discuss their hobbies/interests and spend as much time as they wish adding details. What a perfect project for drawing out your students' artistic skills (along with supporting students that want/need to express themselves pictorially instead of through writing). Can't you just imagine how lovely these would look lining the hallways at school?! Beautiful!

Today...

Today is my uncle's birthday. I am the luckiest girl in the world to be related to this lovely man.

He grew up in a time when the public (and his teachers) did not understand Autism.

He is part of the reason I became an educator. I hope I can be the teacher he had always wished for and deserved.

UPDATE: An app for your books

Sooo... the app I used to use for my classroom books started giving me grief, so I made a clean break and found a new curator of my collection. Now I am in LOVE with Book Crawler.

 

It's fabulous because you can scan books in with your camera/barcode, you can set categories of how you organize your collection, you can search by collection/author/title, and if you are a real go-getter, you can share your thoughts with a community of other book fanatics.

Check it out!

GONE.

I flew out to LA last week and lost my luggage.
Ug.
Gone.
Never to be seen again.
Some lucky duck now has my entire make up bag, prescription glasses, only jeans that fit, two best dresses and (WORST OF ALL) two of my journals.
So I'd like to take a moment to apologize to the world that my two journals, chalked full of ideas that were going to change the world, are now floating somewhere around LAX.
I can only hope some size 6, (very) far-sighted chick out there can truly appreciate a good eyelash curler and 3 inch cork-heels, is being entertained by reading my last three years of academic and personal writing.
Sigh.

Excuse me while I go buy a new journal.