I think the hardest part of getting back into blogging for me is deciding where to start. I've missed so much that I've been meaning to write about that I get overwhelmed thinking about how I can possibly catch up with everything. So in the end I … [Continue reading]
Our Word of the Week (WOW) this week is "career." The story I read to the class during this lesson is What Teachers Do When No One is Looking by Jim Grant and Irv Richardson. The book is actually written for adults as a sort of defense of the … [Continue reading]
This morning as the students were coming in, one of them greeted me with these words:"Somebody could've been killed! I went to a Chinese store and they offered me a broadsword."Yikes! … [Continue reading]
One of my favorite podcasts is Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. Today while listening to a new tip, I learned that "Internet" and "Web" should be capitalized, but "website" should not. It actually makes perfect sense when you … [Continue reading]
Today we talked about the word hero. I read the story Teammates which is about the friendship of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. If you don't know the story, it's about the season that Jackie Robinson first began playing for the Dodgers and the … [Continue reading]